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On Voting Rights, Please, No More Narrow Escapes

By Tracie Powell and CQ Guest Columnist
Posted June 23, 2009 at 12:00am

long hostile toward that law
renewed the act in 1996
consensus opinion
“full-frontal assault
nixed
Sonny Perdue
displeasure
voiding coalitional districts
wrote
SCOTUSBLOG.
Jim Crow disenfranchisement,
Tracie Powell is a former American Political Science Association congressional fellow who writes regularly on politics and policy.

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