White agreed with the majority that the state can permissibly impose qualifications on the officers of Local 54.
If Section 86 merely imposed qualifications on union officials, White concluded, the law would not be preempted by the NLRA.
Sixty-five percent of the forms addressed a child's possible ability to withdraw, none of which imposed qualifications such as demonstrable competence and maturity in making such a decision.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, renewed by Congress in 2006, prohibits states from imposing any qualification for voting "that has the purpose of or will have the effect of diminishing the ability of any citizens of the United States on account of race or color".
"And to impose additional qualifications would require a change in the bylaws".
"Federal law governs federal elections, and the Supreme Court has made it clear that states cannot impose additional qualifications beyond those in the Constitution," said Doug Stafford, a Paul senior adviser.
(Should we go back to the days when states, arguing that only men of sufficient substance could be trusted, imposed property qualifications for voting?) Even if Mr. Bush is talking only about the economic future, don't workers have as much stake as property owners in the economy's success?
Of course, some American states did impose "literacy" qualifications, often in an attempt to exclude African-Americans from voting, but aside from African-Americans in southern states, essentially all American men could vote by the Civil War.
But the "challenged provisions simply repeal or scale back conveniences…in no respect do they impose additional qualifications or barriers to vote".
In an attempt to forestall organized crime influence over labor unions, Sections 86 and 93 of the act imposed certain qualifications on officials of labor organizations representing casino industry workers.
