Connors v. Bennett

I fully agree with the court’s opinion but add these comments. During oral argument in this case, counsel for the Alabama Secretary of State lamented out of apparent frustration that the federal courts seem to believe that, with regard to the efforts of state officials to comply with1 § 5, “no matter what we do, we do it wrong.” This comment, while understandable, is not correct. I am aware, from evidence in other § 5 casés/that, in the 1980s and ’90s, Alabama state officials and their legal staff engaged in a Herculean effort to comb state .statutes and regulations and then submit to the.…