Legal Opinion
Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 25, 2013No. 12-96PublishedCited by 321 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Roberts
*534The Voting Rights Act of 1965 employed extraordinary measures to address an extraordinary problem. Section 5 *535of the Act required States to obtain federal permission before enacting any law related to voting-a drastic departure from basic principles of federalism. And § 4 of the Act applied that requirement only to some States-an equally dramatic departure from the principle that all States enjoy equal sovereignty. This was strong medicine, but Congress determined it was needed to address entrenched racial discrimination in voting, "an insidious and pervasive evil which had been perpetuated in…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- South Carolina v. KatzenbachSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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