Rawley
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Can you cite the language of Section 2 that you believe creates a private right of enforcement?That's the point. The Repubs want to make it so only state or federal attorneys can bring suits, not individuals. A major shift in precedent. The ruling had nothing to do with stopping frivolous suits.
“Literally hundreds of Section 2 cases have been filed over the past several decades, and hundreds of federal judges have ruled on the merits in these cases without blinking an eye,” Travis Crum, a voting rights expert and associate professor of law at Washington University in Saint Louis, told TPM. “But two judges on the 8th Circuit decided that these hundreds of other judges had just missed the issue for decades.”