Commentary

For Voting Rights, Don’t Keep Section 5 Alive

By Quin Hillyer
Wednesday, May 23 2012

In important court cases, it is the rarely the dissenting opinion that becomes a benchmark. In a case decided last Friday by the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, however, Judge Stephen Williams issued a tour de force of a dissent, explaining why the federal government should not (in effect) hold entire states guilty of racial discrimination without current proof thereof. If, on appeal, the Supreme Court adopts his analysis, it could undo vast amounts of mischief carried out under the pretense of protecting voting rights. The case involves Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act – a…

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