Constitutional Law,
Government,
U.S. Supreme Court
Apr. 13, 2021
Blame the Supreme Court
Amidst all of the discussion of Georgia’s very restrictive new voting law, the institution that is largely responsible is escaping blame: the United States Supreme Court.
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).
Amidst all of the discussion of Georgia's very restrictive new voting law, the institution that is largely responsible is escaping blame: the United States Supreme Court. The Georgia law likely would not have been adopted and surely could not go into effect without the Supreme Court's decision in 2013 in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder. The court, in a 5-4 decisio...
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