• Royce Fellowship
Bradley
Silverman

Concentration 

Political Science and Economics

Award Year 

2012
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Under Democratic and Republican Administrations: Is There a Partisan Bias in Enforcement of Section 5?

Faculty Sponsor: Steven G. Calabresi (Northwestern University)

Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Justice Department must preclear all laws affecting voting in jurisdictions with histories of discriminatory voting practices. Using federal records dating back from 1965, Bradley will review each individual preclearance decision made by the Justice Department since the law's implementation and examine how presidential administrations over time have enforced the act. Bradley’s research analyzed White House partisanship and bureaucratic factors in Washington, D.C., and was informed by material from the Department of Justice, the National Archives, the Supreme Court and the Library of Congress.

Bradley was an intern at Lawyers Campaign for Civil Rights. In 2016, he completed his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is currently the Law Clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals.