Voting Rights
Date
1988
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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