Constitutional Law
Aug. 18, 2016
Protecting the right to vote
Recent federal court decisions have powerfully reaffirmed a basic constitutional principle: The government cannot act to suppress voting by racial minorities.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
A series of recent federal court decisions have powerfully reaffirmed a basic constitutional principle: The government cannot act to suppress voting by racial minorities.
In a number of states, Republican-controlled legislatures adopted laws that were clearly intended and unquestionably would have the effect of keeping African-Americans and Latinos from voting. Rulings in the last few weeks, by federal district courts and federal courts of appeals, striking down restrictive voting la...
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