Toobin on Vote Suppression
In the New Yorker, arguing that the recount is a distraction from “the real voting-rights scandal of 2016.”
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“In latest voter ID filing, feds argue Texas discriminated on purpose”
Texas Tribune:
Months after a federal appeals court ruled that Texas lawmakers discriminated against African-American and Latino voters in passing a strict voter identification law, the Obama administration and civil rights groups are asking a judge to go a step… Continue reading
“Voting Rights in the Age of Trump”
Ari Berman NYT oped:
Mr. Trump’s Justice Department will also present a severe threat to voting rights. It could choose not to vigorously enforce the Voting Rights Act, instead pressing states to take more aggressive action to combat alleged… Continue reading
“North Carolina Republicans Battle to Save Governor, Trailing by Whisker”
NYT:
Democrats and Republicans in this fiercely contested political battleground have regularly resorted to creative legal maneuvers and election-law changes in their efforts to wring every last vote from the state’s nearly seven million voters. But even by that standard,… Continue reading
My One Personal Interaction with Sen. Sessions Does Not Give Me Confidence About Strong Voting Rights Enforcement with Him as AG
Others have written about Senator Jeff Sessions, President-Elect Trump’s expected nominee for Attorney General, and questions of race and voting rights. I can add only one thing from personal experience. In 2006, I testified (that day, along with Professors… Continue reading
“Both in court and under Trump, Texas Voter ID law faces uncertain future”
“Donald Trump’s shocking upset emboldens Texas GOP” Including on Voter ID
Texas Tribune:
One example? Voter ID. Texas lawmakers are under a court order to fix the state’s tough voter ID law when they meet again in January in Austin. The likelihood that the fix is “not going to be overturned… Continue reading
“Shifting Stance of Trump’s DOJ May Impact Voting Rights Litigation”
Bert Rein, Lawyer for Shelby County, Says Maybe #SCOTUS Decision Good Because It Deterred “Some Illegals” from Voting
Wow:
Both Kang and Hasen said whether the Shelby decision tipped the election is less important than whether it unnecessarily disenfranchised any number of voters, even if it was less than a substantial amount.
We put the same question to… Continue reading
Linda Greenhouse, Changing Tone, Urges CJ Roberts to Rise Above Politics in North Carolina Voting Case
Linda sees what I see, which is the prospect of an even more conservative Court for the next generation. And now rather than criticizing CJ Roberts’ positions on race and voting, she has a different argument:
He needs to… Continue reading
“White Won. We are still the country that produced George Wallace. We are still the country that killed Emmett Till.”
Jamelle Bouie:
Americans are stubbornly, congenitally optimistic. And the millions who backed Trump see something in his visage. Something that gives them hope. Here’s what I see. I see a man who empowered white nationalists and won. I see a… Continue reading
Racial Disparities in Long Lines at Polling Places Too
Emily Badger for NYT’s The UpShot:
Early voters, urban voters and minority voters are all more likely to wait and wait and wait. In predominantly minority communities, the lines are about twice as long as in predominantly white ones, Mr.… Continue reading
“The Supreme Court and Voter Suppression”
Andrew Cohen:
I wonder what goes through the mind of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts these frantic days as he reads one account after another of voter suppression in the 2016 election. Does he regret his decisive… Continue reading
Breaking: 9th Circuit Grants En Banc in AZ Case Involving Counting Out-of-Precinct Ballots
Order.
(Confusingly, there are now two en bancs named Feldman stemming from the same AZ case: this one on out of precinct ballots and the other on “ballot harvesting”).
From my coverage yesterday:
Same panel as in the… Continue reading