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Kevin Morris@kevintmorris.bsky.social |
#ShelbyCounty also allowed states like TX to implement discriminatory policies. And, while we litigate, these laws are on the books and disenfranchising people---laws that almost surely would have been blocked *before* going into effect under preclearance
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Kevin Morris
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In SC v Katzenbach in 1966--the SCOTUS opinion affirming the constitutionality of the VRA--the court wrote, "Congress might well decide to shift the advantage of time and inertia from the perpetrators of evil to its victims." That was the power of the VRA
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