In the Supreme Court’s ruling on June 25 in an Alabama case, Shelby County v. Holder, Texas and other state and local governments that had been required to get legal clearance in Washington for any changes in their election laws were spared from that duty, at least for the time being....
b. Administrability/feasibility: a specific form of impact brief that often focuses on whether a particular ruling from the Supreme Court would be administrable or proposes a more manageable alternative. Example: the Brennan Centers brief proposing a test for deciding illicit partisan gerrymandering ...