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28 Jul 2020, 12:15 pm by Susan N. Herman
Like the ACLU, Lewis connected the dots between racial equality and LGBTQ equality: No one should suffer discrimination on the basis of who they are. [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 8:50 pm by ReNika Moore
  We are also calling on Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to finally create a fair and equal national voting system, the cause for which John Lewis devoted his life. [read post]
6 Jan 2022, 5:30 am by Bobby Hoffman
While the ACLU will continue to litigate and push back against discriminatory and illegal voter suppression attempts, Congress must do its part by passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. [read post]
25 Aug 2021, 2:51 pm by Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (“the amendment”) in an effort to amend and strengthen the civil-rights-era Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) and to address a history of racial discrimination. [read post]
1 Jul 2021, 1:50 pm by Davin Rosborough
As Justice Kagan wrote in dissent, the VRA “represents the best of America … It marries two great ideals: democracy and racial equality. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 7:26 am by Erin Miller
  Professor Klarman has written extensively about the Court and racial equality. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 2:20 pm by Alex Vitrak
And when Congress acts to enforce prohibitions against racial discrimination in voting it acts at the height of it powers. [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 5:20 pm by Joseph Fishkin
When the Supreme Court, for its own reasons, errs by eviscerating important constitutional guarantees—such as the right to vote free from racial discrimination, or women’s right to equal protection and bodily autonomy, to take the two examples under discussion today—legislators who believe in those constitutional guarantees are obligated to find a way to pass statutes to enforce them. [read post]
25 May 2023, 11:06 am by Lana Ulrich
However, Justice Lewis Powell’s controlling opinion said that use of race as one factor in admission was permissible, while the use of racial quotas violated the Equal Protection Clause. [read post]
6 Jul 2021, 8:04 am by Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
The Supreme Court placed the 15th Amendment’s lofty goal of racial equality in voting out of reach again in its ruling in Brnovich v. [read post]
7 Jul 2021, 8:10 am by David Gans
Holder nullified the preclearance requirement by ignoring the text and history of Congress’ explicit power to enforce the 15th Amendment’s promise of racial equality at the polls, practicing a selective form of originalism. [read post]