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Rucho and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act
Document Type
Blog Posting
Language
English (en)
Publication Date
2019
Publication Title
Election Law Blog
Abstract
In Rucho v. Common Cause, the conservatives on the Supreme Court finally prevailed on their decades-long effort to declare partisan gerrymandering a non-justiciable political question. Rather than add to the legion of voices condemning Rucho on its own terms, I want to focus on its worrisome implications for racial vote-dilution claims and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
Keywords
Rucho v. Common Cause, Section 2, Voting Rights Act, Gerrymandering, Electoral Law, Partisan Redistricting, Civil Rights, Supreme Court, Voter Suppression, Election Law
Publication Citation
Travis Crum, Rucho and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Election Law Blog (June 27, 2019), https://electionlawblog.org/?p=105831
Repository Citation
Crum, Travis, "Rucho and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act" (2019). Scholarship@WashULaw. 720.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/720