“North Carolina Won’t Stop Suppressing the Vote”
Ari Berman for The Nation.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“North Carolina asks the Justices to step in on voter ID law”
Amy Howe for SCOTUSBlog.
“The Stunning Chutzpah Of North Carolina’s Voter Suppression Attorneys”
Ian Millhiser tears apart Paul Clement’s brief.
“Mecklenburg elections board cuts hours for early voting”
Why is North Carolina afraid of black people voting?
Despite pleas not to curtail early voting, Mecklenburg County elections officials voted Monday to cut the overall number of hours from the 2012 election by 238, even while opening as many… Continue reading
“North Carolina Took 17 Days to Ask Supreme Court to Rescue Its Voter ID Law”
Cristian Farias for HuffPo.
Breaking: North Carolina Files Emergency #SCOTUS Stay Request in Voting Case
A full 17 days after the 4th Circuit held that challenged provisions of North Carolina’s voting law had to be blocked because they were passed with a racially discriminatory purpose, the state of North Carolina has filed this petition asking… Continue reading
“U.S. judge blocks Texas law on election interpreters”
Austin American-Statesman:
A federal judge Friday blocked Texas from enforcing a state law that limits the availability of interpreters in polling places, ruling that it violates protections guaranteed by the U.S. Voting Rights Act.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge… Continue reading
“How the Voting Rights Act Could Be a Path to Police Reform”
Brentin Mock:
For the Leadership Conference, which represents more than 200 organizations dedicated to protecting the rights of people of color, that means Congress needs to pass long-idling bills including the End Racial Profiling Act, the Law Enforcement Trust … Continue reading
Breaking: WI Files Emergency Stay in Second Voting Case
Although WI tried to spin yesterday’s loss as a win, now they’ve gone to the 7th Circuit with this emergency motion. The state wants 7 election rollbacks the trial court found illegal to be reinstated before the election, and… Continue reading
District Court in Other WI Case Mostly Denies WI Request for Stay of Ruling
Order does loosen up timeframe for softening of WI’s voter ID law through new DMV procedures:
IT IS ORDERED that defendants’ motion to stay the court’s permanent injunction pending appeal, Dkt. 241, is DENIED in substantial part. As explained above,… Continue reading
Breaking: WI Voter ID Plaintiffs File Emergency 7th Circuit En Banc Petition for ID Softening
Via Josh Gerstein comes this petition, filed very quickly by the Voting Rights plaintiffs in the Wisconsin voter id case. It asks the full 7th Circuit to reverse the stay of the affidavit softening order by the trial court… Continue reading
Breaking: 3-Judge Court Unanimously Rules NC State Districts Unconstitutional Racial Gerrymander
A unanimous 3-judge court (including the district court judge who recently upheld North Carolina’s strict voting law) has held in a 167-page opinion that challenged North Carolina legislative districts are unconstitutional racial gerrymanders and need to be redrawn.
This ruling… Continue reading
Where Do We Stand on the Voting Wars in NC, TX, WI and Elsewhere?
I try to bring it together at WaPo’s The Monkey Cage:
After a notable string of voting rights decisions in the past few weeks — throwing out or weakening voter identification and other restrictive voting laws in Texas, North… Continue reading
“Quick and Dirty: The New Misreading of the Voting Rights Act”
The final version of Justin Levitt’s must read piece on the relationship between the VRA’s districting requirements and racial gerrymandering claims is now out from the FSU Law Review and available at SSRN. It is just in time as the… Continue reading