The Voting Rights Act is alive and well. All that is dead is the preclearance section.
In the unlikely event that someone, somewhere, ACTUALLY tried to prevent blacks from voting again, I’m sure the Voting Rights Act as it stands now would do a fine job in making sure blacks can vote.
As discussed on Monday, Section V is difficult to enforce if Section IV is no longer applicable.
Correct, but the preclearance section was the thorn. Now that it’s removed it opens up the VRA to all kinds of litigation over the statistics, measurement and extent of racism in voting in the post-Confederate South.
How narrow can they go if you elect blacks, Indians, etc.? Are black/black districts racist?
The so called Voter’s Rights Act is ironic if nothing else.
Almost all of the areas that it covered were run by democrats when the violations took place and are now controlled by the Republicans. So the democrats committed the crimes and the Republicans got the punishment.
And soo are alot of laws that have their merit cutoff from them. I would hate to be in Constitution law.