[EL] section 5 in trouble

[Rick Hasen]

Tom Goldstein gives a bit more context for the tweet here:

http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/02/from-the-shelby-county-argument/


On 2/27/13 8:00 AM, Rick Hasen wrote:
>
>
>     Early Report from Oral Argument: Not Looking Good for Section 5
>     <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47793>
>
> Posted on February 27, 2013 7:58 am 
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47793> by Rick Hasen 
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> SCOTUSBLOG tweet: 
> <https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/306794508094423040> "Update 
> from argument: VRA Sec 5 almost sure to be invalidated 5-4. Congress 
> will have to reconsider the preclearance formula."
>
> As Adam Liptak reminded 
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/us/politics/challenge-to-voting-rights-act-hinges-on-a-formula.html?ref=politics&_r=1&>us 
> last night "Many predicted that the court would strike down Section 5 
> in 2009, and they were wrong. Observers who make the same prediction 
> today may suffer the same fate. But evidence suggests that the court's 
> five more conservative members may be prepared to take on at least one 
> aspect of the law.They could stop short of striking down Section 5 
> itself. But if they say only that the current coverage formula must 
> end, sending the question back to Congress, that would almost 
> certainly have the practical effect in the current climate of 
> legislative gridlock of striking down the section altogether."
>
> Yup. They can hide behind the fig leaf of just striking down the 
> coverage formula, as I suggested they'd do 
> <http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/01/30/if-the-court-strikes-section-5-of-voting-rights-act/> 
> in this Reuters piece. But the practical effect is to end section 5.
>
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UC Irvine School of Law
401 E. Peltason Dr., Suite 1000
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