Eric H. Holder, Jr., Thomas E. Perez, et al., Amici Curiae
Samuel R. Bagenstos, Counsel of Record
Eric Holder served as attorney general under President Barack Obama. Thomas Perez is the current head of the Democratic National Committee. They are joined in this brief by 15 other current or former Democratic officials and activists. Samuel R. Bagenstos is a law professor at the University of Michigan, where he specializes in constitutional and civil rights litigation. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on September 22, 2017. Under Ohio’s “supplemental process,” the failure to vote is both the reason the State initiates its voter-purge procedure and the…