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ELECTION LAW - VOTING RIGHTS ACT - FOURTH CIRCUIT STRIKES DOWN PROVISIONS OF ELECTION LAW ENACTED WITH RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY INTENT
Ist Teil von
Harvard law review, 2017-05, Vol.130 (7), p.1752
Ort / Verlag
Cambridge: Harvard Law Review Association
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Electronic Journals Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The Voting Rights Act of 19651 (VRA) -- a major triumph of the Civil Rights Movement -- was enacted to protect black Americans and other persons of color from state-sanctioned disenfranchisement. To guard against discriminatory voting procedures, section 5 of the VRA established a system of preclearance review, whereby designated jurisdictions were required to submit electoral reforms to either the Attorney General or the US District Court for the District of Columbia for federal approval. in North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. McCrory, the Fourth Circuit permanently enjoined provisions of North Carolina's 2013 election reform law for violating the ban against discriminatory intent under section 2 of the VRA and the Fourteenth Amendment.