Supreme Court Sound Bites

Sound Bite: Facts of the case. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, of the suffrage amendment to the constitution of Oklahoma, known as the Grandfather Clause, and the responsibility of election officers under § 5508, Revised Statutes, and § 19 of the Penal Code[...]

Sound Bite: State constitution provisions existing before and in conflict with the Fifteenth Amendment are void. A provision in a state constitution recurring to conditions existing before the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the continuance of which conditions that amendment prohibited, and making those conditions the test of the right to the suffrage, is[...]

Sound Bite: State literacy tests by not be supervised by Federal Courts

Sound Bite: The Fifteenth Amendment does not give a right to vote, but it prevents racial discrimination in voting.