Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Narrow tailoring, or some such as that

U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham, offers a constitutional counterargument against U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions' recent suggestion that the Voting Rights Act's preclearance requirements should be imposed nationwide: "If a widget manufacturer is found guilty of discriminatory conduct, a judge can't issue an order against all widget manufacturers in the U.S."