“Supreme Court could rule on Wisconsin voter ID law”
Zack Roth reports for MSNBC.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Rep. Lewis: ‘People Want To Gut The Voting Rights Act,’ ‘Take Us Back To Another Period’”
“Obama Administration Intervenes In Native American Voting Rights Lawsuit”
“Challenge to Wisconsin Voter ID Law Heads to Supreme Court”
Tony Mauro reports for BLT.
“What ‘Selma’ Gets Right—and Wrong—About Civil Rights History”
“Racial Voting and Geography in the United States”
Very interesting new draft from Brian Amos and Michael McDonald up on SSRN:
Voters express varied levels of support for the parties’ candidates depending on where they live, be it in the South (Aldrich 1995; Carmines and Stimson 1989) or… Continue reading
“Voting Rights: One Way the GOP Might Reverse What Scalise Scandal Made Worse”
Hawkings Here (Roll Call):
Whether Scalise can totally shed the taint from the incident won’t be known for several months. That will be determined in large part by potential congressional candidates and big-money donors, when they start either accepting or… Continue reading
“Erwin Chemerinsky: The importance of the Voting Rights Act”
“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… Continue reading
“Who disagrees with ‘Selma’s’ portrayal of LBJ? Blacks in the civil rights era.”
“The State as Witness: Windsor, Shelby County, and Judicial Distrust of the Legislative Record”
Bertrall Ross has posted this draft on SSRN (NYU Law Review). Here is the abstract:
More than ever, the constitutionality of laws turns on judicial review of an underlying factual record, assembled by lawmakers. Some scholars have suggested that by… Continue reading
“Race and Voting Rights in Ferguson”
“What Matters in Selma; Critics say Ava DuVernay’s film isn’t fair to LBJ. That’s because it’s about a movement, not leaders.”
Jamelle Bouie writes for Slate.
“City emerges as new battleground on voting rights”
AP reports on Pasadena Texas:
Pasadena is preparing to change the makeup of its city council in a way that city fathers hope fosters new development, but that some Hispanics allege dilutes their influence. The case could become a test… Continue reading