Legal Opinion
Veasey v. Perry
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided October 9, 2014No. Civil Action No. 13-CV-00193PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NELVA GONZALES RAMOS, District Judge.
The right to vote: It defines our nation as a democracy. It is the key to what Abraham Lincoln so famously extolled as a “government of the people, by the people, [and] for the people.”1 The Supreme Court of the United States, placing the power of the right to vote in context, explained: “Especially since the right to exercise the franchise in a free and unimpaired manner is preservative of other basic civil and political rights, any alleged infringement of the right of citizens to vote must be carefully and meticulously scrutinized.”2
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2Cases cited94 opinions
- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Yick Wo v. HopkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by33 opinions
- Marc Veasey v. Greg AbbottCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2016
- Valenti v. LawsonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2018
- Texas Democratic Party v. Greg Abbott, GoveCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2020
- Veasey v. PerrySupreme Court of the United States · 2014
- Veasey v. AbbottCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2015
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