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6 Aug 2013, 1:02 pm by Lyle Denniston
However, Texas and any other jurisdiction that has been under Section 5 has now been freed of that, because the Supreme Court in the Shelby County decision struck down the automatic formula (in Section 4) that determined which states and local governments had to obey Section 5. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 9:25 pm by Alfred Brophy
 Here is his abstract: The plaintiffs in Shelby County v. [read post]
15 Jul 2013, 11:45 am by Josh Douglas
In two recent election-related cases, Citizens United and Shelby County, the Court rejected the as-applied approach and struck down the laws on their face. [read post]
13 Jul 2013, 10:49 am by Will Baude
After my post defending aspects of the Court's opinion in Shelby County v. [read post]
8 Jul 2013, 12:55 pm by Albert Wan
 But I think it hard pressed for anyone to argue that a robust and sustained debate on, say, whether a law is based on outdated data (the Shelby County, Voting Rights Act case) or whether the moral underpinnings of a law cause it to be discriminatory (the Windsor, DOMA case), can be had between the covers of  the legal briefs on which the justices rely to make their decisions. [read post]
6 Jul 2013, 5:04 pm by Larry Catá Backer
Second, that long established governments are not lightly overthrown even in the face of usurpation (the principle of imperfection in government). [read post]
5 Jul 2013, 7:27 am by Sam Barr
Recent coverage of, and commentary on, the Court focused on last week’s decision in Shelby County v. [read post]
3 Jul 2013, 4:05 pm by Lyle Denniston
Relying on the Shelby County decision, lawyers for Texas formally asked three-judge U.S. [read post]
3 Jul 2013, 10:18 am by Rodger Citron
  Roberts was able to forge a conservative consensus on the merits of the legal issue presented only in Shelby County v. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 7:32 am by Sarah Erickson-Muschko
Other commentary focused on the Court’s holding in Shelby County v. [read post]
1 Jul 2013, 7:01 am by Tom Webley
Shelby County, Alabama, challenged the preclearance requirements of sections 4 and 5 as outmoded and biased against particular governments. [read post]
30 Jun 2013, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
More Hostility to Novelty in the Voting Rights Act Case The same five conservative Justices who thought that the Affordable Care Act went beyond the limits of Congress’s powers under the Commerce Clause ruled last week in Shelby County v. [read post]
30 Jun 2013, 12:19 pm by Sandy Levinson
One of the most astounding sentences in Roberts’s egregious Shelby County opinion gutting the Voting Rights Act is the following (slip op., p. 9):  “Indeed, the Constitution provides that all powers not specifically granted to the Federal Government are reserved to the States or citizens. [read post]
29 Jun 2013, 8:09 am by Will Baude
He wrote separate concurrences in Fisher and Shelby County which heavily invoked the civil rights movement but were mysteriously quiet about the original meaning of the 14th and 15th Amendments. [read post]
28 Jun 2013, 10:21 pm by Joey Fishkin
”This view is sort of consistent with the majority opinion in Shelby County. [read post]
28 Jun 2013, 8:09 am by John Neiman
King once was pastor, and to think about Shelby County v. [read post]