Legal Opinion
Briscoe v. Bell
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 20, 1977No. 76-60PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Marshall
At issue in this case is the construction of § 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U. S. C. § 1973b (1970 ed. and Supp. V). “The Voting Rights Act was designed by Congress to banish the blight of racial discrimination in voting.” South Carolina v. Katzenbach, 383 U. S. 301, 308 (1966). While the Act has had a dramatic effect in increasing the participation of black citizens in the electoral process, both as voters and elected officials, Congress has not viewed it as an unqualified success. Most recently, as part of the 1975 amendments to the Voting Rights Act, 89 Stat. 400, Congress…
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