Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

City of Pasadena Texas, Under Federal Voting Rights Preclearance for Intentional Racial Discrimination, Poised to Drop Appeal UPDATED AND CORRECTED

September 29, 2017, 2:23 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

UPDATE to the post below: The information I had was incomplete. This settlement still must be approved twice by the Pasadena City Council, which likely will not happen until some time in November. City will also pay $1 million… Continue reading

“Litigating the Line Between Past and Present; The Supreme Court is about to take up another blockbuster voting rights case. At its core is a struggle over the limits of history.”

September 29, 2017, 12:39 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Sara Mayeux for Bunk History: How past is the past? That quandary, among the definitional puzzles of the human condition, is also the crux of the voting rights battles currently rending statehouses and federal courts around the country. Election law… Continue reading

The Connection Between Voting Rights and Sports Betting?

September 29, 2017, 7:21 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ryan Rodenberg and John Holden have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We find PASPA’s partial and non-uniform ban on state-sponsored sports wagering to run afoul of the equal sovereignty doctrine’s general constraints as set forth in… Continue reading

The Sewanee Symposium: Enfranchising Equality: 150 years of the 15th Amendment

September 19, 2017, 3:34 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Very much looking forward to participating in this symposium, at the University of the South, Oct. 12-13. Historian Eric Foner is giving the keynote and I am excited! I’ll be presenting Race or Party, Race as Party, or Party All… Continue reading

Trump DOJ, Again Siding with Texas in Voter ID Case, Opposes Having Entire 5th Circuit Hear Appeal Initially

September 19, 2017, 7:28 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Full throated defense of Texas’s current position in this litigation, a 180 from where DOJ was during the Obama administration.

“Senate Democrats to Hold Hearing on Ways to Protect and Strengthen the Right to Vote”

September 18, 2017, 8:08 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Advisory via email: On Tuesday, September 19th at 3:00 PM, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chairwoman of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, along with U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration,… Continue reading

I Talked SCOTUS, Gerrymandering, Voting Rights, and Pence-Kobach with Dahlia Lithwick on Slate’s Amicus

September 16, 2017, 12:13 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Great to join Dahlia on the first new podcast of the term. Listen.

“Native American Voting Rights Coalition Documents Voter Suppression”

September 14, 2017, 10:46 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

See here.

Supreme Court, on 5-4 Party Line Vote, Blocks Texas Redistricting Remedy for Now. What’s Next?

September 12, 2017, 5:56 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

In two orders, with all of the conservative Republican-appointed Justices voting in favor and all the liberal Democratic-appointed Justices opposed, the Supreme Court put on hold a lower court order for Texas to redraw congressional and state house district… Continue reading

“Ballot Blocked: The Political Erosion of the Voting Rights Act”

September 12, 2017, 7:40 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

New book from Jesse Rhodes: Voting rights are a perennial topic in American politics. Recent elections and the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which struck down key enforcement provisions in the Voting Rights Act (VRA), have only… Continue reading

5th Circuit En Banc Won’t Consider Reinstating Block of Texas Voter ID Law, For Now

September 11, 2017, 12:08 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Last week I reported that a 5th Circuit motions panel, on a 2-1 vote, allowed Texas to enforce its revised voter id law pending appeal in the case. The court put this stay in place this even though the trial… Continue reading

Breaking: Challengers in Texas Voter ID Case Seek 5th Circuit En Banc Review of Stay Order and Full Review of Case

September 8, 2017, 1:24 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The other day I reported that a 5th Circuit motions panel, on a 2-1 vote, allowed Texas to enforce its revised voter id law pending appeal in the case. The court did this even though the trial court found Texas… Continue reading

“Ventura faces threat of voting rights suit”

September 7, 2017, 12:30 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

VC Star: In some parts of Ventura, Latinos make up eight in 10 residents. Yet there is no Latino elected official and you’d be hard pressed to find the last one who served on the City Council. That population concentration… Continue reading

5th Circuit Motions Panel, on 2-1 Vote, Allows Texas to Enforce Its Revised ID Law Pending Appeal

September 5, 2017, 5:48 pmThe Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Via Josh Gerstein comes news of this order in the long-running Texas voter ID litigation. Judges Jerry Smith and Jennifer Elrod held that Texas is likely to succeed on the merits because its new voter id legislation (SB 5) is… Continue reading

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