The South after Shelby County /

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Author / Creator:	Stephanopoulos, Nicholas, author.
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : Law School, University of Chicago, Nov. 13, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource (video file) (52 min., 5 sec.)
Language:	English
Series:	Chicago's best ideas Chicago's best ideas.
Subject:	United States. -- Voting Rights Act of 1965. Voting Rights Act of 1965 (United States) Suffrage -- Southern States. Voter registration -- Southern States. Election law -- Southern States. Election law. Suffrage. Voter registration. Southern States.
Format:	E-Resource Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10818168

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Other authors / contributors:	University of Chicago. Law School, host institution.
Notes:	Recorded Nov. 13, 2013. Online resource; title from title screen (Aug. 5, 2016).
Summary:	'In Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court dismantled one of the two pillars of the Voting Rights Act: Section 5, which had barred southern jurisdictions from changing their election laws unless they first received federal approval. The burning question now is what will happen to minority representation in the South in the absence of Section 5. In this talk, Prof. Stephanopoulos explores the differences between the defunct Section 5 and Section 2 of the VRA, which continues to apply nationwide. His sobering conclusion is that Section 2 provides substantially less protection with respect to both redistricting and franchise restrictions. The demise of Section 5 is therefore likely to reverse decades of progress for voting rights in the South."--Law School faculty podcast webpage.

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