“The Price Black Voters Paid to Defeat Roy Moore; Black voters endured waves of voter suppression to help elect Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate, and it didn’t have to be that way.”
Brentin Mock for CityLab.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Native Americans Again Seek to Protect their Right to Vote”
Release:
On December 13, 2017, the Native American Rights Fund again brought action against the state of North Dakota seeking to overturn North Dakota’s newest discriminatory voter ID law. NARF filed an amended complaint on behalf of Native American Plaintiffs… Continue reading
“How Columbus’s Majority-Black City Council Might be Violating the Voting Rights Act”
Brentin Mock for CityLab:
But how can this method be racially discriminatory in a city like Columbus where, despite having a black population that is roughly 30 percent, the city council is majority black? Everyday People for Positive Change argues… Continue reading
“Federal appeals judges question challenge to revised Texas voter ID law”
Texas Tribune:
In Texas’ bid to keep its voter identification law intact, it was its legal foes — lawyers representing voting and civil rights groups and individual voters of color — who faced a tougher line of questioning Tuesday before… Continue reading
“Texas back in court on ‘discriminatory’ voter ID law”; 5th Circuit Panel Draw is Higginbotham, Jones, and Graves
Oral argument before the 5th Circuit Tuesday in Veasey case on the intentional discrimination question.
With Judges Edith Jones and James Graves on the panel, there is likely to be a dissent, given how each voted in the last … Continue reading
Columbus, OH: “NAACP LDF Critiques City’s At-Large Electoral Process for Having Racially Discriminatory Results”
Columbus Underground:
At the urging of local ballot issue committee Everyday People for Positive Change (EDP), the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) issued a letter to the City of Columbus asserting that its at-large method of electing city council members… Continue reading
““Why Should I Go Vote Without Understanding What I Am Going to Vote For?” The Impact of First Generation Voting Barriers on Alaska Natives”
James Tucker, Natalie Landreth, and Erin Lynch have written this article for the Michigan Journal of Race and Law. Here is the abstract:
This article explores the many forms of discrimination that have persisted in Alaska, the resulting first generation… Continue reading
Quote of the Day
Counselor, there is no confusion. The confusion has been created by these trolls who are trying to change the conversation. I am not aware of any time in the history of the state where any individual has been denied the… Continue reading
LDF Files Response to Alabama’s Motion for Summary Judgment in Alabama Photo Voter ID Law Case
“A 2013 Supreme Court ruling forever changed Americans’ voting rights — and experts warn it could help decide this year’s elections”
BI:
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill didn’t mince words when addressing opponents of his state’s voter ID law, which requires voters show a government-approved photo ID at the polls.
“People are entitled to their own opinions. But they’re not… Continue reading
CA: “Conservative group sets sights on state’s Voting Rights Act”
Bob Egelko for the SF Chronicle:
A conservative who led a successful legal challenge to a core provision of the federal Voting Rights Act is training his sights on California’s version of the law, which allows minorities to challenge the… Continue reading
Timing is Everything Dep’t: 5th Circuit Denies Request for Initial En Banc Consideration of Texas Voter ID Case
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has denied a request by opponents of Texas’s strict voter id law to have the state’s appeal of the ruling holding the law illegal and enacted with racially discriminatory purpose… Continue reading
New Lawsuit by Ed Blum Attacks Constitutionality of California Voting Rights Act
Here is the complaint and here is the press release.
Blum is the force behind the Shelby County cases (killing a key part of the Voting Rights Act) and various attacks on affirmative action.
There was an earlier, unsuccessful… Continue reading
“Pasadena drops appeal, will remain under federal oversight of election laws”
Texas Tribune:
In a crucial victory for Hispanic voters in the Houston suburb of Pasadena, the city will remain under federal oversight for any changes to its voting laws until 2023 — the only setup of its kind in Texas.… Continue reading