Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

Voting Makes List of Top Performance Challenges at DOJ in 2013

December 20, 2013, 7:27 amDepartment of Justice, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

From the OIG: The non-ideological, non-partisan enforcement of law is fundamental to the public’s trust in the Department. Yet in a recent report assessing how the enforcement priorities of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division have changed… Continue reading

“Universalism and Civil Rights (with Notes on Voting Rights after Shelby)”

December 16, 2013, 8:01 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Sam Bagenstos has posted this important draft on SSRN (forthcoming Yale Law Journal). Here is the abstract: After the Supreme Court invalidated the core of the Voting Rights Act’s preclearance regime in Shelby County v. Holder, civil rights activists proposed… Continue reading

Audio Now Available of this Week’s Joint CA Legislative Hearing on the Federal Voting Rights Act

December 14, 2013, 1:07 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Here.

“North Carolina voting changes to go on trial in 2015”

December 12, 2013, 8:43 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Reuters reports.

Judicial Watch Brings Out Big Guns in North Carolina Voting Challenge

December 12, 2013, 12:49 pmDepartment of Justice, election administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Former DOJ voting section lawyers Robert Popper and Chris Coates are leading a team trying to intervene against DOJ in the North Carolina Voting Rights Act lawsuit.

My Testimony to the Joint California Legislative Committee on the Future of the Federal Voting Rights Act

December 11, 2013, 11:01 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

As noted, there’s a joint hearing Thursday morning at the California legislature on the federal Voting Rights Act. You can read my prepared testimony here. I address four issues related to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Shellby County decision:… Continue reading

“Challengers of new NC voting regulations want 2014 trial; state officials push for delay”

December 11, 2013, 8:23 amDepartment of Justice, election administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

News & Observer: Parties who are a gulf apart over what laws should be in place to ensure fair and open elections are just as widely divided about how quickly a lawsuit challenging new voter laws should be heard… Continue reading

Chapin on Issacharoff and Overton on Voting Rights Disclosure

December 11, 2013, 8:05 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Here.

Joint CA Assembly/Senate Committee Hearing on Federal Voting Rights Act Thursday

December 10, 2013, 7:53 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

The California Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments and the California Assembly Committee on Elections and Redistricting are having a joint informational hearing on the “Status of the Federal Voting Rights Act” on Thursday at 9:30 am in Sacramento.… Continue reading

“The Year in Preview: Post-Preclearance Voter Protection”

December 10, 2013, 9:58 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Abby Rapoport writes for TAP.

Jeffrey Toobin Sees Voting Rights as 1 of Top 7 Legal Stories in 2014

December 10, 2013, 8:52 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

See here. I am writing something a bit more expanded along similar lines.

Voting Rights Disclosure

December 9, 2013, 7:30 pmElections Clause, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActSpencer Overton

In my Harvard Law Review Forum piece Voting Rights Disclosure, I articulate my differences with NYU Professor Sam Issacharoff’s “non-civil rights” approach to voting rights (abstract below), and I propose detailed disclosure of voting changes for federal, state, and… Continue reading

“Fix to Voting Rights Act stalled in Congress”

December 9, 2013, 8:02 ampolitical parties, political polarization, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Dallas Morning News reports.

“State of Texas files final brief on effort to dismiss voter ID suits”

December 6, 2013, 4:55 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

TX Redistricting: “The State of Texas filed a reply brief today defending Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s position that the voter ID suits filed by the Justice Department and by African-American and Hispanic voters should be dismissed without need… Continue reading