Wednesday, April 9, 2014
"The Future of Voting Rights in Indian Country Following Shelby County and Inter Tribal Council of Arizona"
The title of this post comes from this upcoming article by Professor Jeanette Wolfley, the abstract of which states:
This past term the United States Supreme Court issued two decisions involving voting rights – Shelby County v. Holder and Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona. The Court in Shelby County struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, and Inter Tribal Council held the National Voter Registration Act preempted Arizona’s election requirements. Scholars’ and practitioners’ focus on Shelby County has not considered the impact on Indian voters or reservation residents. This Article seeks to fill the gap by examining the Shelby County and Inter Tribal Council decisions, and strives to provide some insight and effective responses with regard to impacts on Native American voters across Indian country. It provides a comprehensive discussion of voting measures, actions, cooperative agreements and laws that should be considered and implemented by Indian tribes, states, the federal government, and Indian voters to address the void left by the two decisions.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civil_rights/2014/04/the-future-of-voting-rights-in-indian-country-following-shelby-county-and-inter-tribal-council-of-ar.html