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Avoiding Avoidance in Brnovich
Document Type
Blog Posting
Publication Date
2021
Publication Title
Election Law Blog
Abstract
In today’s decision in Brnovich v. DNC, the Supreme Court established a new, more stringent discriminatory-effects test for vote-denial claims brought under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Many commentators will focus on how the Court made it far harder to bring such claims, which have proliferated after Shelby County v. Holder gutted the preclearance regime. Today is definitely a loss for voting rights plaintiffs. But I want to focus on what is absent from Brnovich: namely, any discussion of constitutional avoidance or even a constitutional holding about the Fifteenth Amendment.
Keywords
Voting Rights, Election Law, Constitutional Law, Brnovich v. DNC, Fifteenth Amendment
Publication Citation
Travis Crum, Avoiding Avoidance in Brnovich, Election Law Blog (July 1, 2021, 11:48AM), https://electionlawblog.org/?p=123078
Repository Citation
Crum, Travis, "Avoiding Avoidance in Brnovich" (2021). Scholarship@WashULaw. 114.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/114