New from me: SCOTUS' decision in Brnovich comes at the worst possible time for the White House, which is ramping up its voting rights push, and for the Department of Justice, which is doing the same and just brought a Section 2 case against Georgia businessinsider.com/scotus-voting-…
Section 2 lawsuits were never easy, but SCOTUS just made them trickier for plaintiffs by raising the bar to prove a violation, giving more leeway to states, and throwing in a new standard that the voting rules from 1982 (!) should also be factored in businessinsider.com/scotus-voting-…
The Court's ruling particularly throws a wrench in the DOJ's Georgia lawsuit by 1) upholding Arizona's out-of-precinct provisional policy 2) raising the bar to show intentional racial discrimination 3) ruling that "cat's paw" doesn't apply to legislatures businessinsider.com/scotus-voting-…
In addition to the immediate implications for ongoing Section 2 litigation, this ruling may make Democrats/civil rights groups think twice before bringing federal voting rights cases that could also end up before the current SCOTUS businessinsider.com/scotus-voting-…
Marc Elias makes the point that cases can be brought under the 14th and 15th Amendments. Important to note, however, that the Voting Rights Act specifically derives its power under Congress's authority to enforce those very amendments with legislation
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