Ari Berman on DOJ’s Texas Moves
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Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
A Few Quick Thoughts on DOJ’s Suit Against Texas on Voter ID and Moves on Redistricting
As I explained in this National Law Journal piece from a few weeks ago, AG Holder is trying whatever he can to make up for the loss of the preclearance provisions of Section 5.
But thanks to the Supreme Court’s… Continue reading
Breaking: DOJ Sues Texas Over Voter ID using Section 2 of Voting Rights Act
Press release:
Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Justice Department to File New Lawsuit Against State of Texas Over Voter I.D. Law
The Department of Justice announced today that it will… Continue reading
“Voter ID Debate Heats Up as Dallas County Joins Fight”
Texas Tribune: “A fight against the state’s contentious voter ID laws escalated this week when Dallas County became the first Texas county to claim that the requirements would disenfranchise thousands of eligible voters.”
What Did VRA Preclearance Actually Do?: The Gap Between Perception and Reality Part II
By Rick Pildes & Dan Tokaji
The primary goal in our earlier post was to bring greater policy and legal realism to discussions of Section 5 — both in terms of (1) historical perspective on what Section 5 actually did… Continue reading
“Against a ‘Post-Racial’ Voting Rights Act”
Spencer Overton writes at TAP.
WSJ’s Taranto Attacks My Slate Piece on North Carolina
Here (on my Slate piece).
I’ll let others judge for themselves the soundness of his criticism. I’ll just point out then when he says “The Texas redistricting case hasn’t been decided yet…” he’s confused about my reference. It was… Continue reading
“Voting Rights Act of 1965 left a complicated legacy”
VRA Preclearance (A Response to Pildes/Tokaji, pt. 2)
(At Rick Hasen’s request, I’ve posted (with permission) two listserv responses to this post by Rick Pildes and Dan Tokaji. The first was from Mike Pitts. For this one, you can blame me. The version below is modified a… Continue reading
VRA Preclearance (A Response to Pildes/Tokaji, pt. 1)
(Re-posted on behalf of Mike Pitts, from a listserv email, with permission, in response to this post):
I have great respect for Dan Tokaji and Rick Pildes. They are smart folks and excellent scholars. And they may well… Continue reading
“Get to Know Section 3 of the Voting Rights Act”
Abby Rapoport writes for TAP.
What Did VRA Preclearance Actually Do?: The Gap Between Perception and Reality
By Rick Pildes & Dan Tokaji
A widespread perception exists that, in the years before the Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder, the Section 5 preclearance regime was a powerful tool in protecting access to the ballot box for… Continue reading
“True the Vote Release 173 Cases of Alleged Interstate Voter Fraud in Florida, Maryland”
See this press release.
I don’t know anything about the accuracy of True the Vote’s charges here. But I do know that double voting across states is a real, though relatively small, problem.
Efforts to get states to cross… Continue reading