Associate Professor @WashULaw writing and teaching about voting rights and constitutional law. #FirstGen
Aug 17, 2021 • 31 tweets • 7 min read
Want to know what’s in the new John Lewis VRAA but don’t have time to read 65 pages of dense and complicated legislative text? Check out this 🧵!
#VRA#redistricting#SCOTUS#VotingRightsAct
The VRAA is an ambitious bill that would respond to SCOTUS’s decisions in Shelby County and Brnovich. One huge difference between this VRAA and other, post-Shelby County VRAAs is that it amends Section 2, the permanent and nationwide ban on racial discrimination in voting. 2/x
Mar 2, 2021 • 137 tweets • 20 min read
I'll be providing live commentary in today's Supreme Court oral argument in Brnovich v. DNC. It starts in thirty minutes. See this thread for more details about the case and updates...
#SCOTUS#VRA
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Brnovich is the first time ever that SCOTUS will hear a vote-denial claim under Section 2 of the VRA. Prior cases involved gerrymandering rather than the right to cast a ballot. It's also the first time in 20 years that the Court will address the 15 Amendment's substantive scope.