Republicans Think There Is a ‘Takeover’ Happening. They Have Some Reading to Do.
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- Publish Date:
- January 21, 2022
- Author(s):
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- Bouie, Jamelle
- Source:
- The New York Times
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Summary
The legal scholar Pamela S. Karlan put it this way in a 2006 report on the Voting Rights Act: “The Supreme Court’s recent decisions under the elections clause have confirmed the longstanding interpretation of the clause as a grant of essentially plenary authority.” In other words, Congress has absolute, unbending power to regulate federal elections as it sees fit.
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