Good Evening. This week marks 60 years since the Voting Rights Act became law, and Axios has a photo essay to mark the occasion >
The unique way women lawyers show up for their immigrant clients
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Even though women make up 40% of the lawyers nationwide, they account for over 60% of immigration lawyers.
Jacqueline Watson, founding partner of JLW Immigration Law Group in Austin, Texas, isn’t surprised: “I think of all the areas of law, immigration is one of those that is very much a hands-on, helping profession…like, you’re just trying to balance all of this, and everybody has lives. My law partner has four school-age children. But she does it. We’re drawn to the challenge as well as the reward.”
Read the rest of The 19th deeply moving story about the unique struggles and care that women lawyers bring to the job.
Law professor answers the internet’s burning questions about the Supreme Court
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Steve Vladek is a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, and a nationally recognized expert on the courts.
The Voting Rights Act’s 60th birthday might be its last
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Louisiana redrew its map to better reflect the state’s population—a common remedy for racial gerrymandering. Conservative lawyers sued, and the case made it to the Supreme Court. Since then, the Court has been acting strange. First, it mysteriously delay its opinion until the Fall, and then ordered additional briefings.
This sent alarm bells to activists, who believe the conservative majority is gearing up for a final blow to the Voting Rights Act. Law professor Luis Fuentes-Rohwer at Indiana University Bloomington certainly believes so: “To me, this is it…I would bet my left arm that they will tell us that Section 2 is in violation of the Fifteenth Amendment.”
Democracy Docket published a deep dive on this existential threat, which you can read here.
