Voting Rights

Date

1988

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Texas Tech Law Review

Abstract

Surveys recent Fifth Circuit decisions involving voter rights, comparing them with and contrasting them against contemporary United States Supreme Court decisions on the subject. The author notes that the Fifth Circuit’s voting rights caseload during the survey period was relatively meager, the opinions issued by SCOTUS over the same period will almost certainly have a dramatic impact on its voting rights cases going forward.

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Keywords

Fifth Circuit, Voting Rights Act, Voter discrimination, Voter suppression, Minority voting, Redistricting, Section 2 cases, Single-shot voting, Bullet voting

Citation

19 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 857