Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Attorney General Sam Olens said the state’s argument against the Voting Rights Act is simple: “we’re no longer in 1964, there’s no longer poll taxes, there’s no longer cases where less than 50 percent of the minority population is voting.” Of Georgia’s 5.7 million registered voters about one-third are minorities.
The state of Georgia and its voters are being subjected to the continued extraordinary intrusion into its constitutional sovereignty through Section 5 and its outdated preclearance formula based upon discriminatory conditions that existed more than 47 years ago but have long since been remedied,” the state says in its filing.
Georgia may want to add this footnote. The President and the current leader for the Republican nomination are both black Americans.
Imagine arguing the constitutionality of Section 5 with Obama, Biden v. Cain, Rubio race as the backdrop. Perhaps Justice Thomas would get the nod from the rest of the court.