“As court scoldings pile up, will Texas face a voting rights reckoning?”
Texas Tribune considers whether the redistricting and voter id cases will lead to federal courts putting Texas’s voting rules back under federal supervision.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
Supreme Court Could Agree to Hear WI Partisan Gerrymandering, Voting Rights Cases as Early as Monday
John Elwood for SCOTUSBlog’s “Relist Watch:”
his week we have five new relists, taxing even my prodigious ability to string transitions between questions presented. For people who have been watching the recent North Carolina election cases like Harris v. Cooper… Continue reading
“Guest column: We still need majority-minority judicial sub-districts”
Pascal Frank Calogero Jr. writes for The Advocate (La.).
“Will Supreme Court Cut More of Voting Rights Act?”
Kimberly Robinson for Bloomberg BNA:
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2013 decision in Shelby Cty. v. Holder, Democrats have increasingly turned to another part of the Voting Rights Act, Section 2, to challenge what they see as restrictive… Continue reading
“Appeals court to weigh Texas voting law limiting language interpreters”
Texas Tribune:
Amid last-minute efforts to overhaul the state’s voter identification law in light of an ongoing legal fight, the Texas Legislature gaveled out without addressing another embattled election law that’s now moving forward in federal court.
The U.S. 5th… Continue reading
“Scrap new Texas voter ID law, plaintiffs tell federal judge”
Texas Tribune:
A new law softening Texas’ strict voter identification requirements doesn’t absolve the lawmakers from intentionally discriminating against minority voters in 2011 — nor would it properly accommodate those voters going forward, the state’s opponents in a long-running lawsuit… Continue reading
“Court eyes next step in Texas voter ID challenge”
Austin American-Statesman:
U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos, who has already ruled that the Republican-backed voter ID law was enacted in 2011 with the intent to discriminate against minority voters, will confer with lawyers on how best to determine whether… Continue reading
Revised Version of My Race or Party Paper Now Posted
I have now posted a revised version of “Essay: Race or Party, Race as Party, or Party All the Time: Three Uneasy Approaches to Conjoined Polarization in Redistricting and Voting Cases” (forthcoming William and Mary Law Review symposium… Continue reading
What are all these NC redistricting cases?
There are a bunch of North Carolina redistricting cases stacked up at the moment. A few of these are in front of the Supreme Court, and could move as early as Tuesday. Since we just had a North Carolina redistricting… Continue reading
Anita Earls: “Bringing sanity to racial-gerrymandering jurisprudence”
Important Anita Earls in the SCOTUSBlog symposium on Cooper v. Harris:
Although not breaking new ground, the court’s post-2010 census round of racial gerrymandering cases make clear that while not every district drawn as a majority-black or majority-Latino district is… Continue reading
“The Supreme Court may just have given voting rights activists a powerful new tool”
I have written this oped for the Washington Post. It begins:
Sometimes the most important stuff in Supreme Court opinions is hidden in the footnotes. In Monday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down two North Carolina congressional districts as unconstitutionally influenced… Continue reading
NC redistricting, from someone not named Rick
Rick Hasen and Rick Pildes have already weighed in on the NC redistricting case this morning.
I agree with much of the Ricks’ analysis, and their assessment that this was utimately a win for voting rights plaintiffs. But I have… Continue reading
Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court on 5-3 Vote Affirms NC Racial Gerrymandering Case, with Thomas in Majority and Roberts in Dissent
The Supreme Court has issued this 5-3 opinion in Cooper v. Harris. Justice Kagan wrote the opinion for the Court, with Justice Thomas making the fifth vote for affirmance. Chief Justice Robert and Justices Alito and Kennedy dissented. That is… Continue reading
“Effort to overhaul Texas voter ID rules survives — for now”
Jim Malewitz for the Texas Tribune:
A flurry of legislative activity Sunday night gave life to efforts to overhaul Texas’ voter identification rules — legislation Republicans call crucial to the state’s arguments in a high-profile legal battle over whether the… Continue reading