American Voting Rights Part 4: The Proverbial End of the Voting Rights Act
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English - January 25, 2022 13:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHistory history american history black lives matter politics news critical race theory law race class Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Since the November 2020 election, Voting Rights has been ever-present in the daily news cycle because of the attempts across a majority of state legislatures to enact legislation to alleges to enhance voting security but continues the harmful historical pattern of minority-voter discrimination.
In the series, American Voting Rights, Jonathan discusses the history of voting rights between the Civil War and the Civil Rights era which led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act. The episode reflects on the key provisions of the Voting Rights Act which enabled broad and unprecedented federal oversight of state election legislation through the Enforcement Clauses of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution.
In this final episode, Jonathan discusses the impact of the Roberts Court on the Voting Rights act through the 2013 case Shelby County v. Holder and the 2020 case Brnovich v. DNC which effectively disempowered the most effective aspects of the Voting Rights Act.
Resources:
Shelby County v. Holder case, click here.
Brnovich v. DNC case, click here.
"Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present," by Gloria Brown-Marshall, 2013.
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