Government,
Civil Rights
Aug. 10, 2018
Defense uses case law against witness in voter rights trial
The defense got its turn in a voting rights trial Thursday to cross-examine a plaintiff’s witness, questioning the credentials and legal support of the social sciences historian who had said Santa Monica’s at-large election system was installed with discriminatory intent in 1946, which lead to 72 years of racially polarized voting.
LOS ANGELES -- Citing case law, the defense got its turn in a voting rights trial Thursday to cross-examine a plaintiff's witness, questioning the credentials and legal support of the social sciences historian who had said Santa Monica's at-large election system was installed with discriminatory intent in 1946, which lead to 72 years of racially polarized voting.
The historian, Morgan Kousser, has emerged as one of the plaintiff's k...
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