Congressional Redistricting and the Voting Rights Act A Legal Overview

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. American Law Division

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Supreme Court.

United States.

Judge-made law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[United States] [publisher not identified] 2013

Summary:

Provides legal overview of key provisions of the Voting Rights Act affecting Congressional redistricting, as well as selected accompanying Supreme Court case law. Summarizes selected legislation in the 112th and 113th Congresses to establish additional requirements and standards for Congressional redistricting

This report is one in a series of updates. For the most recent coverage of this report series, please see 13-R4-2482a in the 2013 issue

Notes:

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Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed May 2014). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC

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Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. American Law Division. Congressional Redistricting and the Voting Rights Act

Publisher Number:

CRS-2013-AML-0183

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Restricted for use by site license