Read the DOJ’s 5th Circuit Brief in the Texas Voter ID Case
Here. … Continue reading
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Student Voting Rights Case Filed in TN”
Release: A federal lawsuit was filed today in the U.S. District Court in Nashville challenging Tennessee’s voter ID law as violating the voting rights of Tennessee college and university students. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a student organization … Continue reading
“Fifth Circuit Should Uphold Ruling Striking Down Texas’s Discriminatory Photo ID Law”
Brennan Center press release: Texas’s strict photo ID law violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and was passed by the Texas Legislature with intent to discriminate, argues a brief filed todayin the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals by … Continue reading
“Texas Voters Urge Fifth Circuit to Uphold Ruling Striking Down Texas Voter Photo ID Law”
Release: Today in Veasey v. Abbott, attorneys at the Campaign Legal Center, who serve as co-counsel for plaintiffs Congressman Marc Veasey, LULAC, and a group of Texas voters, filed a brief urging the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold … Continue reading
“Election panel GOP wants to eliminate is back in action”
USA Today reports. … Continue reading
“Proportional Voting Through the Elections Clause: Protecting Voting Rights Post-Shelby County”
Conner Johnston has written this student note for the UCLA Law Review. … Continue reading
Read the State Court Order Requiring NC Voter ID Case to Go to Trial
Here. Commentary from Robbin Stewart. … Continue reading
“Wake judge allows case on voter ID law to proceed to trial”
News and Observer: A Wake County judge has refused to dismiss a challenge to North Carolina’s voter ID law, saying in a ruling issued Friday that most of the claims in the lawsuit are strong enough to take to trial. … Continue reading
“The Next Attack on Voting Rights; And why Democrats should fight for a constitutional right-to-vote amendment.”
Jamelle Bouie for Slate. … Continue reading
WI Voter ID Opponents File #SCOTUS Reply to Get Court to Take Case
You can read the short reply here. The reply makes a good and important timing point: This case is the only vehicle that guarantees the Court an opportunity to address the constitutional and statutory questions surrounding restrictive voter ID laws before the 2016 … Continue reading
“Bousquet: Gov. Rick Scott cuts state losses in long voting fight”
Tampa Bay Times column. … Continue reading
Live Tweet of Attempt to Get Voter ID in RI
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WI Supreme Court Candidate Writes OpEd in Favor of Voter ID
It ends like this: Until the U.S. Supreme Court acts, Wisconsin must take every voter at his or her word that they are who they say they are. The issue of free and fair elections is one which transcends political … Continue reading
“Nevada will be latest battleground in voter ID wars”
WaPo reports. But it is “not a priority” for new Republican AG. … Continue reading
“Missouri: Another Try for a Voter ID Measure”
AP reports. … Continue reading
“Voter ID legislation abruptly stops, likely dead in Nebraska”
AP reports. … Continue reading
“New evidence shows election officials are biased against Latino voters”
The Monkey Cage. … Continue reading
“Voter photo ID bill prompts filibuster”
News from Nebraska. … Continue reading
“Will the U.S. Supreme Court Weigh in on Wisconsin’s Voter ID Law?”
Express Milwaukee reports. … Continue reading
“Voting rights for minorities threatened, experts say”
Gannett reports. … Continue reading
“New Lawyers’ Committee Publication: ‘2014 Election Protection Report: Democracy Should Not Be This Hard'”
The Executive Summary is here and the full report is here. … Continue reading
“The Mystery of Lower Voter Registration Rates of Older Black Voters”
Nate Cohn for The UpShot. … Continue reading
“UPDATED: Portman joins Husted’s questions about Obama encouraging voter fraud”
Ohio. … Continue reading
“Kansas Secretary Of State Says His Voter Suppression Crusade Is Meant To ‘Protect Immigrants’”
Think Progress. … Continue reading
“Kobach voter-fraud allegations exposed as fraudulent”
We don’t call it the “Fraudulent Fraud Squad” for nothing. … Continue reading
“Diverse Coalition of Civil Rights and Legal Groups File Briefs Urging Supreme Court to Address Voter ID as Issue of National Importance”
From the “be careful what you wish for” department: A broad alliance of civil rights and legal groups representing the communities most impacted by Wisconsin’s restrictive voter ID law, as well as all 46 members of the Congressional Black Caucus, … Continue reading
At #SCOTUS, Wisconsin Files Its Voter ID Opposition to Cert. Petition
Read it here. … Continue reading
“GOP-backed Indiana election law changes raise concerns they’ll make voting more difficult”
AP reports. … Continue reading
“How The Voting Debates Will Be Different In 2015″
Pam Fessler for NPR: State legislatures are back in session, under more Republican control now than at any other time in U.S. history. One issue they’ll be debating a lot is voting — who gets to do it and how. … Continue reading
“These 5 states could be next to pass voter ID”
Zack Roth reports for MSNBC. Chapin comments. … Continue reading
“Democrats open new front in voting wars in Oregon”
Reid Wilson for WaPo. … Continue reading
Texas Files Partially Redacted Brief in 5th Circuit Voter ID Appeal
Read it here. … Continue reading
“Judge to take several weeks to rule on NC voter ID challenge”
Charlotte Observer. … Continue reading
“Want to Vote? Get Fingerprinted.”
Bloomberg View. … Continue reading
“Critics of NC’s voter ID law to present their case in court Friday”
This is a state court case. The federal case goes to trial in July. … Continue reading
“How Fair Rules Can Be Designed for Photo Identification at the Ballot Box”
Theodore Arrington writes at SSN. … Continue reading
“Lynch Pressed on Voting Laws at Confirmation Hearing”
Mike Sacks reports for BLT. … Continue reading
“Kobach defends suspended voter list; study shows 59 percent on list are eligible to vote”
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports. … Continue reading
Thumbprint As an Alternative to Voter ID for Voting?
I suggest it in The Voting Wars as a way to get around people losing their ids—as part of a bigger package including universal voter registration conducted by the federal government. Here’s a more limited proposal in that direction, and … Continue reading
“How to Protect the Vote: Democrats face significant obstacles in the fight to strengthen voting rights”
Ari Berman writes for The Nation. … Continue reading
“The Truth About Voter ID Laws”
Interesting Chicago Tribune editorial. … Continue reading
“Dave Helling: The ballot has become another partisan battleground”
Kansas City Star: Last fall, the courts repeatedly shot down Kobach’s attempt to keep Democrat Chad Taylor on the U.S. Senate ballot. (“The law is very clear,” Kobach said at the time. Apparently, not clear enough.) He pushed through a … Continue reading
“Conservatives’ wish list for GOP retreat includes citizenship, voting bills”
Politico: The list also includes a bill King introduced in the last Congress that would change the rules determining who is considered a U.S. citizen, plus legislation from Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas that would require a “proof of citizenship” … Continue reading
“Husted to seek review of 2014 election”
AP reports from Ohio. … Continue reading
“Supreme Court could rule on Wisconsin voter ID law”
Zack Roth reports for MSNBC. … Continue reading
“Challenge to Wisconsin Voter ID Law Heads to Supreme Court”
Tony Mauro reports for BLT. … Continue reading
Breaking: Challengers to Wisconsin Voter ID Law Seek Supreme Court Review
You can find the just-filed cert. petition at this link. The petition raises both a constitutional equal protection challenge and a challenge under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. I think there is a pretty good chance the Supreme … Continue reading
Chapin on Hasen on The Purcell Principle
Here: Hasen’s second point – that the Court should explain itself eventually in election law cases, even if opinions are not possible right away – is the most important part of the article, in my opinion. I’m already on record … Continue reading
“Year-End Round Up on Elections and Voting Rights”
Goldfeder and Perez. … Continue reading
“Reining in the Purcell Principle”
I have posted this draft on SSRN (for a March symposium on voting rights for the Florida State University Law Review). Here is the abstract: About a month before the 2014 election, the United States Supreme Court issued a series of … Continue reading