“Vote-Restriction Laws Line Up for Supreme Court Review”
Marcia Coyle reports for NLJ.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
Breaking: 4th Circuit, on 2-1 Vote, Partially Blocks NC Voting Changes: Analysis
The 4th Circuit on a 2-1 vote (on a panel made up of all Democratic appointees) has issued an opinion requiring North Carolina to restore same day voter registration and the counting of out of precinct ballots in the upcoming… Continue reading
CA Gov Brown Rejects Expansion of California Voting Rights Act to Require, Among Other Things, Increase in Number of Districts
Breaking: Supreme Court, 5-4, Blocks Extension of Early Voting in Ohio: Analysis
Via SCOTUSBlog comes this Supreme Court order staying the district court’s order preventing various cutbacks in early voting (including a cutback from 35 to 28 days, and elimination of one of the two early voting days on a Sunday,… Continue reading
“The Voting Wars Heat Up: Will the Supreme Court allow states to restrict voting for partisan advantage?”
I have written this new piece for Slate. It begins:
The fights in our states over how hard or easy it is to vote have been filling the courts and are headed toward the Supreme Court. The cases range from… Continue reading
“Mostly Black Cities, Mostly White City Halls”
Justice Ginsburg Reflects on Bush v. Gore, Citizens United and Shelby County
TNR interview of the Justice by Jeff Rosen:
JR: And you’ve discouraged separate concurrences.
RBG: Yes.
JR: Why is that?
RBG: The experience I don’t want to see repeated occurred in Bush v. Gore. The Court divided five to four.… Continue reading
“Ohio Early Voting in the Supreme Court”
Important Ned Foley analysis. Two snippets:
Plaintiffs complain that only one Sunday of early voting is available, and that the only evening hours available are on Election Day itself. As a matter of policy, I concur with their complaint. If… Continue reading
“Wisconsin will enact voter ID law denounced as ‘recipe for chaos'”
“Full Federal Appeals Court Won’t Consider Voter ID Case”
WI Voter ID Opponents Mulling Emergency Motion to #SCOTUS after 7th Circuit Divides 5-5
So reports the Journal Sentinel.
I explained earlier why I expect a petition to SCOTUS.
“Judge orders state to add language help for voters in Alaska villages”
Alaska Dispatch News reports.
More here and here.
You can read the district court’s interim remedial order at this link.
“Rethinking District of Columbia Venue in Voting Rights Preclearance Actions”
Michael Solimine has written this Essay for the Georgetown Law Journal. Here is the beginning:
In Shelby County v. Holder the Supreme Court held that the preclearance provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) was unconstitutional as presently constituted. … Continue reading
“Remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder at the Congressional Black Caucus Panel Discussion on Voting Rights”
A snippet:
As you’re discussing, through the unrelenting efforts of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division – under the leadership of Acting Assistant Attorney General Molly Moran, from whom you’ll be hearing this afternoon – my colleagues and I… Continue reading