Geroge Will: The Supreme Court Puts Off Restoring the Voting Rights Act’s Shine

Geroge Will: The Supreme Court puts off restoring the Voting Rights Act’s shine

Sixty years ago this summer, Congress enacted the nation-transforming Voting Rights Act. Soon, however, Congress and a deferential Supreme Court, by reverse alchemy, turned the gold of the VRA into the lead of today’s racial distribution of representation. The Supreme…

Federal Enforcement and Black Political Representation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Voting Rights Act | Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Federal Enforcement and Black Political Representation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Voting Rights Act

Supreme Court Misses Chance To Restore Promise of Voting Rights Act, Which Has Been Degraded by Multiculturalism

Justice Thomas zeroes in on the contradictions between the law’s guarantee of the rights of groups, and the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection…