In 2013, Shelby County v. Holder struck down the coverage provision of the voting rights act. This provision required state governments in areas that historically disenfranchised voters to require federal preclearance for changes in voting laws and practices. Since this decision, a variety of states have passed or are in the process of passing voting laws targeted to disenfranchise minorities that typically vote in patterns contrary to their self interests as legislators. This case, and the resulting voting laws that were passed in its wake, is the problem that is most important to me in our current political environment. The most obvious reason that this issue speaks to me is that such voting laws run contrary to the liberal democratic
