” Interestingly, none of the Justices addressed the remaining question in the case:  whether, even if the commission’s desire to comply with the Voting Rights Act and obtain preclearance might have once justified the creation of unequally apportioned maps, that justification no longer existed because – since the Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. [read post]

  When the working class threatened the interests of robber barons in late nineteenth century, for example, the illiterate and semiliterate poor were kept from the polls through literacy tests and poll taxes, not unlike the restrictive voter identification laws introduced after the Shelby County v. [read post]

Smith v. [read post]

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