Beware of Republicans bearing voting rights suits. (how the GOP is using the Voting Rights Act to carve out Republican election districts)

From: Washington Monthly | Date: February 1, 1987| Author: Cooper, Matthew | Copyright information

BEWARE OF REPUBLICANS BEARING VOTING RIGHTS SUITS

In December 1985, the Supreme Courtheard Thornburg v. Gingles, a case that seemed like it was torn from the pages of To Kill A Mockingbird. The case, which concerned racial gerrymandering in North Carolina, was a familiar confrontation of civil rights groups and their conservative opponents. On one side of the chamber stood the Reagan Administration's Solicitor General, Charles Fried, the attorney general of North Caroli...

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