Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

Question of the Day: Where is South Carolina’s Lawsuit Against DOJ?

January 30, 2012, 8:59 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

In late December, I wrote this Slate commentary in which I suggested that South Carolina might leapfrog over some of the other suits challenging the constitutionality of section 5 and get right to the Supreme Court. The urgency would be… Continue reading

Access All the Witness Statements from the Recent Senate Judiciary Hearing on Voting in Fla.

January 30, 2012, 8:01 amelection administration, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Here.

“One-man Washington nonprofit helps steer Shelby County voting case”

January 30, 2012, 7:59 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Birmingham News profiles Ed Blum, whose Project on Fair Representation has taken the lead in judicial challenges to section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

More from Texas Redistricting Blog

January 29, 2012, 3:37 pmDepartment of Justice, redistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

See DOJ on the Meaning of the SCOTUS Opinion and a Press Roundup.

“Texas voter ID case: Meet the three-judge panel”

January 28, 2012, 3:34 pmvoter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Not a great draw for the Lone Star State.

Texas Redistricting Deal to Help Congressional Dems?

January 27, 2012, 4:31 pmredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Hill reports. It is hard to see Texas Republicans going along with this, but we will see. Michael Li live-tweeted today’s very long hearing before the three-Judge court in San Antonio, and it sounds like the primary… Continue reading

“Civil rights law on Supreme Court’s mind”

January 27, 2012, 10:51 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Reuters: “A recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that dealt with a narrow issue in a redistricting case from Texas suggests that the nation’s top court is ready to reconsider a key part of the Voting Rights Act,… Continue reading

“Messin’ with Texas; The Legal Wrangle over Redistricting”

January 27, 2012, 10:01 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Must-read Sam Issacharoff piece in the Boston Review: Texas shows that asking the wrong question yields no good answer. So long as the question is how many seats Republican insiders should give to Democratic and Hispanic outsiders, the answer will… Continue reading

NYT Editorializes on the Shelby County Voting Rights Case

January 27, 2012, 8:13 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Times: When Congress nearly unanimously reauthorized the Voting Rights Act in 2006, it relied on abundant evidence that there is still pervasive, persistent, even Jim Crow-style voting discrimination in the South and elsewhere — including in Shelby County… Continue reading

“Testimony in Texas Redistricting Trial Ends”

January 26, 2012, 7:20 pmDepartment of Justice, redistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The latest from D.C.

“State’s witness concedes point in hearing on Texas districts”

January 26, 2012, 9:00 amredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Star-Telegram: “A key witness before a federal three-judge panel considering the Texas redistricting challenge appeared to make a major concession Wednesday to the case made last week by state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth.” More from Texas Redistricting on … Continue reading

Quote of the Day

January 25, 2012, 4:51 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, voting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

So, putting a voter identification law into effect to deter voter fraud is akin to posting an FBI agent in all bank lobbies in order to deter bank fraud. Just as bank fraud isn’t usually committed in the bank lobby,… Continue reading