Voting Rights Act: Legal Analysis Of Court Cases (1965-Present)
Abstract
Due to incited interest in recent law suits against various racially gerrymandered majority-minority districts in North Carolina, Louisiana, and Texas there is a need to take a closer look into the matter. In this study the Voting Rights Act was analyzed from the perspective of the judicial system using court cases as a guide. This study is an expansion of previous agenda-setting studies that have observed the Act from the perspective of the federal and state legislatures and local governments' reaction to the Act's mandates. Issues from each of the mentioned perspectives dealing with the Voting Rights Act have varied. There has been no consensus as to what direction the interpretation of the Act is heading. Initially, voting rights suits involved minorities suing for relief for their disenfranchisement. However more recently, voting rights cases have involved Republicans suing for relief for violations against their Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection rights.
Description
Program year: 1994/1995Digitized from print original stored in HDR
Subject
Voting Rights Actjudicial system
disenfranchisement
Equal Protection rights
court cases
gerrymandering
Citation
Sims, Kellie (1995). Voting Rights Act: Legal Analysis Of Court Cases (1965-Present). University Undergraduate Research Fellow. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /CAPSTONE -SimsK _1995.