“The Bizarre Opposition to New Hampshire’s Voting Rights Act Bailout Suit”
Sam Bagenstos blogs.
Regular readers of the blog will know this is my take as well.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
Center for Individual Rights Seeks to Intervene to Block NH Bailout Request
This is no surprise.
See the motion to intervene and motion to dismiss New Hampshire’s request to bail out from coverage under the preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act.
Must-Read Joan Biskupic Profile of Ed Blum, Behind the Shelby County Voting Rights Challenge and Texas Affirmative Action Case
“Is the Voting Rights Act Outdated?”
NPR’s Tell Me More reports.
von Spakovsky Attacks New Hampshire Voting Rights Bailout; Adams Responds on Merced Bailout
“Response by Merced County’s Section 5 Lawyers to J. Christian Adams’s Article”
The following is a guest post from Chris Skinnell and Marguerite Leoni:
We write in response to Mr. J. Christian Adams’s article, “Eric Holder Cons the Courts to Save Voting Rights Act,” to which you linked earlier in… Continue reading
Section 5 Opponents to Argue that DOJ Breaking Bailout Rules in Order to Save the Constitutionality of Voting Rights Act section 5
I expect this argument to get a lot of play.
The great irony here, for those who don’t follow this issue closely, is that you have people who oppose section 5 of the VRA complaining that DOJ is making… Continue reading
“Defending The Voting Rights Act From Its Conservative Critics”
Doug Kendall: “In a condescending but shallow response to a Huffington Post piece written last week by my colleague Emily Phelps and me, Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto accuses us of appealing to ’emotion’ and wallowing in ‘nostalgia for… Continue reading
“Beyond Black and White in the Mississippi Delta”
Fascinating NYT opinion piece by Gene Dattel, with implications for the Voting Rights Act challenge before the Supreme Court.
“Is the Voting Rights Act Outdated?”
“Civil Rights Reactionaries”
James Taranto (WSJ): “A left-liberal outfit called the Constitutional Accountability Center wants the U.S. Supreme Court to sustain a section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, but its argument is based on little more than an appeal to emotion–specifically,… Continue reading
“Texas Voter ID Suit May Await Related High Court Ruling”
Bloomberg: “The U.S. Justice Department agreed to defer further proceedings in a lawsuit filed by Texas over the state’s voter identification law until the Supreme Court rules whether part of the Voting Rights Act is constitutional.”
“The Causal Context of Disparate Vote Denial”
Janai Nelson has posted this draft on SSRN (forhcoming, Boston College Law Review). Here is the abstract:
For nearly 50 years, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its amendments have remedied racial discrimination in the electoral process with unparalleled… Continue reading
“The Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court, and the Life of Lawrence Guyot”
This item appears at Text & History.