I haven’t read all of the reactions to this past week’s Burwell v Hobby Lobby decision, so perhaps I missed this, but I haven’t seen much of what I thought would be an obvious reaction when I was much younger. This post is an extension of the comment I left at Althouse when the decision […]
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Beaumont ISD and the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Will Baude linked to a post by Univ. of Texas Law prof Joey Fishkin about a redistricting fight going on in Beaumont that piqued my curiosity. Prof Fishkin writes: The Beaumont case thus provides a particularly clear case [emph added] of the effect of the demise of Section 5: under Section […]