Voting Rights ActThe preclearance regime is a system by which the administration ensures that state and local jurisdictions, which have a history of government-ratified discrimination, abide by the Fifteenth Amendment. In 2006, due to the success of the regime in promoting political participation ...
In order to prevent changes that have a discriminatory purpose or effect, certain jurisdictions are required to obtain preclearance before implementing new voting practices. Discover More Word History and Origins Origin ofpreclearance1 First recorded in 1925–30;pre- ( def )+clearance ( def ) ...
2.The regulator’s lawsuit eventually led to an unusual agreement that Tesla lawyers would preclear certain of the CEO’s tweets and other public statements. 3.The plaintiffs are also seeking an order requiring Texas to preclear with the federal government all changes in statewide voting practice...
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Status of Minority Voting Rights: A Look at Section V Preclearance Protections and Recent Decisions Affecting Multi-Member Voting Districts, TheMinority disenfranchisement in America began in the late nineteenth century when the states of the old Confederacy attempted to establish and maintain white ...
The preclearance provision is aimed to end laws that kept African-Americans from voting. Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor stated that the Act works ... Cline,Seth - 《U.s.news Digital Weekly》 被引量: 0发表: 2013年 MARK IV UPSET IN OKLAHOMA The staff of the Oklahoma Transportation Authority...
In voting rights …states) obtain prior approval (“preclearance”) of any change to their electoral laws or procedures—generally by demonstrating to a federal court that the change “does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account...
Supreme Court declared (5–4) unconstitutional Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, which set forth a formula for determining which jurisdictions were required (under Section 5 of the act) to seek federal approval of any proposed change to their electoral laws or procedures (“...
Texas is one of nine states that requires preclearance from the Justice Department or a federal court before implementing its maps under Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Last summer, Texas opted to sidestep the Justice Department and sued for preclearance directly in federal court. The...