@article{425850,
      recid = {425850},
      author = {King-Meadows, Tyson,},
      title = {When the letter betrays the spirit voting rights  enforcement and African American participation from Lyndon  Johnson to Barack Obama / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Lexington Books,},
      address = {Lanham, Md. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxviii, 345 p.) :},
      year = {2011},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {When the Letter Betrays the Spirit examines the wide  latitude provided to the executive branch and to the  Supreme Court by the text of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  Drawing from government enforcement data, legislative  history, Supreme Court rulings, the 2006 reauthorization  debate on the VRA, and from the 2007 scandal involving the  firing of U.S. attorneys under the Bush Administration, the  book examines when, why, and how executive and judicial  discretion facilitates violation of voting rights.  Connecting Johnson to Obama, the book outlines why the  executive-centered model of voting rights.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/425850},
}