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Kevin Morris@kevintmorris.bsky.social |
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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Kevin Morris
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In the years leading up to the 1965 Act, Congress had expanded the powers of the government to sue over voting rights violations. But it wasn't enough--litigation is time consuming, and localities would often just switch to a new way of discriminating when the old way was blocked
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