Do The Facts of Voting Rights Support Chief Justice Roberts’s Opinion in Shelby County?
In June, 2013, a 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court brought to an abrupt and likely permanent end the most important provision of the most successful civil rights law in U.S. history. Initially passed in 1965, Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act required “covered jurisdictions,” at first in the D...
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Main Author: | Morgan Kousser |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2016-01-01
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Series: | Transatlantica |
Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7462 |
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