Summary
granting certiorari on the question "[w]hether Congress' decision in 2006 to reauthorize Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act under the pre-existing coverage formula of Section 4(b) ... violated the Tenth Amendment and Article IV of the United States Constitution"
Summary of this case from Bethune-Hill v. Va. State Bd. of ElectionsOpinion
No. 12–96.
11-09-2012
SHELBY COUNTY ALABAMA, petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit granted limited to the following question: Whether Congress' decision in 2006 to reauthorize Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act Under the pre-existing coverage formula of Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act exceeded its authority under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and thus violated the Tenth Amendment and Article IV of the United States Constitution.