Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
Countdown Day 13: New Report Finds Urgent Need for Fix to Combat Modern Day Voting Discrimination Against Latino Voters Nationwide The joint NALEO/MALDEF/NHLA report found egregious and far-reaching voting discrimination at every stage of the voting process; More than 7.8 million Latino voters are expected to head to the polls this November, making it critical for […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
Countdown Day 12: Below are Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and Charles Ogletree’s initial reactions to the Supreme Court Decision in Shelby County, vs. Alabama. These brief op-eds were published in the Washington Post on June 25, 2013. JOHN LEWIS Democratic representative from Georgia The Supreme Court has stuck a dagger into the heart of the Voting Rights […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
Countdown Day 1: Testimony of Sherrilyn Ifill Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Hearing on “The Voting Rights Amendment Act, S. 1945: Updating the Voting Rights Act in Response to Shelby County v. Holder” Ifill Senate Committeee Tes… by on Scribd
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court struck down one of the most important provisions of the Voting Rights Act, leaving millions of […]
Sunday, January 30, 2011 | news
For black residents and their lawyers, diluting the strength of any one black voter is problematic. “If there has been a discriminatory voting change, it is not absolved because there have been ten or one hundred non-discriminatory changes; the act of discrimination is still odious,” wrote lawyers for the defendants who intervened in the case, […]
Friday, September 17, 2010 | news
Shelby County's challenge to theconstitutionality of portions of the Voting Rights Act got on a faster legal track Thursday when a federal judge in Washington denied a government request for more fact-finding. Shelby County's claim that two key sections of the landmark law — requiring certain states and cities to get their election procedures pre-approved […]
Thursday, February 3, 2011 | news
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Shelby County asked a federal judge in Washington today to declare two key parts of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional because Congress relied on old voting statistics when it extended the historic civil rights law for another 25 years. “Certainly it was rational for Congress to choose to stay the course […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Case: Voting Rights Shelby County v. Holder The fight to protect preclearance and essential Voting Rights Act protections Supreme Court Oral Argument: February 27, 2013 Decision: June 25, 2013 Shelby County v. Holder is a seminal voting rights case that ultimately dismantled essential protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The case has […]
Monday, July 2, 2018 | scholarship-rec
Sheila Jackson Lee represented the 18th Congressional District of Texas in the United States House of Representatives. Since her election in 1994, she was become an influential voice in Washington, and was named by ‘Congressional Quarterly’ as one of the 50 most effective Members of Congress. Originally from Queens, New York, Rep. Jackson Lee earned […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
SETTLEMENT In January 2022, a final settlement agreement was reached in Sheff v. O’Neill. If the proposed settlement is approved by both a judge and the Connecticut State Legislature, it will result in a permanent injunction enforcing the key terms of a long-term Comprehensive Choice Plan (CCP) intended to redress the consequences of decades of […]
