{"id":4857,"date":"2015-02-12T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2015-02-12T09:02:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:02:14","slug":"voting-rights-acts-2014-u-s-court-decision-shelby-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/voting-rights-acts-2014-u-s-court-decision-shelby-county\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voting Rights Acts of 2014 and U.S. Court Decision in Shelby County"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this year 2015, the Voting Rights Act<\/a> of 1965 (\u201cVRA\u201d) was heralded as \u201cthe most effective civil rights law in the history of the United States,\u201d Richard L. Engstrom, Race and Seven Politics, 10 ELECTION, L.J. 53, 53 (2011). The 50 years since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was made law was predated by many U.S. Congressional acts or attempts to enact protection of the voting rights of all American citizens. In fact, in 1870, Henry Cabot Lodge proposed a \u201cForced Bill,\u201d a law that would reinforce an 1870 law that gave force to the federal government to make sure that all phases of registration and voting, particularly in Southern states, was protected. This bill passed the House of Representatives but failed in the Senate. From that time, through the 1880s, right up to the present day and including 1965, the right to vote has been under attack or has been in some places limited by voter IDs and other state law measures to limit the number of poor, elderly, convicted felons and others from voting in local, state and national elections.<\/p>\n

In the 2013 decision of Shelby County, the 1965 Voting Rights Act was weakened by a 5-4 decision<\/a> in the U.S. Supreme Court that held that Section 4 coverage formula was unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court asserted that that section was not adequately grounded in \u201ccurrent conditions.\u201d Shelby County, 133 S.Ct. at 26-29.<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, the Supreme Court, in limiting the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, did so even though Congress reauthorized the Voting Rights Acts in 2006 by overwhelming votes in both the U.S. House and the Senate. There were reports that Congress reviewed 15,000 pages of evidence showing persistent discrimination in voting in the 9 southern states of jurisdictions that were covered under the Act.<\/p>\n

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In this year 2015, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (\u201cVRA\u201d) was heralded as \u201cthe most effective civil rights law in the history of the United States,\u201d Richard L. Engstrom, Race and Seven Politics, 10 ELECTION, L.J. 53, 53 (2011). 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