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he a nm mo, 22. The Sixth Circuit said: . .Un ced Siates v. Thomas, 1960, 3% _ the 15th Amendment. "Tf sharecropper-tenants in porsession of real estate under contract are “hreatene:, intimidated or coerced by the landlords for the tertsr> of interfering with their rights of franchise, crtziniy the fact that the coercion relates to itns or centracts would furnish no excuse or defense to Tne Lirtlerd for violati ng the law. 288 F. 24 653, 654%. 23. Judge Tuttle added: i "Thus, although the defendanzs here may have had an almost restricted right to inveke the Alabama tres- pass law to keep all servons iv Eévom neering upon their property after warning, i. 7 e of a desire exelusi Ve owne: si Lez to exercise _— ee interest in their preper 7... ¢ invoke the right of excludins ~onnie Brown, who had previously been givon Ixzs cecess to the Froperty, as a threat or Bars of coercion for the survose of interferire | tis Sttht-or the right cf others whom he revresentes in exercising their — risht to register and vote.” ae she constitutionality of various crounds than those at issue here. 1.5. 58, 60 S.ct. 612, 4 L. £4. 24 535; inited States v. Raines. 9, 362 U.S. 17, 80 S.ct. 519, 4 , Ed. 24 524; Hannah v. Larche; ; 363 U.s. 420, 80 S.ct. 1502, 4 4.54. 22 1507. 24. The Supreme Court has affircec provisio-s of the 1957 Act on otacr 22. Altrough ai statute thet is "necessary ané proper" legislation tc carry out the power of Congress to regulate elections for federal oftice my also be “appropriate Legisistion” to “enforce” the pro- visions cf the 15th, 14th, and i3th amendments. The predecessor of Sittion 1971(a) withstood attach on censtitutional grounds. In re Ec sle, 8 Fed. Cas.¢C.C.D.Md. 1877, 716, No. 4,488. It was held to be _a valid exercise of congressional power under the isth Amendment. Crapman \. King, 5 Cir. 1946, 154 F.2d 460, cert.denied, 327 U.S. 800; 2,14 Fed.Cas. 257, No. 7, 667. Kellogg .. Warmouth, ¢.C.D.ba. pot yestis, in part, on Section 2 of The Voting Rights Act of 196 13 ? 5 ¥ 26. “An abundance of judicial Cicts end holdings in analogous situa- tions make clear that the federal pever-to regulate elections extends equally'to the registration process. iny matter affecting the character or choice of the federal electorate is so integrally related : within the 'holding' of Van Alstyne, Anti-literacy ev. £93, 815(1963). to the election ultimately the election under article I, Test Legislation, 61 Mich. lL. ’