Damian Williams

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Sheltering Deprivations: FEMA, Section 408 Housing, and Procedural Redesign

116 Yale L.J. 1883 (2007).

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Reconstructing Section 5: A Post-Katrina Proposal for Voting Rights Act Reform

116 Yale L.J. 1116 (2007) Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA)—the preclearance provision that is the most potent weapon in the nation’s civil rights arsenal—quietly suffered an unexpected defeat in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The “static benchmarking test” used to administer section 5 failed to fulfill a core VRA mandate: the preservation of minority political power. This...