@article{425850, note = {Description based on print version record.}, author = {King-Meadows, Tyson,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/425850}, 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,}, 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.}, recid = {425850}, pages = {1 online resource (xxviii, 345 p.) :}, address = {Lanham, Md. :}, year = {2011}, }