Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee

Decided July 1, 2021. Samuel A. Alito Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 19-1257 · 594 U.S. 647 (2021) · Cited 94 times

Holding

Arizona’s challenged voting regulations governing precinct-based election-day voting (rejecting ballots cast in the wrong precinct) and early mail-in voting (making it a crime for anyone other than an authorized proxy to possess the early ballot of another voter) do not violate §2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965; Arizona House Bill 2023 (enacting the early mail-in voting regulations) was not enacted with a racially discriminatory purpose.

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How the Justices voted

Decided 6–3.

“Concurring” means agreeing with the outcome; any split shown is the Court’s judgment, not each Justice’s reasoning. The lineup is the syllabus’s disposition of who wrote and joined each opinion. Source: the opinion’s syllabus (supremecourt.gov).

Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• Thornburg v. Gingles · 478 U.S. 30 (1986)
• Shelby County v. Holder · 570 U.S. 529 (2013)
• Johnson v. De Grandy · 512 U.S. 997 (1994)
• City of Mobile v. Bolden · 446 U.S. 55 (1980)
• Chisom v. Roemer · 501 U.S. 380 (1991)
• Crawford v. Marion County Election Board · 553 U.S. 181 (2008)
• South Carolina v. Katzenbach · 383 U.S. 301 (1966)
• Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · 470 U.S. 564 (1985)
• Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · 422 U.S. 405 (1975)
• White v. Regester · 412 U.S. 755 (1973)
• Holder v. Hall · 512 U.S. 874 (1994)
• Reno v. Bossier Parish School Board · 528 U.S. 320 (2000)
• Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · 429 U.S. 252 (1977)
• Washington v. Davis · 426 U.S. 229 (1976)
• Pullman-Standard v. Swint · 456 U.S. 273 (1982)
• Gomillion v. Lightfoot · 364 U.S. 339 (1960)
• Allen v. State Board of Elections · 393 U.S. 544 (1969)
• Oregon v. Mitchell · 400 U.S. 112 (1970)
• Purcell v. Gonzalez · 549 U.S. 1 (2006)
• City of Rome v. United States · 446 U.S. 156 (1980)
• Bartlett v. Strickland · 556 U.S. 1 (2009)
• Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona · 520 U.S. 43 (1997)
• Ricci v. DeStefano · 557 U.S. 557 (2009)
• United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · 200 U.S. 321 (1906)
• Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union · 521 U.S. 844 (1997)
• Staub v. Proctor Hospital · 562 U.S. 411 (2011)
• Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano · 563 U.S. 27 (2011)
• Smith v. Allwright · 321 U.S. 649 (1944)
• Burson v. Freeman · 504 U.S. 191 (1992)
• Whitcomb v. Chavis · 403 U.S. 124 (1971)

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