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" When a State exercises power wholly within the domain of state interest, it is insulated from federal judicial review. But such insulation is not carried over when state power is used as an instrument for circumventing a federally protected right. "
Nomination of James P. Coleman: Hearings Before a Special Subcommittee of ... - Page 75
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1965 - 164 pages
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Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Volume 3

United States Commission on Civil Rights - Civil rights - 1961 - 280 pages
...on the exercise of a similar State power with relation to rights protected by the Constitution: l88 When a State exercises power wholly within the domain...the imposition of an "unconstitutional condition." 7. Segregation North and West At least until 1954 State and local law required separate public schools...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 364

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1961 - 926 pages
...only colored citizens, of their theretofore enjoyed voting rights. That was not Colegrove v. Green. When a State exercises power wholly within the domain...condition." What the Court has said in those cases is equally applicable here, viz., that "Acts generally lawful may become unlawful when done to accomplish...
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Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations - 1962 - 712 pages
...rejected the contention that a State has unlimited power to establish its own boundaries. It held : "When a State exercises power wholly within the domain...instrument for circumventing a federally protected right * * *." The Court further held that if petitioners' allegations of denial of their constitutional rights...
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Literacy Tests and Voter Requirements in Federal and State Elections ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights - Literacy tests (Election law) - 1962 - 756 pages
...Lightfoot, the Tuskegee gerrymander case, in which the Supreme Court said, and I quote from the opinion : When a State exercises power wholly within the domain...Instrument for circumventing a federally protected right. I believe that we are justified in legislating for all elections upon the two bases which I have stated...
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Literacy Tests and Voter Requirements in Federal and State Elections ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights - Literacy tests (Election law) - 1962 - 712 pages
...from the opinion : When a State exercises power wholly within the domain of State Interest, it i.4 insulated from Federal judicial review. But such insulation...instrument for circumventing a federally protected right. I believe that we are justified in legislating for all elections upon the two bases which I have stated...
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Nomination and Election of President and Vice President, Pages 92-963

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments - Presidents - 1963 - 154 pages
...which equality of voting power may be evaded. As we stated in Gomillion v. Lightfoot, supra, p. 347: "When a State exercises power wholly within the domain...instrument for circumventing a federally protected right." The conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysburg...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 372

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1963 - 972 pages
...which equality of voting power may be evaded. As we stated in Gomillion v. Lightfoot, supra, p. 347: "When a State exercises power wholly within the domain...instrument for circumventing a federally protected right." The conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysburg...
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Voting Rights: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 5, 89th Congress, 1st ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1965 - 1226 pages
...Frankfurter, speaking for the Court in Gom'dlion v. Lightfoot, 364 US 339, 347, a 15th amendment case : When a State exercises power wholly within the domain...instrument for circumventing a federally protected right. The constitutional rule is clear: So long as State laws or practices erecting voting qualifications...
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1965 - 1566 pages
...Federal legislative interference. It adds nothing to emphasisize that such Insulation is not available when State power is used as an instrument for circumventing a federally protected right, for when a States' voting standards are, in fact, nondiscriminatory, they cannot lie an instrument...
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Voting Rights: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 5, Eighty-ninth Congress ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5 - African Americans - 1965 - 1200 pages
...Federal legislative interference. It adds nothing to emphasize that such insulation is not available when State power is used as an instrument for circumventing a federally protected ripht, for when a State's voting standards are, in fact, nondiscriminatory, they cannot be an instrument...
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