Lecture: Justin Levitt
Tuesday, October 15, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Psychology 105
This event is open to the public.
"The Future of Voting Rights after Shelby County v. Holder"
In the arena of voting rights, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." So wrote Professor Justin Levitt, quoting Rev. Martin Luther King, in testimony this summer before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Voting rights, Levitt continued, are not only fundamental, but are "uniquely resistant to normal modes of enforcement; they are extraordinary rights in need of extraordinary protection." But what form will this enforcement take? Legal scholars have been warning for years that the pre-clearance formula of the Voting Rights Act was at risk, but there is virtually no chance that a Congress that can't even agree to pay its debts will agree on a new coverage formula. These extraordinary rights are at extraordinary risk. We are pleased to welcome to Reed College a leading voting rights scholar to help our community understand these important legal and political issues. Justin Levitt is currently an associate professor of law at Loyola Law School, and has previously worked as the National Voter Protection Counsel for the Obama campaign in 2008 and served for five years as counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU Law School.
For more information, contact Paul Gronke or visit:
http://www.reed.edu/ppls/.
Submitted by Brittney Corrigan-McElroy.
Posted on Oct 4, 2013