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Voting Rights Case: The South Carolina Vs. Katzenbach Case

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The South Carolina vs. Katzenbach case was established based off the U.S. Supreme Court on the Voting Rights Act of 1965. On March 1965, the Voting Rights Act offered the federal government new powers to fight the alienation of African Americans prolonged by the southern government. Many Southerners didn’t approve Congress’ decision to pass this legislation. The people of the south argued and believed that the U.S congress had violated their states’ rights. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was basically written as a reinforcement of the fifteenth amendment. It does not allow racial discrimination in voting and was officially signed in to law by president at the time, Lyndon B. Johnson on August 6, 1965. South Carolina argued that the protested
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