The Supreme Court has to clean up Congress's Voting Rights mess.
The judiciary is following the nation's growing sentiment that race and ethnicity should play a smaller role in our public policies. Here is how Congress can follow.
A statute to ensure the voting rights of minorities in 1965 has become a gerrymandering tool to further the interests of political parties and incumbent politicians.
We should end the use of race, ethnicity--and gender--in the awarding of federal contracts.
In early October, the Supreme Court will be presented with one of the most important voting rights cases of the last two decades.
John McCain gains nothing by embracing the same flawed civil rights vision as Barack Obama. Instead, he should advocate for colorblind policies.
The Secure Americathrough Verification and Enforcement Actand the Prevention of Unsafe Licensing Act address certain immigration problems but ignore others.
Barack Obama, behind in the polls, is leading the charge against Bush's FEC nominee Hans von Spakovsky.
The Access to Capital Coalition claims raising taxes on hedge-fund operators will adversely affect women and minorities.
A Texas lawsuit seeks to show that 1960s-era oversight is no longer neeeded.
The latest abuse of the Voting Rights Act.
FEC nomineeHans von Spakovsky will likely encounter unwarranted criticism and character assassination from Democrats in this week's Senate confirmation hearing.
Watch the GOP reactions to the Supreme Court school cases.
Allowing a Democratic Justice Department to enforce minorities' preferences for Democratic members of Congress could be disastrous for Republicans.
AEI Online
April 25, 2007
Is the enforcement of Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act absolutely necessary, or is it simply an extra burden on taxpayers' wallets?
Voting is the vital mechanism of democracy, and the government should make every effort to ensure that elections are accessible and fair to everyone, regardless of the language he speaks.
Edward Blum writes that Obama's candidacy poses a challenge to race relations--and a unique opportunity.
The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative is avictory for justice.
It simply isn’t 1965 anymore in the Deep South.
The Bush administration should either make the principled argument that preferences to achieve diversity in K-12 grades is wrong and defend it courageously in public--or stay out completely.
A summary of the Voting Rights Act papers by Bullock and Gaddie, part of the AEI Policy Series.
A summary of Bullock and Gaddie's report on the effects in Arizona of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
A summary of research findings on the impact of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in Alabama.
Ban preferences on the basis of skin color and race for anyone here, whether they came over on the Mayflower or last week.
How will Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act affect minority voting?
A summary of Bullock and Gaddie's assessment of the Voting Rights Act in New York
AEI Online
April 26, 2006
An executive summary of Bullock and Gaddie's expert report on the Voting Rights Act in Tennessee.
AEI Online
April 25, 2006
An executive summary of Bullock and Gaddie's expert report on the Voting Rights Act in Oklahoma.
AEI Online
April 25, 2006
An executive summary of Bullock and Gaddie's expert report on the Voting Rights Act in Arkansas.
AEI Online
April 17, 2006
An assessment of the Bullock-Gaddie expert report on voting rights in Mississippi.
A summary of Charles S. Bullock and Ronald Keith Gaddie's study on voting rights progress in California.
AEI Online
March 24, 2006
A summary of Charles S. Bullock and Ronald Keith Gaddie's study on voting rights progress in Alaska, Michigan, New Hampshire, and South Dakota.
Demand is falling for minority-oriented businesses.
If voters are sick and tired of politicians choosing their constituents instead of us choosing them, it’s up to voters to fix the problem, not judges.
Gerrymanders are barriers to competitive, democratic elections. But the only thing worse than a gerrymander is a judge trying to fix one.
AEI Online
February 10, 2006
A summary of Bullock and Gaddie's study on voting rights progress in parts of Florida.
This testimony cites ambiguity in USSC precedent and coinciding disparities as reasons for clearly defined guidelines for fairness in equal opportunity education at the highest level.
AEI Online
January 25, 2006
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act has been distorted to ensure that racial considerations are heavily weighted in drawing electoral maps.
Government memos leaked to the press are nothing new in Washington, yet they can still command a front page, above-the-fold headline.
The pre-clearance provision of the Voting Rights Act was essential in 1965.Now it is no longer necessary, and the racial and partisan ends for which it is used are not inour interest.
Section 5 has degenerated into an unworkable, unfair, and unconstitutional mandate that is bad for our two political parties, bad for race relations, and bad for our body politic.
AEI Online
October 10, 2005
A summary of Bullock and Gaddie's study on voting rights progress in Texas.
AEI Online
October 5, 2005
A summary of Bullock and Gaddie's study on voting rights progress in Georgia.
AEI Online
October 1, 2005
A summary of Bullock and Gaddie's study on voting rights progress in Louisiana.
AEI Online
October 1, 2005
A summary of Bullock and Gaddie's study on voting rights progress in Virginia.
AEI Online
October 1, 2005
A summary of Bullock and Gaddie's study on voting rights progress in South Carolina.
The Civil Rights Act was worth celebrating, but it was never justified in Texas situation.
Congress should let the VRA's emergency provisions expire: They're not needed, they have lost their logic, and they create mischief.
The immediate issue is the reauthorization of the "emergency" provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Repeatedly extended, they are now due to die on Aug. 6, 2007.
AEI Online
January 1, 1970
A summary of Bullock and Gaddie's study on voting rights progress in North Carolina.
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