Article: REP. CANNON ISSUES STATEMENT ON ON S.1257, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HOUSE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 2007

Article: SEN. LEAHY URGES PASSAGE OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 26, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... to vote. Under the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009, of which ... Judiciary Committee on District of Columbia voting rights in 2007. The proposed ... lesser action to grant District residents voting rights in the House of Representatives ...

Article: Race and Redistricting; No one is using the Voting ...
The Washington Post;  October 21, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... the idea of having districts for whites and districts for blacks as an ... preconditions for the Voting Rights Act to apply - then failure to draw a district plan that is fair ... practical purposes, the districts are only districts ...

Article: Voting rights districts: debunking the ...
Campaigns & Elections;  April 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... that the new black districts have been anything ... states with new black districts have been at essentially ... experience illustrates how voting rights districts do not necessarily ... creation of a new black district in Louisiana, the ...

Article: Beware of Republicans bearing voting rights suits. ...
Washington Monthly;  February 1, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... comply with the Voting Rights Act, Republican ... gains often came in districts where black voting ... lily-white district, switched parties ... tocomply with the Voting Rights Act in 1984, nearly ... pickups came in districts where lines had ...

Article: Expressive harms, "bizarre districts," and voting ...
Michigan Law Review;  December 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... power of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ... disturbances in voting-rights policy erupt ... geography of election districts "is one area ... alternatives that the Voting Rights Act exerts ... might be called a district appearance claim ...

Article: Voting Rights Top Court Docket // Redrawn ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  October 4, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... term with three voting-rights cases that could ... protection the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 offers ... congressional district designed to benefit ... voters. Election districts based on race ... interpretation of the Voting Rights Act," said ...

Article: SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN LEAHY ISSUES STATEMENT ON ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 6, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... to cosponsor the "District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009" to ... pass a version of a voting rights bill for the District of Columbia led by ... the power to grant District residents voting rights in the House of Representatives ...