Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

UCLA Voting Rights Project Publishes Model Code for State Voting Rights Act

March 31, 2021, 1:25 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Release: The UCLA Voting Rights Project has just released to the public its Model State-level Voting Rights Act for voting rights advocates, state legislators, and others involved in the law-making process to utilize in advocating for and drafting pro-voting rights… Continue reading

“Court fight against Georgia voting overhaul no sure thing”

March 28, 2021, 4:12 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Mark Sherman for AP: Richard Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California at Irvine law school, said the outcome is hard to predict. “Many of the things that the bill does are in line with what other… Continue reading

“How the Supreme Court laid the path for Georgia’s new election law”

March 28, 2021, 4:07 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Joan Biskupic for CNN: Georgia’s voter restrictions were dashed into law Thursday by Republicans shaken over recent election losses and lies about fraud from former President Donald Trump, yet the measures also developed against a backdrop of US Supreme Court… Continue reading

“Why the Georgia G.O.P.’s Voting Rollbacks Will Hit Black People Hard”

March 26, 2021, 9:16 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT: Should the high court make changes to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which allows after-the-fact challenges to voting restrictions that may disproportionately affect members of minority groups, Democrats and voting rights groups could be left without one… Continue reading

“The Coming Redistricting Cycle Will Test Just What Biden’s DOJ Can Do With A Gutted VRA”

March 19, 2021, 7:07 amDepartment of Justice, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Tierney Sneed for TPM.

“The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act case could gut civil rights protections. Then what?”

March 15, 2021, 7:22 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Isaac Cui at The Monkey Cage.

“In Georgia, Republicans Take Aim at Role of Black Churches in Elections”

March 7, 2021, 4:06 pmThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT article, with the subhead: “New proposals by the G.O.P.-controlled Legislature have targeted Sunday voting, part of a raft of measures that could reduce the impact of Black voters in the state.”

“The Supreme Court Might Kill Voting Rights—Quietly”

March 7, 2021, 3:26 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

David Gans for The Atlantic

“Supreme Court Case Could Limit Options to Fight Republican Voting Restrictions”

March 3, 2021, 11:07 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT reports.

Thoughts on Brnovich Oral Argument: Few Surprises, and Voting Rights Plaintiffs Are Likely to Lose (But Exactly How Remains Unclear)

March 2, 2021, 9:16 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I just finished listening to the two-hour argument in the Brnovich voting rights case. For background on what’s at stake and where I think things are, see this SCOTUSBlog post. Oral argument went as I expected. There was little… Continue reading

“High Noon For The Future Of The Voting Rights Act At The Supreme Court”

March 2, 2021, 6:06 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Nina Totenberg for NPR: The potential to render the Voting Rights Act nearly a dead letterIn fact, 33 states have “introduced, refiled, or carried over more than 165 restrictive laws this year,” says Myrna Pérez, director of the Voting Rights… Continue reading

Travis Crum: “Rethinking the Race or Party Question in Brnovich”

March 1, 2021, 3:11 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Here is a guest post from Travis Crum of Wash U: The Supreme Court will soon hear oral argument in Brnovich v. DNC, a major voting rights case. As relevant here, the case concerns an Arizona ballot-collection law that… Continue reading

“Supreme Court to again consider federal protections for minority voters”

February 28, 2021, 7:54 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Robert Barnes WaPo preview of the Brnovich argument.

“A partisan battle in an overreach of a case”: Minority voters are caught between the political parties at the Supreme Court, with the Voting Rights Act hanging in the balance (My SCOTUSBlog Preview of Brnovich)

February 22, 2021, 8:02 ampolitical parties, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this analysis for SCOTUSBlog. It begins: Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee is a strange voting rights case. Rather than the typical case, in which a voting rights group representing minority voters sues a state or locality for… Continue reading