TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 9, 2019

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill Friday that would restore sections of the Voting Rights Act that once required officials in all or parts of 15 mostly Southern states to receive federal approval before making changes to their voting processes, the New York Times reports. The bill essentially reverses a 2013 Supreme Court decision that tossed out a “pre-clearance” provision that determined which jurisdictions needed federal oversight of elections. The White House opposed the bill arguing it was an unjustified expansion of government power.