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When the Court decides cases of race-based legislative redistricting, it usually uses the totality-of-circumstances test.
Since Buckley v. Valeo, the Court has allowed government regulation of campaign spending and contributions.
According to the Court, Congress has the power to set a minimum age for voting in federal elections but not for state and local elections.
State legislatures are imbued with the power to apportion legislative districts for House races.
The Court ruled that Bush v. Gore presented a non-federal cases because the Florida Court’s decision was based on state law.
Crawford dealt with the constitutionality of voter ID laws.
The voting rights act was upheld in South Carolina v. Katzenbach.
The Nineteenth Amendment guarantees 18-year-olds the right to vote.
For the first time since 1965, the Court Shelby County made clear that the voting rights act is constitutional.