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Ramirez is filed, though the Supreme Court upholds California's policies. [59] O'Brien v. Skinner upholds the rights of some people who are incarcerated to vote without interference from the government. [60] 1975. The Voting Rights Act is modified to provide voters information in Native American languages and other non-English languages. [61] [11]
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On April 6, 2017, when considering the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, in a party-line vote the Republican Senate majority invoked the so-called "nuclear option", voting to reinterpret Senate Rule XXII and change the cloture vote threshold for Supreme Court nominations to a simple majority of senators present and voting.
The Supreme Court's upholding of Mississippi's new constitution, in Williams v. Mississippi (1898), encouraged other states to follow the Mississippi plan of disfranchisement. African Americans brought other legal challenges, as in Giles v. Harris (1903) and Giles v. Teasley (1904), but the Supreme Court upheld Alabama constitutional provisions.
Florida Supreme Court Justice Meredith L. Sasso speaks during a hearing of oral arguments at the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. The hearing regards Florida's redistricting map ...
Decisions that do not note a Justice delivering the Court's opinion are per curiam. Multiple concurrences and dissents within a case are numbered, with joining votes numbered accordingly. Justices frequently join multiple opinions in a single case; each vote is subdivided accordingly.
The Supreme Court opens its new term Monday, hearing arguments for the first time after a summer break and with The post Affirmative action, voting rights headline Supreme Court’s cases for new ...