Legal Opinion
Cook v. Randolph County, Ga.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 7, 2009No. 08-10546PublishedCited by 175 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
As Justice Holmes once remarked, “pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do some things that they want to do.” Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, 261 U.S. 525, 568, 43 S.Ct. 394, 405, 67 L.Ed. 785 (1923) (Holmes, J., dissenting). In this case the Randolph County Board of Registrar’s wanted to change the voting registration of Henry Cook, a member of the county’s board of education, which also would have changed the district from which he could run for office. The law that prevented the board from doing that is § 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. §…
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