Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

“The Voting Rights Act at a Crossroads”

August 4, 2015, 7:06 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this piece for the National Constitution Center’s Constitution Daily. It begins: Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in the United… Continue reading

“Voting Rights Still a Hot-Button Issue”

August 4, 2015, 7:03 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ken Walsh reports for US News.

“Sleepy county’s history of discrimination”

August 4, 2015, 7:01 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Natasha Korgaonkar oped for CNN on Waller County, TX.

“District voting ordered in Fayette; Special election required by death of county’s first black commissioner.”

August 4, 2015, 6:50 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

News from Ga.

“Does a voting-rights case threaten experimentation?”

August 3, 2015, 2:40 pmThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Michael McGough in the LA Times on the non-retrogression question lurking in the North Carolina voting rights case.

Hillary Clinton to Appear on Al Sharpton Radio Show on 50 Anniversary of VRA

August 3, 2015, 2:21 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT reports.

The Republicans’ 50th Anniversary Voting Rights Act Celebration

August 3, 2015, 10:39 amVoting Rights Act, VRAARick Hasen

The Hill: House Republican leaders are slamming the brakes on voting rights legislation, insisting that any movement on the issue go through a key Republican committee chairman who opposes the proposal. House Democrats are pressing hard on GOP leaders… Continue reading

“Voting Rights at 50”

August 3, 2015, 8:32 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

This new one by Sam Issacharoff (forthcoming, Alabama Law Review symposium on 50th anniversary of VRA) goes to the top of my reading list. Here is the abstract: The fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act comes at a difficult… Continue reading

“John Roberts has been trying to gut the Voting Rights Act for decades”

August 3, 2015, 7:46 amSupreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Scott Lemieux at The Week.

“The Voting Rights Act at 50 and the Section on Election Law at Birth: A Perspective”

August 3, 2015, 7:20 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Gene Mazo has posted this abstract (no draft) on SSRN (forthcoming ELJ): On the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the scholarly community has been fretting over the statute’s possible demise. Two years after Shelby County v.… Continue reading

“Voting against discrimination: The crucial step America took 50 years ago to affirm its democratic values is under unprecedented assault”

August 2, 2015, 8:30 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Theodore Shaw and Vishal Agraharkar write for the NYDN.

“50 years after the Voting Rights Act, election law expert assesses its impact and recent changes”

August 1, 2015, 11:21 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

KC Star: Black men had been granted the right to vote in 1870 in the 15th Amendment, which said people should be allowed to vote regardless of their race or previous condition of slavery. But soon after Reconstruction, which ended… Continue reading

“Historic federal trial on voting rights ends; judge to issue decision later this year”

July 31, 2015, 7:40 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Winston-Salem Journal: Thomas Farr, one of the state’s attorneys, said in closing arguments that the plaintiffs had not presented any evidence that the law is racially discriminatory. He said North Carolina legislators have the authority to enact changes to… Continue reading