Faubus v. Miles

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

The subject of this litigation is the constitutionality of Act 19 of the First Extraordinary Session of the Sixty-Fourth General Assembly. Said Act 19 purports to accomplish two major objectives: one is to establish a system of voter registration and the other is to abolish the poll tax as a prerequisite to vote in any election.

Shortly after Act 19 was passed (with an emergency clause) and signed by the governor, a citizen and taxpayer (representing the citizens and taxpayers of the state) brought suit against the governor as Ex Officio Chairman of the State Board…