Word: brinson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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William Danvers, an aide to Rep. Robert Garcia (D.N.Y.) and another participant in last night's K-School discussion, endorsed the Hyde-Edwards proposal after he contradicted Brinson's statements about the difficulty in implementing...
...Robert Brinson, city attorney for Rome, Ga., agreed that great progress had been made in the South and elsewhere in providing voting rights to minorities, but he said that certain provisions in the federal law "are a nightmare for local attorneys" and should be eliminated...
...Brinson has represented his Georgia town before the United States Supreme Court in an unsuccessful effort to end federal regulation of the city's election procedures...
...panelists also disagreed on whether certain provisions of the Voting Rights Act should be extended to all states. Brinson, echoing the sentiments of many southern officials said such an extension would make the legislation more equitable, but Ron Brown, chief counsel for the Democratic National Committee and a former lecturer at the K-School, said "effective enforcement would not be possible" if the Act were broadened to cover all states...