This extensive report examines the impact of the Supreme Court's decision in the Shelby County case to strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act & calls for Congress to amend the law. Includes a rebuttal from Gail Heriot, the only Republican appointee,https://twitter.com/USCCRgov/status/1039871166255706114 …
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Heriot among other things questions whether DOJ should be "primary arbiter" of what is acceptable when it comes to voting rights on grounds that lawyers in civil rights division are likely to be left-leaning (p311: https://www.usccr.gov/pubs/2018/Minority_Voting_Access_2018.pdf …)
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Heriot concludes by saying that while voting issues are important, they already get a lot of attention and people should spend the same energy focusing on defending free expression, citing an article saying that ACLU now refuses to defend white supremacists (a claim ACLU denied)
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