Thursday, February 24, 2011

Mark Ganzer's Blog: Is Anyone Watching? [Voting rights and the U.S. Supreme Court]

"Two years ago, the Supreme Court looked over a cliff and decided not to jump. The question was whether a core section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as renewed by Congress in 2006 for another 25 years, was constitutional. A majority opinion by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. strongly suggested that it wasn’t. ...Against this background, the nearly complete absence of attention received by another Voting Rights Act challenge is surprising. The new case was argued earlier this month in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., and will almost certainly make its way to the Supreme Court."
The entire article is at http://markganzersblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/february-23-2011-830-pm-is-anyone.html; no commenting is available there.
There has not been a strong tradition of Americans writing case-related opinions to the U.S. Supreme Court.  However, you may be able to support the legal work of either the plaintiff or the defendant in a case.  Check out the entire article for more information.


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