“In Alabama, race again at heart of voting rights debate — but with twist”
Bob Barnes preview of the Alabama SCOTUS redistricting case.
My preview of the case for SCOTUSBlog is here.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Georgia, North Carolina midterms: Race matters”
“Devising a Standard for Section 3: Post-Shelby County Voting Rights Litigation”
Roseann Romano, adding to a growing list of important student notes on bail-in, for the Iowa Law Review:
In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which dismantled the modern voting rights enforcement regime by… Continue reading
ACS Briefing on Alabama Redistricting Cases
November 10 (two days before argument). Details and RSVP.
Read the Post-Trial Briefs in the Texas Redistricting Cases
Here.
SCOTUS Adds Argument Time in Alabama Redistricting Case for Federal Government
See this Order. As I explained in my SCOTUSBlog preview posted yesterday, Argument preview: Racial gerrymandering, partisan politics, and the future of the Voting Rights Act, the government filed a brief supporting neither side in this case:
Beneath… Continue reading
“Messing With Texas Again: Putting It Back Under Federal Supervision”
I have written this piece for TPM Cafe. It begins:
Readers of the entire 147-page opinion issued earlier this month by a federal district court striking down Texas’s strict voter identification law as unconstitutional and a violation of the Voting… Continue reading
“Ginsburg Was Right: Texas’ Extreme Voter ID Law Is Stopping People From Voting”
“Danger Zone: A Supreme Court Misstep On Voting Rights”
“Uncounted Votes The Racially Discriminatory Effects of Provisional Ballots”
New report from the Center for American Progress. From the emailed press release:
RELEASE: The Racially Discriminatory Effects of Provisional Ballots
Washington, D.C. — One week ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, much has been made of the new, more… Continue reading
“As Texas votes early, voter ID sparks frustration and motivation”
“Souls to the Polls” is Real
NYT’s “The Upshot:” The Big Role of Black Churches in Two Senate Races.
“Shelby and Section 3: Pulling the Voting Rights Act’s Pocket Trigger to Protect Voting Rights After Shelby County v. Holder”
Paul Wiley has written this very (and timely, given Texas) important student note for the Washington and Lee Law Review. From the Introduction:
One of those portions of the Voting Rights Act that remained untouched by Shelby County is §… Continue reading
“FairVote Joins Voting Rights Case in Washington to Promote Fair Representation”
FairVote wants to use “fair representation voting at-large”—which I think must be cumulative voting with a fancy name—to remedy a Voting Rights Act violation.
UPDATE: In this context, Fairvote is supporting Yakima’s efforts to use “limited voting.” FairVote uses the… Continue reading