[EL] Arizona tries to topple sec. 5 of voting rights act

[Brian Landsberg]

Arizona's main claim seems to be that the state doesn't discriminate and hasn't discriminated. Shouldn't this be a bail out suit rather than a constitutional challenge?  If so, is the constitutional issue ripe?

Brian K. Landsberg
Distinguished Professor and Scholar
Pacific McGeorge School of Law
3200 Fifth Ave., Sacramento CA 95817
916 739-7103
blandsberg at pacific.edu
 

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See the attached complaint.


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http://www.ballot-access.org/2011/08/25/arizona-sues-to-overturn-section-5-of-voting-rights-act/

If anyone has the case name and/or case number, I'd be grateful to learn those things.