Voting Rights Act Of 1965 Section 4

Voting rights act section 4 struck down by supreme court.
Voting rights act of 1965 section 4. The voting rights act. The act contains. As initially ratified the united states constitution granted each state complete discretion to determine.
Section 4 is or was before the shelby county v. The voting rights act of 1965 52 u s c. The supreme court issued a ruling today that section 4 of the voting rights act of 1965 is no longer constitutional overriding objections from civil rights proponents who say that it is one of.
The repeal of section 4. The decision is being seen as a challenge to the mission of the voting rights act passed in 1965. Voting rights act of 1965 background.
Section 5 of the voting rights act has essentially been nullified by a major decision from the supreme court. Section 4 a of the act established a formula to identify those areas and to provide for more stringent remedies where appropriate. The court overturned section 4 of the act in a 5 4 decision split along ideological lines.
Section 4 of the voting rights act when congress enacted the voting rights act of 1965 it determined that racial discrimination in voting had been more prevalent in certain areas of the country. 10301 et seq is further amended by inserting after section 4 the following. 1564 and it was.
Specifically the court overturned section 4 of the act which laid out the formula for determining which states had to seek approval prior to enacting new voting laws. While section 5 specifically addresses this requirement the ruling on section 4 renders section 5 ineffective. Whenever a state or political subdivision with respect to which the prohibitions set forth in section 4 a are in effect shall enact or seek to administer any voting qualification or prerequisite to voting or standard practice or procedure with respect to voting different from that in force or effect on november 1 1964 such state or subdivision may institute an action in the united states district court for the district of columbia for a declaratory judgment that such qualification.