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918 documents for fifteenth amendment text

- Bartlett v. Strickland, 556 U. S. ____ (2009)
... the relevant geographic area? Given §2’s text, the Court’s cases interpreting that provision, ..., §2 tracked, in part, the text of the Fifteenth Amendment . It prohibited practices “imposed or ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Tennessee v. Lane, 541 U.S. 509 (2004)
... State's motion to dismiss on Eleventh Amendment immunity grounds, the Sixth Circuit held the appea... is not itself forbidden by the Amendment's text." Kimel , 528 U. S., at 81. We have thus repeated... worded "enforce" provision of the Fifteenth Amendment (§2) to challenged provisions of the Vo...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Felon disenfranchisement: law, history, policy, and politics.
... and jurisprudence under the Fourteenth Amendment and the Voting Rights Act, and reviews the scope o... the Reconstruction Amendments was the Fifteenth, which was ratified in 1870 and extended the franc.... (24.) Id. at 585. . (25.) The full text of the Thirteenth Amendment reads, "Section 1. Nei...
- Fordham Urban Law Journal
- Vol. 32 Nbr. 5, September 2005

- Reno v. Bossier Parish School Bd., 528 U.S. 320 (2000)
... identical language in § 2(a) and the Fifteenth Amendment has been read to refer not only to retro... is simply an untenable construction of the text, in effect recasting the phrase "does not have the...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Joseph Hayden, on Behalf of Himself and all Individuals Similarly Situated; Lumumba Akinwole-Bandelle, Wilson Andino, Gina Arias, Wanda Best-Deveaux, Carlos Bristol, Augustine Carmona, David Galarza, Kimalee Garner, Mark Graham, Keran Holmes, Iii, Chaujuantheyia Lochard, Steven Mangual, Jamel Massey, Stephen Ramon, Nilda Rivera, Lillian M. Rivera, Mario Romero, Jessica Sanclemente, Paul Satterfield and Barbara Scott, on Behalf of Themselves and all Individuals Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. George Pataki, Governor of the State of New York; Carol Berman, Chairperson, New York Board of Elections; Glenn S. Goord, Commissioner of New York State Department of Correctional Services, Defendants-Appellees., 449 F.3d 305 (2nd Cir. 2006)
... power under the Reconstruction Amendments, the application of the Voting Rights Act to felon..., and we must therefore look beyond the plain text of the statute in construing the reach of its prov...'s decision was a departure from earlier Fifteenth Amendment precedents, as Justice Marshall had argu...
- Federal Circuits
- Section 4: Elections
... in 1870 as a means of enforcing the Fifteenth Amend-ment's guarantee against racial discriminati... Clause was superseded by the Twentieth Amendment. . ------------------------------------. 5 Stat. ...13. The text of these and other laws and the history of the ena...
- Constitution of the United States (Annotated)
- Hayden v. Pataki,, (2nd Cir. 2006)
... power under the Reconstruction Amendments, the application of the Voting Rights Act ..., and we must therefore look beyond the plain text of the statute in construing the reach of its prov...'s decision was a departure from earlier Fifteenth Amendment precedents, as Justice Marshall had argu...
- Federal Circuits
- Hayden v. Pataki, (2nd Cir. 2006)
... power under the Reconstruction Amendments, the application of the Voting Rights Act ..., and we must therefore look beyond the plain text of the statute in construing the reach of its prov...'s decision was a departure from earlier Fifteenth Amendment precedents, as Justice Marshall had argu...
- Federal Circuits
- Hayden v. Pataki, (2nd Cir. 2006)
... power under the Reconstruction Amendments, the application of the Voting Rights Act ..., and we must therefore look beyond the plain text of the statute in construing the reach of its prov...'s decision was a departure from earlier Fifteenth Amendment precedents, as Justice Marshall had argu...
- Federal Circuits
- From colorblindness to antibalkanization: an emerging ground of decision in race equality cases.
..., and so identifies a basis, grounded in the text of the decision and in several decades of constitu... unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. (28) But Loving, like Brown, promiscuously employ... matters--a goal that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments embody, and to which the Nation continu...
- Yale Law Journal
- Vol. 120 Nbr. 6, April 2011