Read Wisconsin’s Emergency Supreme Court Petition Seeking to Overturn Redistricting Maps Approved by State Supreme Court
The claim in this petition relates to the Voting Rights Act and racial gerrymandering claims.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Wisconsin Republicans to appeal redistricting case to U.S. Supreme Court”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
A day after losing before Wisconsin’s high court, Republicans detailed plans Friday to take their redistricting fight to the U.S. Supreme Court. Republicans asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday to block the ruling it issued … Continue reading
Updated Katz Study: Substantial Decline in the Number of Cases Brought Under Section 2 of The Voting Rights Act and Plaintiffs’ Success in Winning Them
The study by Ellen Katz and her students at the University of Michigan on Section 2 cases played an important role in the majority and dissenting opinions in the Supreme Court’s Shelby County v. Holder case on the power of… Continue reading
Federal District Court Finds Georgia’s Redistricting Plans Likely Violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by Diluting Minority Voting Power, But Won’t Order Any Remedy for 2022 Election Under the Purcell Principle
You can find the court’s 238 page ruling at this link.
This case is more proof that the Purcell Principle is becoming a license to do one cycle of illegal voting maps before the courts will offer any meaningful… Continue reading
“U.S. judges are narrowing voting protections. Some fear lasting damage”
Carrie Johnson for NPR:
The nation’s premier tool to protect voting rights is in mortal danger, threatened on multiple fronts by the Supreme Court and lower-ranking federal judges, scholars and civil rights advocates say.The latest blow to the landmark… Continue reading
“Texas’s Primaries are Happening on a Legally Disputed Congressional Map”
WaPo interactive on growing Latino voting power.
ELB Podcast Episode 3:6: Deuel Ross: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Alabama Voting Rights Redistricting Case But Were Too Confused to Ask
New ELB Podcast:
ELB Podcast Episode 3:6: Deuel Ross: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Alabama Voting Rights Redistricting Case But Were Too Confused to AskWhy did the Supreme Court put on hold a federal district court order… Continue reading
Supreme Court Consolidates Two Alabama Redistricting Voting Rights Cases, Squarely Sets Up Meaning of Section 2 of VRA in Question Presented
From today’s order list:
21-1086 ) MERRILL, AL SEC. OF STATE, ET AL. V. MILLIGAN, EVAN, ET AL.) 21-1087 ) MERRILL, AL SEC. OF STATE, ET AL. V. CASTER, MARCUS, ET AL.These cases are consolidated, and a total of… Continue reading
Watch Video of My Appearance on CBS News Talking About the Supreme Court’s Order in the Alabama Redistricting Case
You can watch here.
A Catalog of Bonkers Voting Rights Act Claim That Could Gain Traction in the Next Few Years
Seems worth starting a list:
A catalog of bonkers Voting Rights Act theories that could get traction:1. No private right of action2. Doesn't apply to redistricting.3. VRA must be applied in a race neutral way.4. VRA is racist and violates… Continue reading
“We the People” Podcast from National Constitution Center: “Redistricting in Alabama and the Voting Rights Act”
I participated in this podcast interview with NCC’s Jeffrey Rosen and Matthew Clark:
Last week, the Supreme Court issued an order in a case about voting district maps in Alabama. After the 2020 census, Alabama drew new maps for 7… Continue reading
“Defenders of #SCOTUS’s shadow docket behavior (including Justice Alito), insist that the Court’s orders aren’t precedential. But here’s the judge hearing VRA challenges to *Georgia’s* redistricting suggesting that he’s “bound” to follow the unexplained stays in the Alabama cases”
Vladeck of course.
Defenders of #SCOTUS's shadow docket behavior (including Justice Alito), insist that the Court's orders aren't precedential. But here's the judge hearing VRA challenges to *Georgia's* redistricting suggesting that he's "bound" to follow the unexplained stays… Continue reading
Must-Read Adam Serwer: “The Supreme Court Seems to Think Discrimination Is When You Try to Remedy Discrimination”
Adam Serwer for the Atlantic:
I have a hard time believing that anyone sincerely thinks that drawing districts that limit the political influence of Black voters in a state where Black people comprise more than a quarter of the… Continue reading
“Opinion: More evidence the Supreme Court is hostile to the Voting Rights Act”
Jennifer Rubin WaPo column:
It is hard to come to any other conclusion with this Supreme Court, after it destroyed Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and crafted an entirely new set of rules for the VRA’s Section… Continue reading