This week’s US Supreme Court ruling may have surprised many people, given the high court gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act 10 years ago.
may have surprised many people, given the high court gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act 10 years ago.
Back then, the landmark voting rights law mandated states with a history of voting discrimination get federal pre-clearance before changing the way they held elections. “What we saw was a very traditional application of voting rights law as it has existed for many decades,” said Nina Perales, vice president of litigation at the“What we know is that this was a very strong case out of Alabama,” Perales said.“The Supreme Court very firmly rejected Alabama’s arguments that minority voting rights cases have to be without respect to race,” Perales said.
“But the new political maps that were drawn by Texas didn’t expand any Latino electoral opportunity in all four maps, state House, state Senate, Congressional and State Board of Education,” Perales said. She said MALDEF wants those maps tossed, like the ones in Alabama that the Supreme Court ruled discriminated against African-American voters.However, she said, “It’s very helpful for us in the Texas case … affirming the standards that protect minority voters.”Related Stories:
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