Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“No, Republicans haven’t ‘always’ supported voting rights until now. This is the real story”
Jesse Rhodes for The Monkey Cage
Analysis: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear (Part of) Texas Redistricting Cases, But Not Partisan Gerrymandering; What Does It Mean, and What About North Carolina?
As expected, the Supreme Court today agreed to hear both the state and congressional Texas redistricting cases, consolidating them, postponing a decision on jurisdiction (more on that below), and likely (but not certainly) setting them up for argument in… Continue reading
Likely Coming Friday: A Supreme Court Order to Hear the Texas Redistricting Cases
Tomorrow is one of the last opportunities for the Supreme Court to set cases to be argued this term, which ends in late June. Last week during its private conference the Court considered whether or not to hear the state… Continue reading
Today’s Must-Read: “For Native Americans, a ‘Historic Moment’ on the Path to Power at the Ballot Box”
Julie Turkewitz in the NYT:
Fights over indigenous voting rights are playing out in the West and the Midwest, a trend that has the potential to tip tight races in states with large native populations, like Alaska and Arizona, and… Continue reading
“2018: A Big Year for Voting Rights Restoration?”
Goldfeder and Perez for the NYLJ.
“Sherrilyn Ifill: ‘Black Voters In Alabama Mattered'”
Rev. Barber on Tom Farr: “Trump’s Terrible Choice for Judge”
NYT oped:
mong President Trump’s worrisome nominees to the judiciary, perhaps none is as alarming as Thomas Alvin Farr, a protégé of Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina senator, and a product of the modern white supremacist machine that Mr.… Continue reading
Marc Alexander Reviews Ari Berman’s “Give Us the Ballot”
Here, in California Litigation.
“Black Turnout in Alabama Complicates Debate on Voting Laws”
Important NYT read:
But research, particularly of voter ID laws in Texas, Wisconsin and other states, provides an imprecise picture of how much similar laws suppress turnout. And Eitan Hersh, a Tufts University political scientist who contributed to the analysis… Continue reading
Trump DOJ Sides with Texas Again in Voter ID Case, Opposing Plaintiffs’ Motion to Lift Stay in Case
DOJ filing:
The United States opposes private plaintiffs-appellees’ motion to lift the stay pending appeal that the motions panel entered on September 5, 2017. The parties’ merits briefs and oral argument before this Court only reinforce the strong likelihood that… Continue reading
Supreme Court May Decide The First Week in January to Set Texas Redistricting Cases for Argument
Congressional docket.
State case.
Given that the Court has already issued a stay in each of these cases it is almost certain the Court will set them for argument, with a result likely this term.
This means we… Continue reading
5th Circuit in Texas Voter ID Case Asks Texas to Respond to Plaintiffs’ Stay Request by 12/28
Order via Raffi Melkonian.
Private Plaintiffs (But Not the U.S.) Ask 5th Circuit to Immediately Lift the Stay in the Texas Voter ID case
Back in September, a 5th Circuit’s motions panel, on a 2-1 vote, stayed a trial court order which would have blocked Texas from implementing its revised voter id law pending appeal.
The order specifically was not binding on the panel… Continue reading