Court Opinion

ID: 9466883
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 01:31:27.970803+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:40:01.621817
License: Public Domain

JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judge,
concurring specially:
In Part III of his opinion, my brother RUBIN has ably attempted to resolve the conceded “ambiguity” of Bolden, viz., whether the Fifteenth Amendment applies to voting abuses of the sort here alleged. The entire discussion is dictum, however, because the panel — properly—rests its holding on the Fourteenth Amendment. Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, § 2, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1973 (West Supp.1980), as reenacted in 1975, derives from the Fourteenth *557Amendment, and since all Justices in Bol-den agreed that that Amendment reaches multimember districts adopted “invidiously to minimize or cancel out the voting potential of racial or ethnic minorities,” 100 S.Ct. at 1499 (plurality opinion), I concur in the result of Part III.
I join the remainder of the panel opinion.