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National Voter Registration Act - Statutory Interpretation - Election Law - Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute

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• Harvard law review, 2018-11, Vol.132 (1), p.437

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Cambridge: Harvard Law Review Association

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2018

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• Voter suppression is as American as apple pie. Between the 2012 and 2016 elections, for example, fourteen states enacted laws making it harder for citizens to vote. These laws affect minority voters with particular intensity. Last Term, in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, the Court upheld an Ohio law that could ultimately allow the state to remove from its voter rolls close to one million registered voters. While cast as a dry exercise in statutory interpretation, Husted is best understood through the lens of the nation's history of race-based voter suppression.