This essay for our symposium on the Voting Rights Act at the Supreme Court comes from Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review.  He filed an amicus brief on Cato’s behalf supporting the cert. petitions in Nix v. Holder and Shelby County v. … Continue reading Online VRA symposium: The Court should reconsider the constitutionality of the VRA’s outmoded and unworkable Section 5