When the Supreme Court grants review of a case, it usually accepts the wording of the “question presented” by the petitioner’s brief.
In granting certiorari on Nov. 9 in the voting rights case Shelby County v. Holder, the court did a slight rewrite of the question offered by Shelby County, adding the Fourteenth Amendment to the caseand giving a glimmer of hope to worried supporters of the Voting Rights Act.
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