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Federal appeals court holds states have no sovereign immunity under Voting Rights Act

February 5, 2020

Via: Jurist

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed on Monday that Congress abrogated state sovereign immunity in the Voting Rights Act (VRA). The original complaint filed by the Alabama NAACP alleged that Alabama’s “at-large election method[s] for the Supreme Court, Court of Criminal Appeals and Court of Civil Appeals [violate] Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.” Section 2 of the VRA prohibits states from instituting racially discriminatory election practices. The complaint notes that not a single judge position at any of these three courts has been filled by an African-American in the last fifteen years.

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