28 U.S.C. § 1344 — Election disputes
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 646 to r/title-28-JUDICIARY-AND-JUDICIAL-PROCEDURE · 142 words · no verdicts yet
This section gives United States district courts original jurisdiction over certain civil actions to recover possession of an office when the only issue about the title to the office arises because a citizen was denied the right to vote due to race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This jurisdiction does not cover the office of elector of President or Vice President, United States Senator, Representative or delegate to Congress, or member of a state legislature, and extends only as far as needed to decide the parties’ rights to the office based on that denial of the right to vote.
The district* courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action to recover possession of any office, except that of elector of President or Vice President, United States Senator, Representative in or delegate to Congress, or member of a state legislature, authorized by law to be commenced, where in it appears that the sole question touching the title to office arises out of denial of the right to vote, to any citizen offering to vote, on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.
The jurisdiction under this section shall extend only so far as to determine the rights of the parties to office by reason of the denial of the right, guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States and secured by any law, to enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in all the States.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 932.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 646 · 62 Stat. 932
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