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Tag Archives: Supreme Court
State’s Rights, Last Rites, and Voting Rights
Guy-Uriel E. Charles & Luis E. Fuentes-Rohwer, State’s Rights, Last Rites, and Voting Rights (2014) (forthcoming Nw. Univ. L. Rev.), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2377475. Abstract: There are two ways to read the Court’s decision in Shelby County, as a minimalist decision and as a decision … Continue reading
Posted in Charles, Guy-Uriel, Fuentes-Rohwer, Luis
Tagged Supreme Court, voting rights, Voting Rights Act
Democracy and Renewed Distrust: Equal Protection and the Evolving Judicial Conception of Politics
Bertrall L. Ross II, Democracy and Renewed Distrust: Equal Protection and the Evolving Judicial Conception of Politics, 101 Calif. L. Rev. 1565 (2013). Abstract: Judicial interpretations of the Equal Protection Clause have undergone a major transformation over the last fifty … Continue reading
Posted in Ross, Bertrall
Tagged discrimination, Fifteenth Amendment, Supreme Court
Unteachable: Shelby County, Canonical Apostasies, and Ways Forward for the Voting Rights Act
Kareem U. Crayton and Terry Smith, Unteachable: Shelby County, Canonical Apostasies, and Ways Forward for the Voting Rights Act (2013), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2361495. Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, which … Continue reading
Posted in Crayton, Kareem, Smith, Terry
Tagged Supreme Court, Voting Rights Act
The Constitutional Structure of Voting Rights Enforcement
Franita Tolson, The Constitutional Structure of Voting Rights Enforcement (2013) (forthcoming Washington Law Review), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2303155. Abstract: Scholars and courts have hotly debated whether the preclearance regime of the Voting Rights Act is constitutional under the Reconstruction Amendments, but in answering this … Continue reading
Posted in Tolson, Franita
Tagged Fifteenth Amendment, Supreme Court, voting rights
Severability & Electoral Silver Linings after Shelby, Citizens United, and Bennett
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Severability & Electoral Silver Linings after Shelby, Citizens United, and Bennett, Stetson University College of Law Research Paper No. 2013-11 (2013) available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2322180. Abstract: This short essay addresses severability in recent U.S. Supreme Court cases about election law: Shelby County … Continue reading
Posted in Torres-Spelliscy, Ciara
Tagged campaign finance, election administration, Supreme Court, Voting Rights Act
The First Amendment, Equal Protection, and Felon Disfranchisement: A New Viewpoint
Janai S. Nelson, The First Amendment, Equal Protection, and Felon Disfranchisement: A New Viewpoint, 65 Fla. L. Rev. 111 (2013). Abstract: This Article engages the equality principles of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause to reconsider the constitutionality of … Continue reading
Posted in Nelson, Janai
Tagged Supreme Court, voting rights
Matching Political Contributions
Spencer Overton, Matching Political Contributions, 96 Minn. L. Rev. 1694 (2012). Abstract: Traditional public financing of campaigns is in trouble. Successful candidates have increasingly rejected public financing because it provides inadequate funding and limits candidate spending. November 2012 was the first … Continue reading
Posted in Overton, Spencer
Tagged campaign finance, Supreme Court
