“The Election is Rigged After All — Against African Americans”
Eliza Newlin Carney for TAP.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Appeals courts are dismantling stricter voter ID laws”
Mark Walsh has written this extensive article in the ABA Journal.
“Chief Justice Roberts ‘Had It in for the Voting Rights Act;’ Now the lower courts are pushing back.”
Important Stephanie Mencimer piece in Mother Jones.
“Why the Justice Dept. Will Have Far Fewer Watchdogs in Polling Places”
Eric Lichtblau for the NYT:
The federal observer program has really been a hallmark of the Justice Department’s voting rights work,” Kristen Clarke, the director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said. That effort “has really… Continue reading
“Commentary: Trump’s voter fraud ‘solution’ is rooted in the Jim Crow South”
Kathryn Cramer Brownwell for Reuters Opinion.
The Menagerie that is Wisconsin’s Voter ID Law/Litigation
“Odd Texas voting law on interpreters scuttled before November election”
Texas Tribune:
Das died before the lawsuit was resolved, but her dilemma, laid out in court filings, is part of an ongoing legal battle over a little-noticed provision of Texas election requiring interpreters to be registered voters in the… Continue reading
Breaking: WI Voter ID Judge Won’t Scrap Law for Election, Will Order State to Give Better Information to Voters
See the series of tweets from Patrick Marley.
The judge apparently invoked the Purcell Principle against making changes too close to the election, but said plaintiffs could go back to 7th Circuit for emergency relief.
Marley: “Judge says he… Continue reading
“Scott Walker Says Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Is Working ‘Just Fine’—It’s Not”
Ari Berman:
Wisconsin shows how problems with voter-ID laws are a feature, not a bug.
2016 Emergency Election Litigation Update
With less than a month to do before election day, here are the three cases I’m watching most closely right now:
Will a federal judge in Wisconsin further soften that state’s voter id law, after evidence surfaced that the… Continue reading
ACLU Files 7th Circuit Merits Brief in WI Voter ID Case, Pointing to DMV Incompetence to Help Voters Get IDs
“Wisconsin Is Systematically Failing to Provide the Photo IDs Required to Vote in November”
Ari Berman:
Nine percent of registered voters in Wisconsin don’t have a valid voter-ID and many are still struggling to get the documents they need to vote in November. It appears that Wisconsin is violating multiple court orders by not… Continue reading
Toobin on the Supreme Court After Scalia
Here, with quotes on Pam Karlan and Heather Gerken on Citizens United and voting rights.
“Texas Asks Supreme Court To Save Voter ID Law After Election”
AP:
Texas is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to restore its newly weakened voter ID law but not until after the November election.
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the request Friday, two months after a federal appeals court ruled… Continue reading