Here is the amicus brief in Shelby County for me and a number of former civil rights offcials including Brad Reynolds, Chuck Cooper, Roger Clegg, Bob Driscoll, Brad Schlozman, Clint Bolick and some others.  Filed by the Bancroft firm.

One of the more important parts:

“Instead, both Congress and DOJ have taken a number of actions that have only exacerbated the already-serious constitutional flaws of Section 5. In the 2006 reauthorization of the VRA, Congress abrogated two of this Court’s most important decisions interpreting Section 5, Georgia v. Ashcroft, 539 U.S. 461 (2003), and Reno v. Bossier Parish School Board, 528 U.S. 320 (2000) (“Bossier Parish II“). Both of those decisions relied on the canon of constitutional avoidance and were critical to preventing an unconstitutionally overbroad application of Section 5. Yet the 2006 reauthorization discards Georgia and Bossier Parish II, and significantly expands the substantive grounds on which DOJ or the district court can refuse to preclear a change in voting procedures.”