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Thursday, February 28, 2013

A Voting Rights Champion

I'm happy to boast that this is my cousin Laughlin McDonald at the mike.  An attorney who has worked long and hard for civil rights and especially voting rights for minorities, he was a lawyer for the defendants in Shelby Co., Alabama v. Holder at the Supreme Court yesterday.  As we've talked about on Lucy Left, this is a big case challenging provisions of the Voting Rights Act (article or section 5 requiring certain states with histories of denying voting rights to submit plans for any changes in voting procedures to the Justice Department).    

 

Laughlin McDonald is also the author of several books and numerous articles on voting rights; he has served as Director of the Voting Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.  I'm a little more hopeful about the outcome of this case now that I know he was there.  (You can Google him to see the impressive books he's written.)



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