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10 Mar 2013, 9:23 am by Susan I. Nelson
Schleicher is a local lawyer, political blogger and chairman of the McLennan County Democratic Party. [read post]
2 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
  Is there some constitutional principle that limits the ability of state and local governments to grant and then take away rights? [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 8:54 am by Adam Winkler
University of Texas (affirmative action), Shelby County v. [read post]
20 Mar 2022, 9:03 pm by Guy-Uriel Charles
No Black people held an elected position at any level in the city or county. [read post]
3 May 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
It is terrible that none of the current justices has ever run for, or therefore served, in any elected office at any level of government. [read post]
18 Jun 2021, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  Boutwell suggests that it could be based on a variety of already existing parts of the constitutional text, including the Elections and the Republican Form of Government clauses in the 1787 Constitution and the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments thereafter. [read post]
14 Jul 2023, 12:30 pm by John Ross
In 2019 the U.S. government recognizes the opposition leader as the legitimate president. [read post]
18 May 2021, 12:44 pm by Josh Blackman
Bartlett (2013), Justice Ginsburg's dissent in Shelby County (2013), Justice Breyer's dissent in Jennings v. [read post]
27 Jun 2015, 7:17 am by Paul Smith
  The tables were turned, for example, when the Court in Shelby County created a new doctrine of equal state standing and used it to effectively invalidate Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. [read post]
11 Aug 2023, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In the states, however, as Waldman observes, gerrymandering has produced unrepresentative legislative maps and a skewed Congress; the vitiation of the Voting Rights Act by the 2013 decision in Shelby County v. [read post]
2 Jun 2018, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
” But the voting rights of American Indians and Alaska Natives have been further eroded or ignored since the United States Supreme Court overturned a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 in Shelby County v. [read post]
26 Mar 2020, 12:42 pm by Nicholas Mosvick
The case came out of Shelby County, Tennessee, where the city of Memphis sits, which had not reapportioned its legislative district since 1901. [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 3:48 am by Seán Binder
Pearson could get a similar vote for reinstatement tomorrow when the Shelby County Board of Commissioners considers reappointing him to his Memphis district. [read post]
11 Apr 2022, 4:30 am by Eric Segall
" And, in our times, Citizens United and its progeny, along with Shelby County v. [read post]
11 Jun 2019, 6:30 am by Mark Graber
 Most notoriously, the Supreme Court’s opinion in Shelby County v. [read post]
2 May 2024, 11:25 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  He promises a book-length version of yesterday's analysis, and he will have examples from which to choose.There is surely no sense in trying to create a metric for ranking which Court decisions are worse than the others, but some decisions will stand the test of time for being particularly awful (Dobbs being the most obvious candidate, but the Muslim ban case is up there along with Shelby County). [read post]