What’s the answer to question 1 and 2? Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder In 2008,Calera, Alabama eliminated its sole black majority city council district byannexing a larger white area to it. The city did this despite preclearance rejectionby the Justice Department. The Justice Department then sued Calera to restorethe original district lines after the new white majority in that district voted toreplace the only black city councilman with a white one.Alabama's Shelby County, which includes Calera, then sued Eric Holder,President Barack Obama's attorney general and head of the Justice Department.The county claimed that the Voting Rights Act itself was unconstitutional.In 2013, the Supreme Court did not find the entire Voting Rights Actunconstitutional, but did rule that a key provision was. This was the section ofthe act that identified those covered states, counties, and towns that were subjectto preclearance of any changes in their voting laws.Writing for the 5-4 majority, Chief Justice John Roberts stated that the blackvoter suppression conditions in Alabama and the other states that were coveredby the Voting Rights Act in 1965 no longer existed. Black voter registrationand turnout in elections were now comparable and sometimes exceeded that ofwhite voters. Literacy tests were long gone. Many black people had beenelected to local, state, and federal offices throughout the South. Even Selma,Alabama, had a black mayor. "Nearly 50 years later, things have changed 1.Do you agree with Chief Justice Roberts or Justice Ginsburg in the ShelbyCounty decision that ended preclearance of voting changes by the statescovered by the Voting Rights Act? Why?2. Which one of the measures to expand the vote do you think is the best?Why?

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What’s the answer to question 1 and 2? Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder In 2008,Calera, Alabama eliminated its sole black majority city council district byannexing a larger white area to it. The city did this despite preclearance rejectionby the Justice Department. The Justice Department then sued Calera to restorethe original district lines after the new white majority in that district voted toreplace the only black city councilman with a white one.Alabama's Shelby County, which includes Calera, then sued Eric Holder,President Barack Obama's attorney general and head of the Justice Department.The county claimed that the Voting Rights Act itself was unconstitutional.In 2013, the Supreme Court did not find the entire Voting Rights Actunconstitutional, but did rule that a key provision was. This was the section ofthe act that identified those covered states, counties, and towns that were subjectto preclearance of any changes in their voting laws.Writing for the 5-4 majority, Chief Justice John Roberts stated that the blackvoter suppression conditions in Alabama and the other states that were coveredby the Voting Rights Act in 1965 no longer existed. Black voter registrationand turnout in elections were now comparable and sometimes exceeded that ofwhite voters. Literacy tests were long gone. Many black people had beenelected to local, state, and federal offices throughout the South. Even Selma,Alabama, had a black mayor. &#34;Nearly 50 years later, things have changed 1.Do you agree with Chief Justice Roberts or Justice Ginsburg in the ShelbyCounty decision that ended preclearance of voting changes by the statescovered by the Voting Rights Act? Why?2. Which one of the measures to expand the vote do you think is the best?Why?

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1.Do you agree with Chief Justice Roberts or Justice Ginsburg in the Shelby County decision that ended preclearance of voting changes by the states covered by the Voting Rights Act? Why?