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After Allen v. Milligan: The End of Racial Gerrymandering?
On November 4, 2021, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law a new congressional map that redrew boundaries for the state’s seven districts. The map included only one majority-Black district, despite the fact that African Americans compose over 27% of the state’s population. Civil rights advocates quickly contested the redrawn congressional map claiming that it violated Section II of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting power of Alabama’s Black population. In January 2022, a panel of three federal judges determined that Alabama’s map violated Section II of the Voting Rights Act. The state of Alabama then accelerated Allen v. Milligan (2023) to the Supreme Court to answer an important question: did Alabama’s 2021 redistricting plan dilute Black voting power and violate the Voting Rights Act?
In a decision that surprised many, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, struck down Alabama’s congressional map on the grounds that it violated Section II of the Voting Rights Act and diminished Black voting power. The decision had an immediate impact, with Alabama being required to draw a new map reflecting the state’s demographic makeup. The larger implications of this decision remain to be seen, but with similar cases on dockets across the country, the influence of Allen v. Milligan may be revealed soon.
Atiba Ellis, J.D., is the Laura B. Chisolm Distinguished Research Scholar and Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. A nationally noted voting rights scholar, his primary research focuses on how racial and class-based oppression interact continues to abridge and deny the right to vote to communities on the margins of American democracy. His work has analyzed voter identification laws for their socioeconomic effects, situated felon disenfranchisement laws as enforcing a political underclass, analyzed the theoretical scope of the Citizens United decision and described the ideological drivers of vote suppression. His work is interdisciplinary in nature, spanning doctrinal legal analysis, critical political theory, race and the law, legal history, and innovative legal pedagogy.
Professor Ellis’s current research focuses on how ideologically driven conceptions of “wrongful voters” diminish the right to vote. He has also written on critical legal theory and legal history. Moreover, he is currently working with his co-authors to publish a new edition of the late Derrick Bell’s foundational textbook, Race Racism and American Law.
In a decision that surprised many, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, struck down Alabama’s congressional map on the grounds that it violated Section II of the Voting Rights Act and diminished Black voting power. The decision had an immediate impact, with Alabama being required to draw a new map reflecting the state’s demographic makeup. The larger implications of this decision remain to be seen, but with similar cases on dockets across the country, the influence of Allen v. Milligan may be revealed soon.
Atiba Ellis, J.D., is the Laura B. Chisolm Distinguished Research Scholar and Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. A nationally noted voting rights scholar, his primary research focuses on how racial and class-based oppression interact continues to abridge and deny the right to vote to communities on the margins of American democracy. His work has analyzed voter identification laws for their socioeconomic effects, situated felon disenfranchisement laws as enforcing a political underclass, analyzed the theoretical scope of the Citizens United decision and described the ideological drivers of vote suppression. His work is interdisciplinary in nature, spanning doctrinal legal analysis, critical political theory, race and the law, legal history, and innovative legal pedagogy.
Professor Ellis’s current research focuses on how ideologically driven conceptions of “wrongful voters” diminish the right to vote. He has also written on critical legal theory and legal history. Moreover, he is currently working with his co-authors to publish a new edition of the late Derrick Bell’s foundational textbook, Race Racism and American Law.
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The French Elections
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Marijuana Legalization and Federalism
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Quien iba a pensar en 2022 Macron va estar defendiendo a Rusia y de paladín de Putin en para quitarle influencia q la UE
Se ve interesante el titulo como soy el único comentando ya les mencionaré que me pareció la conferencia
very interesting presentation, thank you for sharing it. also love the enthusiasm of the camera
Yuhan Xia 😍😍😍
What happened to the mic? Great lecture tho
Very sad to hear Prof Vogel's passing this past weekend. I enjoyed listening to his tal here. You could hear perspectives gained from approximately six decades of study of Chinese Politics, something junior scholars like us could only marvel . @ Prof Ezra Vogel.
Read the Intercept.
True incase of few for profit Universities. In context of India - All IITs and IIMs Directors are distinguished academicians. Not ranked amongst top 100 but graduated students are CEOs of many Fortune 500 companies.
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I hate this class.
Deng Xiaoping was to my mind the greatest leader that the world has ever produced. China is truly blessed.
Well, that's the bureaucracy of a modern, contemporary University - "a Multiversity."
I disagree that all democracies can lower infant mortality rate. Taiwan and South Korea as Prof. McGuire mention are high literacy societies with Confucianist background. They have a strong education programs. Taiwan under Authoritarian leader General Chiang Kai-Shek and South Korea under General Park Chung Hee were not Democratic at the time of rapid economic growth. They had investment in social services programs that brought down infant mortality rates to low levels. Brazil and Argentina are tried to be democratic and they had slower decline of infant mortality rates. They had a poor education and poor communication. Healthcare effectiveness is based on society being able to implement and follow what the government says and also how effective the government is. For some countries, democracy may work and for some it doesn't. Look at Haiti in the Caribbean and Liberia in Africa. They tried to be Democratic. Why did they fail? They had incompetent leaders and ineffective bureaucracies and political instability. I think moralful educated elites in charge of strong Bureaucracies, leadership competence, education, access to wealth, and communication are far more important than saying democracies helps in doing this and that. There are too many factors to say democracy itself can help solve infant mortality rate decline. He even said 36:13 "short term demographic practice had no association with infant mortality rate." He makes a vague statement 36:16 "long term democractic experience had a strong association in the expected direction." Then, he makes a reference to dictator Pinochet who implemented those policies. He implemented good healthcare policies for his people especially women and children. To negate his long term democratic experience comment, good long term authoritarian regimes also have a good experience in lowering infant mortality. I don't know Prof. McGuire can draw such erroneous conclusions. He should read the works of Prof You-tien Hsing expert in Political Economy of Development in East Asia. Authoritarian competent leadership was tied with lowering infant mortality rates effectively for Taiwan and South Korea before they democratized. Seems like McGuire has a sense of pro democracy bias due to his experiences in America. His specialty is Latin America not East Asia. I recommend that he do stronger research in East Asia and look into failed cases of democracy tied to high emphasis in social services. For example, Venezuela. I am shocked that such a socialistic country such as Venezuela is not mentioned in his case study. He made no mention of Singapore. Singapore as you know was a developing country that achieved a high Human Development Score and rapid development under an authoritarian state under the disguise of democracy. Lee Kuan Yew led Singapore for over 30 years with strong fisted rule. McGuire doesn't pick Singapore. Why? Because it weakens his shitty argument of 36:50 "Evil Dictators." Not all dictators are evil. If you look at the East Asian Tigers (South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore), it would show competent leaders and bureaucracy, and political stability are more important than Democratic incompetent leaders and weak bureaucracies. P.S. My background is in Geography. I graduated from Sac State but took several geography classes in Berkeley under Prof You-Tien Hsing.
The book provides an invaluable insight into the national student protest issues South Africa is facing right now.
if there was democracy in china it would have been other india more than 700 million would not be bought out of poverty line
There are two key changes in University culture which were not hit upon and I think their lack of mention indicates the elitist framework from which the presenter begins his analysis. The first is rapid increase in student tuition. The second is the rise of adjunct faculty taking over teaching responsibilities from tenured faculty. Instead of the incessant anecdotal evidence the presenter should integrate these two consequences of increase administration into his presentation.
Holy shit is Rosenthal a very dishonest person.
Thanks for uploading the video!
If heterosexual marriage needs to recognized by all states, why not the same sex marriage?
Why marriage is moral issue and not the debt.
In recent history, there is no precedence on sexual freedom, either.
There is no precedence in recent history only, mostly dominated by religion.
Government must not be involved in the business of marriage.