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South Carolina v. Katzenbach, 383 U.S. 301 (1966), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that rejected a challenge from the state of South Carolina to the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which required that some states submit changes in election districts to the Attorney General of the United States (at the time, Nicholas Katzenbach). [1]
The Senate passed its version by a 64–12 vote, and the House then passed it by a bipartisan 237–132 vote. [19]: 686–687 The legislation was enacted on June 17, 1970, as the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970. [20] President Nixon signed it into law on June 22. [2]: 204–205, 207
The Democratic National Committee asserted a set of Arizona election laws and policies were discriminatory towards Hispanics and Native Americans under section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. While lower courts upheld the election laws, an en banc Ninth Circuit reversed the decision and found these laws to be in violation of section 2 of ...
It was not until the federally passed Voting Rights Act of 1965 that these practices were outlawed. Despite the amendments post-Reconstruction laws limited voting rights. After the Civil War and ...
In 1821, the state of New York held a constitutional convention which removed property requirements for white male voters, but required that "persons of colour" own $250 worth of property, "over and above all debts," in order to vote. White male voters were instead required to pay a tax, but this rule was abolished in an amendment of 1826.
This amendment would have made district school board elections partisan again with candidates' political parties listed with their names on ballots, the way they were before voters decided to make ...
In 2022, Kentuckians rejected both amendments put on the ballot: Amendment 1, which would have let the legislature have greater control of its schedule; and Amendment 2, a proposal to make ...
Since 1999, only about 20 proposed amendments have received a vote by either the full House or Senate. The last time a proposal gained the necessary two-thirds support in both the House and the Senate for submission to the states was the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment in 1978. Only 16 states had ratified it when the seven-year ...