Fingers crossed! A federal law that applied to states selectively seems nuts to me, but if that's what the VRA was, then I could see why it should have been tossed out.
Fingers crossed! A federal law that applied to states selectively seems nuts to me, but if that's what the VRA was, then I could see why it should have been tossed out.
But only states in the Jim Crow south were preventing Blacks from voting by means of a poll tax, literacy tests and a white primary. Also fraud and intimidation. If the other states had done the same, it would have applied to them. But they didn't.
Fingers crossed! A federal law that applied to states selectively seems nuts to me, but if that's what the VRA was, then I could see why it should have been tossed out.
But only states in the Jim Crow south were preventing Blacks from voting by means of a poll tax, literacy tests and a white primary. Also fraud and intimidation. If the other states had done the same, it would have applied to them. But they didn't.