The Supreme Court and the Voting Rights Act: Striking down the law is all about conservatives’ imagination. - Slate Magazine

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The Supreme Court and the Voting Rights Act: Striking down the law is all about conservatives’ imagination. - Slate Magazine: by Richard Posner
To: Emily Bazelon, Walter Dellinger, and Eric Posner

 "Shelby County v. Holder, decided Tuesday, struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act (the part requiring certain states with a history of racial discrimination in voting to obtain federal permission in advance to change their voting procedures—called “preclearance”) as violating the “fundamental principle of equal sovereignty” of the states. This is a principle of constitutional law of which I had never heard—for the excellent reason that, as Eric points out and I will elaborate upon briefly, there is no such principle......"

Richard Posner is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.

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