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[15] [16] Preclearance was the key feature of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 before it was rendered inoperable by the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder . Under the VRA, preclearance required jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination in voting to receive approval from the federal government before implementing any changes to ...
The Loyd Jowers trial, known as King family v.Jowers and other unknown co-conspirators, was an American wrongful death lawsuit brought to trial by the family of Martin Luther King Jr. against Loyd Jowers.
Tami Sawyer (born April 27, 1982) is an American politician and civil rights activist. [1] [2] She was elected in August 2018 as Shelby County Commissioner for District 7 and resides in Memphis, Tennessee. [3] She is a member of the Democratic Party. She serves as chair of the Education and Legislative committees. [4]
A man, detained at the Shelby Co. Jail, sits on the bottom bunk of a cell. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said the picture was taken in 2023, and it raises questions about cleanliness beyond the ...
The cause of death for Ramon McGhee, the man who died in Shelby County Jail custody covered in bed bugs and feces, was severe neglect with malnutrition and severe dehydration, Civil Rights ...
William Noel Morris (born September 29, 1932), [1] known as Bill Morris, is a Tennessee politician who served as mayor of Shelby County, Tennessee, including the city of Memphis. He also was a sheriff of the Shelby County Sheriff's Office. [2] He was the president of the Tennessee County Services Association, an organization of county officials ...
Taylor also took issue with the way the DA's office interacted with the Anderson case, saying it is "imperative the public know how" Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy "helped in ...
Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, 594 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case related to voting rights established by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), and specifically the applicability of Section 2's general provision barring discrimination against minorities in state and local election laws in the wake of the 2013 Supreme Court decision Shelby County v.