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| Permalink View Article Stats Promoted to Headline (H2) on 7/10/11: Sixteen Senators Ask DOJ To Investigate Potentially Illegal State Voter Disenfranchisement Laws Quicklink submitted by Joan Brunwasser (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| It is difficult to see how many of the voter ID laws being pushed in GOP-controlled states could survive scrutiny under the Voting Rights Act, which not only forbids laws that are passed specifically to target minority voters but also strikes down state laws that have a greater impact on minority voters than on others. There is, however, reason to fear that the Supreme Court could simply strike down parts of the VRA if the DOJ attempted to make Repub-controlled states follow the law. The Court’s conservatives strongly hinted that they may strike down the provision of the VRA requiring many stakes to preclear new voting laws, and another recent case dealing with race discrimination in the workplace raises the — albeit less likely — possibility that they could also invalidate the VRA’s ban on laws that have a disproportionate impact on minorities. |
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