Shelby County v. Holder 
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12/4/2022
While Decrying Election Denialists, Congress Can't Ignore the Need to Protect the Voting Rights Act
by Gregory T. Moore
The best way for a bipartsian coalition of lawmakers to demonstrate more than lip service to the values of democracy is to pass the Electoral Count Reform Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
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SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
5/17/2021
How The Republican Push To Restrict Voting Could Affect Our Elections
Carol Anderson: “I think Shelby is going to go down in history the way the Plessy v. Ferguson decision has.”
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/11/2021
American Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old—And Hanging by a Thread
Atlantic Editor Vann Newkirk examines the recent and imperiled history of American democracy since the Voting Rights Act, including by interviewing Charles Hamilton, co-author of the keystone book "Black Power."
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Why We Still Need the Voting Rights Act
by Simon E. Balto
Mug shot of Olen Burrage in 1964.The expected gutting of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder has captured many headlines of late, and with good reason. Less than fifty years removed from the VRA’s passage and in the face of mounting state-by-state efforts to restrict the franchise, the Roberts Court appears poised to undo one of the civil rights movement’s hallmark achievements. As an array of voting rights advocates and legal experts have demonstrated, such a decision would make it substantially more costly and difficult for citizens and organizations to challenge voting restrictions that are discriminatory in intent or effect.
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