Pam Karlan wrote:
Regarding the section 5 issue, things are rendered even more complicated by
the fact that although three counties in California are covered
jurisdictions, the state as a whole isn't. The U.S. Supreme Court danced
around this issue in Lopez v. Monterey County, 525 U.S. 255 (1999).
Pamela S. Karlan
Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law
Stanford Law School
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