Bloomberg Law

Battle to Dump Jim Crow-Era Voting Rules

Aug 5, 2019 · 7 min · 7.6 MB
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Mississippi hasn’t elected a black official statewide in more than 130 years. Rick Pildes, a professor at NYU Law School, discusses a lawsuit targeting Mississippi’s 1890 constitution as expressly crafted to stop African Americans from getting elected. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso.

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