This is not the kind of a question you can leave to Congress: Judicial power, legislative authority, and voting rights enforcement

• In Event: Voice, Claims, and Representation: How Rights and Relationships Experience Federal Governments

Brief Overview

The Supreme Court's narrowing of the Voting Rights Act cannot be fully explained by conventional frameworks, but represents entrenchment of a minority faction able to have its decisions sustained that is unprecedented in American history.

Author

• Scott Lemieux, University of Washington