Voting Rights Project defends in federal court the Voting Rights Act Section 5 protections against the use of racially discriminatory voting practices

From a Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law article, without offering reader commenting, but having a link to the court case:

"On February 2, 2011, the Voting Rights Project participated in oral argument and on February 16, 2011, filed its third major brief in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, a challenge to the constitutionality of Congress' 2006 reauthorization of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The Project represents Shelby County resident Bobby Lee Harris, who intervened in the case to defend Section 5.  Since 1965, Section 5 has provided crucial protections against the use of racially discriminatory voting practices.  Section 5 currently applies across nine states and parts of seven other states. 

In its briefs and in oral argument, the Project has emphasized the broad discretion granted Congress to remedy racial discrimination in voting, and the lengthy record Congress established in 2005 and 2006 demonstrating the continuing prevalence of voting discrimination and the ongoing need for the Section 5 preclearance remedy."

Definition of Voting Rights Act of 1965: Congress passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to improve voter registration and turnout among African‐Americans. It has been amended or reauthorized in subsequent years.

Howard Ball, David Schultz "Voting Rights Act of 1965"  The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. Kermit L. Hall. Oxford University Press. 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.  17 March 2011  <http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t184.e1278>

 
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