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Since the Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision removed the Section 4(b) coverage formula that triggered federal preclearance, states have enacted scores of new voting restrictions and...
A federal lawsuit filed on August 9, 2023 challenged Tennessee’s 2022 congressional map for splitting Davidson County (Nashville) into three separate U.S. House districts—an arrangement plaintiffs say...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed by both chambers of the United States Congress — the House of Representatives and the Senate — and was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August...
The Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in Shelby County v. Holder removed the Section 4(b) coverage formula that triggered federal “preclearance,” which meant jurisdictions previously required to get federal...
The preponderance of forensic evidence — contemporaneous autopsy findings, recovered bullet fragments, radiographs and later specialist review — supports that died of a single, fatal gunshot wound tha...
Independent, external audits specifically of ICE’s role inside the Memphis Safe Task Force are effectively non-existent in the public record; oversight so far is a mix of internal ICE controls, ad hoc...
Federal and DHS statements assert ICE has arrested “murderers, rapists, pedophiles and gang members” across the country and have named several cases tied to the Memphis area, including an individual w...
Federal courts have generally resisted last‑minute, judicially imposed changes to election procedures—invoking the Purcell principle to preserve stability—while also enforcing federal statutes and vot...
Since 2010 the Open Society Foundations (OSF) has funded a portfolio of U.S. policy efforts focused on democratic practice, justice system change, economic opportunity, public health and climate polic...
The court’s recent and pending decisions prominently invoke long-standing precedents about separation of powers and voting law — including Humphrey’s Executor (the 1935 limitation on presidential remo...
The Shelby County v. Holder decision removed the Voting Rights Act’s preclearance formula and shifted the burden of proving discriminatory redistricting onto plaintiffs, precipitating a surge in litig...
Shelby County v. Holder struck down Section 4(b)’s coverage formula, effectively disabling the Voting Rights Act’s preclearance mechanism in Section 5 and shifting enforcement from automatic federal o...
The Voting Rights Act (VRA), especially , is the principal federal tool that shapes congressional districting by prohibiting vote dilution and requiring remedial districts where minority communities a...
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) still provides tools — primarily Section 2 litigation and Department of Justice enforcement — that can challenge restrictive voting laws, but reestablishing nationwide prec...
The key judicial battles shaping gerrymandering in Texas are a mix of long-running federal challenges to state maps, Supreme Court rulings that set legal standards on race and partisanship, and ongoin...
The Voting Rights Act’s Section 2 has been the central legal tool shaping challenges to racial gerrymandering since 2000, even as its reach has been repeatedly narrowed by court decisions and litigati...