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Fifty Years After the Voting Rights Act, Two Years After Shelby County

By Ana Choi In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, HLPR has published a new article in which Ryan P. Haygood exposes the damage caused by Shelby County in the past two years. Fifty years ago today, the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 (“VRA”) was signed into law. The VRA was one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movement, and for the next several decades, it played a crucial role in the fight against discrimination and the advancement of voting …

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Thinking About an Agenda for a New Supreme Court, Part I

By Mark Tushnet Suppose that a Democratic president makes a “relevant” appointment to the Supreme Court – that is, a replacement for one of the Court’s conservative justices (among whom I include Justice Kennedy). What can progressive scholars and activists say about the new Court’s agenda? Some immediate qualifications:  You shouldn’t think that the President will name and the Senate confirm someone who has exactly the agenda you’d like. The pool of potential nominees is already mostly set, …

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