Laughlin McDonald
Laughlin McDonald
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She had a room just down the hall from my brother and me. We shared a bathroom.
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The opinion of the court of appeals invalidating Ohio's discriminatory voting technology is exceptionally well-written and scholarly. It is a monument to the concept -- fundamental to American democracy -- of the equal right to vote.
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We're trying to build a record. We are anticipating a challenge to what Congress might do.
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Without these protections, it is likely that many of the advances of the past few decades would be wiped out by new barriers to voting.
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The court took a standard that was intelligible, easy to apply and turned it into something that is subjective, abstract and impressionistic.