LANSING, Mich. — The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has announced a multimillion-dollar investment into two races for the state Supreme Court, signaling the importance of the competition in the battleground state where control of the court is at stake. Michigan’s state Supreme Court elections are technically nonpartisan, meaning candidates appear on the ballot without a party designation and …
In a stunning 5–4 ruling issued last week in Allen v. Milligan, the Roberts Court, long a foe of the Voting Rights Act, upheld a key component of the VRA and struck down Alabama’s discriminatory congressional maps. It was not until Reconstruction that the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments each gave Congress the power to “enforce” the Constitution’s new guarantees …
