PROSECUTORIAL CRIMES AND CORRUPTION: THE (WHITE) ELEPHANT IN THE COURTROOM
This article is from the Childress Lecture Series and part of the St. Louis University Law Journal publication (Summer 2017). Also included are articles from Stephen B. Bright, Stephen Hanlon, Brandon Buskey, Michael Barrett, Norman Lefstein, Sean D. O’Brien, Mark E. Olive, Cynthia Short, Alexander L. Ledbetter and Mary K. Mullen.
In Shelby v. Holder in 2013 and Louisiana v. Callais in 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court took two machete swipes at the Voting Rights Act of 1965, gutting the key elements that protect voting rights for African Americans. Black citizens wonder aloud as to why there needs to be special provisions and reauthorizations for a right that supposedly comes with U.S. citizenship.
Repression, racism, and war are features of imperialism that have consistently raised their ugly heads under the trump administration.
Today, we find ourselves without voter protections and potentially just a legislative action or court ruling away from no right to vote.
