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Author : Marsha Darling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135730383
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Kevin J. Coleman
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Election law
ISBN : 1505554322
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) was successfully challenged in a June 2013 case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder. The suit challenged the constitutionality of Sections 4 and 5 of the VRA, under which certain jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination in voting-mostly in the South-were required to "pre-clear" changes to the election process with the Justice Department (the U.S. Attorney General) or the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The preclearance provision (Section 5) was based on a formula (Section 4) that considered voting practices and patterns in 1964, 1968, or 1972. At issue in Shelby County was whether Congress exceeded its constitutional authority when it reauthorized the VRA in 2006-with the existing formula-thereby infringing on the rights of the states. In its ruling, the Court struck down Section 4 as outdated and not "grounded in current conditions." As a consequence, Section 5 is intact, but inoperable, unless or until Congress prescribes a new Section 4 formula.
Author : Marsha Darling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135730451
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Marsha Jean Tyson Darling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Apportionment (Election law)
ISBN : LCCN:2001031995
Author : Benjamin E. Griffith
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Election law
ISBN : 1590319729
This book is a snapshot of America's voting and electoral practices, problems, and most current issues. The book addresses a variety of fundamental areas concerning election law from a federal perspective such as the Help America Vote Act, lessons learned from the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, voter identification, and demographic and statistical experts in election litigation, and more. It is a useful guide for lawyers as well as law school professors, election officials, state and local government personnel, and election workers.
Author : Chandler Davidson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691021082
This work is the first systematic attempt to measure the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, commonly regarded as the most effective civil rights legislation of the century. Marshaling a wealth of detailed evidence, the contributors to this volume show how blacks and Mexican Americans in the South, along with the Justice Department, have used the act and the U.S. Constitution to overcome the resistance of white officials to minority mobilization. The book tells the story of the black struggle for equal political participation in eight core southern states from the end of the Civil War to the 1980s--with special emphasis on the period since 1965. The contributors use a variety of quantitative methods to show how the act dramatically increased black registration and black and Mexican-American office holding. They also explain modern voting rights law as it pertains to minority citizens, discussing important legal cases and giving numerous examples of how the law is applied. Destined to become a standard source of information on the history of the Voting Rights Act, Quiet Revolution in the South has implications for the controversies that are sure to continue over the direction in which the voting rights of American ethnic minorities have evolved since the 1960s.
Author : Edward Blum
Publisher : A E I Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105064239200
The book highlight the real-world consequences of the changes to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Edward Blum draws on public records, press accounts, and extensive personal interviews with state and local officials to reveal the transformation of the VRA from a law protecting voting rights to a gerrymandering tool used to further the electoral prospects of incumbent politicians of all races.
Author : Gary May
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465050734
When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls through a combination of sheer terror and insidious devices such as complex literacy tests and expensive poll taxes. Most African Americans would remain voiceless for nearly a century more, citizens in name only until the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act secured their access to the ballot. In Bending Toward Justice, celebrated historian Gary May describes how black voters overcame centuries of bigotry to secure and preserve one of their most important rights as American citizens. The struggle that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act was long and torturous, and only succeeded because of the courageous work of local freedom fighters and national civil rights leaders -- as well as, ironically, the opposition of Southern segregationists and law enforcement officials, who won public sympathy for the voting rights movement by brutally attacking peaceful demonstrators. But while the Voting Rights Act represented an unqualified victory over such forces of hate, May explains that its achievements remain in jeopardy. Many argue that the 2008 election of President Barack Obama rendered the act obsolete, yet recent years have seen renewed efforts to curb voting rights and deny minorities the act's hard-won protections. Legal challenges to key sections of the act may soon lead the Supreme Court to declare those protections unconstitutional. A vivid, fast-paced history of this landmark piece of civil rights legislation, Bending Toward Justice offers a dramatic, timely account of the struggle that finally won African Americans the ballot -- although, as May shows, the fight for voting rights is by no means over.
Author : Michael Waldman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982198930
On cover, the word "right" has an x drawn over the letter "r" with the letter "f" above it.
Author : Ari Berman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374711498
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2015 A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015 A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2015 An NPR Best Book of 2015 Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been paid to what happened after the dramatic passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 and the turbulent forces it unleashed. Give Us the Ballot tells this story for the first time. In this groundbreaking narrative history, Ari Berman charts both the transformation of American democracy under the VRA and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit voting rights, from 1965 to the present day. The act enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. And yet, fifty years later, we are still fighting heated battles over race, representation, and political power, with lawmakers devising new strategies to keep minorities out of the voting booth and with the Supreme Court declaring a key part of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. Berman brings the struggle over voting rights to life through meticulous archival research, in-depth interviews with major figures in the debate, and incisive on-the-ground reporting. In vivid prose, he takes the reader from the demonstrations of the civil rights era to the halls of Congress to the chambers of the Supreme Court. At this important moment in history, Give Us the Ballot provides new insight into one of the most vital political and civil rights issues of our time.
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210026473015
Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : African Americans
ISBN : PSU:000030231528
Author : Richard Sobel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107128293
Citizenship as Foundation of Rights explains what it means to have citizen rights and how national identification requirements undermine them.
Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : PURD:32754083052385
Author : Alexander Keyssar
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465010141
Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.
