Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

“State wants federal judge to rule on Voter ID before March primaries”

October 8, 2015, 6:46 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Winston-Salem Journal: State attorneys want a federal judge to dismiss the legal challenge to North Carolina’s voter-identification law before the March 2016 presidential primary, according to court documents filed Wednesday. And though the plaintiffs, including the North Carolina chapter of… Continue reading

“Hoyer: Alabama DMV Closures Prove That Voting Rights Act Must Be Restored”

October 7, 2015, 10:05 amThe Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights Act, VRAARick Hasen

TPM reports.

Christopher Coates Heavily Criticizes Ari Berman Voting Rights Book

October 6, 2015, 9:37 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Former DOJ voting section chief, who has now become associated with conservative legal attacks on the DOJ’s voting rights position, minces no words.

“Launch of Voting Rights Institute: Remarks of J. Gerald Hebert on October 2, 2015”

October 6, 2015, 9:34 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Gerry: The VRI will have 3 main focuses, and Dean Treanor and Caroline Fredrickson have highlighted two of them: a VRI at Georgetown Law will provide opportunities for students, recent graduates, and fellows to engage in litigation and policy… Continue reading

“Supreme Court Inadvertently Announces Argument Date in Voting Case”

October 5, 2015, 9:30 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Tony Mauro: The closely watched “one person one vote” election law case Evenwel v. Abbott is set to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 30, according to an apparently inadvertent post on the court’s website.

Former US AG Michael Mukasey Criticizes DOJ Voting Section

October 5, 2015, 8:54 amDepartment of Justice, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Imprimis: The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is the one we think of as having the main responsibility for protecting fairness. Yet its recent record has indicated other priorities. Recently its Voting Section went out of its way to review a… Continue reading

“It’s Still a Struggle; The fight for voting rights hasn’t been the straightforward battle we once might have expected to win and be done with.”

October 5, 2015, 8:36 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Sam Issacharoff has an important new review of Ari Berman’s Give Us the Ballot in the latest issue of The American Prospect. Unfortunately it is not posted freely online. It concludes: Using the instrumentalities of power to keep enemies… Continue reading

NAACP LDF Expresses Voting Rights Act Concerns in Alabama Voter ID DMV Closure Case

October 5, 2015, 8:28 amThe Voting Wars, voter id, voting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Letter: The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”)1, on behalf of Greater Birmingham Ministries and the Alabama State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, writes to raise our grave concerns regarding… Continue reading

“Alabama, Birthplace of the Voting Rights Act, Is Once Again Gutting Voting Rights”

October 2, 2015, 9:24 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ari Berman writes for The Nation.

The Roberts Court at 10: Election Law

September 29, 2015, 7:47 amcampaign finance, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

With today’s 10 year anniversary of John Roberts’ joining the Supreme Court as Chief Justice of the United States. here’s another link to my paper in progress, Election Law’s Path in the Roberts Court’s First Decade: A Sharp Right Turn … Continue reading

“Why The Most Urgent Civil Rights Cause Of Our Time Is The Supreme Court Itself”

September 28, 2015, 7:39 amcampaign finance, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this longread for TPM, and I’ve been working on it for quite some time. It begins: The future composition of the Supreme Court is the most important civil rights cause of our time. It is more important… Continue reading

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the Voting Wars, Voting Rights, and Voting Reform

September 27, 2015, 7:12 pmThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

From a speech today at the Edward Kennedy Institute: And what about voting rights? Two years ago, five conservative justices on the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, opening the floodgates ever wider for measures designed to suppress… Continue reading

“Republican Lawmaker Says Inmates are Key to Defeating Corrine Brown”

September 24, 2015, 8:33 pmredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Politico Florida: In a private gathering during last month’s Republican Party of Florida quarterly meeting, state Rep. Janet Adkins told a group of North Florida GOP activists that the key to defeating Corrine Brown, a black Jacksonville Democrat, is… Continue reading