Former Government Officials, Amici Curiae
Jeffrey M. Harris, Counsel of Record
The parties in this brief are eight former senior officials in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and a former deputy general counsel of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Jeffrey M. Harris is counsel with the law firm Bancroft, where he specializes in Supreme Court, appellate, and complex litigation. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioner as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on January 2, 2013. This Court has rarely mentioned Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in recent years without mentioning in the same breath the serious constitutional issues raised…
