QUESTION

Please choose one of the major cases (it still must be good law) that we have read during the course of the semester and explain your either think it was rightly OR wrongly decided. You can use materials from the course and any outside research to back up your contention that the case was either rightly or wrongly decided.
This paper should be a minimum of 6 pages, double spaced (do NOT add an additional space between paragraphs to make it look longer- I will notice) with standard margins and 12-point font size. The cover page does not count, nor does adding your name and other headings at the beginning to make it look longer than it is. The six pages start when your first paragraph starts. I will factor these things in if students do these things to try to make their paper look longer than it really is. Papers that are not the minimum will see their grade deducted. The works cited page also does NOT count towards the page minimum.
You may use any recognized academic citation method. However, you must have a separate works cited page (this does not count towards the page limits).
Students must have at least three outside sources for the paper. The best papers will also incorporate materials from the lectures and readings from the course.

These are the cases you may write on for the course paper:
The Right to Participate
Richardson v. Ramirez, 418 U.S. 24 (1974)
Gomillion v. Lightfoot, 364 U.S. 339 (1960)
Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15, 395 U.S. 621 (1969)
Burdick v. Takushi, 504 U.S. 428 (1992)
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, 383 U.S. 663 (1966)
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, 553 U.S. 181 (2008)
Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council, 570 U.S. ___ (2013)
Sandusky County Democratic Party v. Blackwell, 387 F.3d 656 (6th Cir. 2004)
Husted v. A. Phillip Randolph Institute, 584 U.S. ___ (2018)
Terry v. Adams, 345 U.S. 461 (1953)

Vote Dilution
Whitcomb v. Chavis, 403 U.S. 124 (1971)
White v. Regester, 412 U.S. 755 (1973)
City of Mobile v. Bolden, 446 U.S. 55 (1980)
Gaffney v. Cummings, 412 U.S. 735 (1973)
Karcher v. Daggett, 462 U.S. 725 (1983)
Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, 576 U.S. ___ (2015)
Rucho v. Common Cause, 588 U.S. ___ (2019)
Abbott v. Perez, 585 U.S. ___ (2018)

The Voting Rights Act
Allen v. State Board of Elections, 393 U.S. 544 (1969)
Beer v. United States, 425 U.S. 130 (1976)
Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013)
Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30 (1986)
Bartlett v. Strickland, 556 U.S. 1 (2009)
LULAC v. Clements, 999 F.2d 831 (5th Cir.) (en banc), cert. denied 510 U.S. 1071 (1994)
Johnson v. DeGrandy, 512 U.S. 997 (1994)
Holder v. Hall, 512 U.S. 874 (1994)
League of Women Voters v. North Carolina, 769 F.3d 224 (4th Cir. 2014)
Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee (2021)

Race and Redistricting
United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg v. Carey, 430 U.S. 144 (1977)
Shaw v. Reno, 509 U.S. 630 (1993)
Miller v. Johnson, 515 U.S. 900 (1995)
Easley v. Cromartie, 532 U.S. 234 (2001)
Georgia v. Ashcroft, 539 U.S. 461 (2003)
LULAC v. Perry, 548 U.S. 399 (2006)
North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. McCrory, 831 F.3d 204 (4th Cir. 2016), cert. denied, 137 S. Ct. 1399 (2017)
Bethune-Hill v. Va. State Bd. of Elections, 580 U.S. ___ (2017)
Cooper v. Harris, 581 U.S. ___ (2017)