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Washington Supreme Court Upholds the State’s Voting Rights Act
As Ruth Greenwood, director of Harvard Law School’s Election Law Clinic — and counsel for amici curiae in support of the Latino voters — previously explained to Democracy Docket: “[State-level VRAs] are one of our best hopes, short of federal legislation, to fight back against the U.S. Supreme Court’s hostility to federal voting rights’ claims.”
From School Boards to City Councils, Local Redistricting Matters
Last week, two big cities saw updates in lawsuits challenging local council districts.
Several States Look To Pass Their Own Voting Rights Acts
In December 2021, Black voters and a handful of civic groups sued Baltimore County, Maryland under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The county had just completed redistricting with 2020 census data but the plaintiffs, including the Baltimore County NAACP, requested a map that better reflected the demographic changes of the past decade.