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Article: Voting Rights Top Court Docket // Redrawn Districts Raise Fairness Doubts
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 4, 1993
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WASHINGTON The Supreme Court opens its 1993-94 term with three
voting-rights cases that could result in new rules on what it takes
to give minorities a legitimate voice at the polls, and when remedies
go too far.
Legal experts hope the cases from Florida and Georgia, to be
argued today when the justices return from summer recess, will
clarify the court's views on what protection the federal Voting
Rights Act of 1965 offers to minority voters.
But the cases just as easily could create more confusion,
experts say.
Many legal observers are unsure how to interpret the court's
ruling in a North Carolina case last June that let white voters
challenge a bizarrely shaped congressional ...