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Constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act Goes to U.S. Supreme Court Conference on January 9, 2009: Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District #1 v. Mukasey (08-322)
A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is scheduled to be considered for argument by the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court during their conference on January 9, 2009. Because this lawsuit is on a direct appeal to the Supreme Court, the Justices must either affirm the lower court's opinion or schedule the case for oral argument. The results of this conference may be announced as early as the afternoon of the 9th.
Edward Blum will be available for comment. He is the director of the Project on Fair Representation (POFR), a not-for-profit legal defense fund which provided various resources for the plaintiff, a small suburban subdivision nearAustin, Texas. Blum testified before Congress during the 2006 VRA hearings, arguing that Section 5 should be allowed to expire. He has written extensively on the VRA and is author of The Unintended Consequences of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (AEI Press, 2007). Blum is also a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Greg Coleman will be available for comment. He is counsel for the plaintiff. He heads Yetter, Warden & Coleman's appellate litigation practice where he has successfully represented clients before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals, and numerous state supreme courts and intermediate courts of appeals. Mr. Coleman previously served as solicitor general for theState of Texas, where he was lead appellate counsel for the state. Prior to that, he clerked for Edith Hollan Jones ofthe United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for Clarence Thomas on the United States Supreme Court.
/PRNewswire - Jan. 5/
SOURCE Project on Fair Representation
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