“Mississippi Quotes John Roberts to Defend Its Racist Election Law”
Matt Ford for TNR.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Mississippi: Election lawsuit is not about voting rights”
The
AP has a story about a lawsuit challenging the requirement for winning
statewide office that candidates win both a majority of the popular vote and
a plurality of the vote in the majority of Mississippi state house districts.
Redistricting using a citizenship count
Ari Berman adds his voice to discussion of the potential ahead.
“The Feds Have Helped Some Gerrymandering to Thrive”
A letter
in the WSJ claims that Eric Holder helped to lead the charge in Bethune-Hill, after
approving Virginia districts in 2011.
Consider me skeptical.
The letter appears to conflate preclearance approval (which focused on two
particular legal standards;… Continue reading
10th Circuit upholds San Juan County race-and-redistricting decision
San Juan County, Utah, has had a long history of trouble, over several decades, with respect to providing equal opportunities for the Navajo community, including in voting. Today, the 10th Circuit affirmed a lower court opinion redrawing the district lines… Continue reading
Citizenship and the Census: pivot to redistricting
And here’s the other turn Rick’s been forecasting: a
HuffPost piece discussing the potential to use data culled for the
President’s Executive Order in the redistricting process. And a WaPo
dive on the potential consequences.
Crum: “Rucho and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act”
The following is a guest post from Travis Crum:
In Rucho v. Common Cause, the conservatives on the Supreme Court finally prevailed on their decades-long effort to declare partisan gerrymandering a non-justiciable political question. Rather than add to… Continue reading
“John Lewis’s tears over ancestor’s voter card stir emotions in Democratic caucus”
WaPo:
Rep. John Lewis and several of his Democratic colleagues broke down in tears during a closed-door meeting Tuesday after a historian described the congressman’s reaction when he saw his great-great-grandfather’s voter registration card for the first time.The House Democratic… Continue reading
“LDF Files Lawsuit to Ensure Black Voters Have Voice in Electing Judges to Highest State Courts in Arkansas”
Release:
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), with co-counsel, Arkie Byrd of Mays, Byrd & O’Guinn, P.A., and the law firm of Shearman & Sterling, LLP filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Black voters… Continue reading
“Black voters sue Mississippi over Jim Crow-era laws that benefit white candidates”
Think Progress:
A group of black voters is challenging Mississippi’s racist, Jim Crow-era laws that try to give a decided advantage to white candidates vying for statewide office, ahead of a critically important election for governor that is expected to… Continue reading
Suit Claiming Louisiana Violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by Failing to Create Second African-American Opportunity District Survives Motion to Dismiss
You can find the ruling at this link.
“Republicans and the Voting Rights Act”
Michael Morley has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Tulsa Law Review). Here is the abstract:
This invited essay reviews Jesse H. Rhodes’s book Ballot Blocked: The Political Erosion of the Voting Rights Act. The book’s main thesis is that… Continue reading
Federal District Court Orders Further Relief to Get Spanish Language Materials into the Hands of Voters in 32 Florida Counties
Court order. (Dated May 10.)
There’s a rulemaking in progress for new rules in time for 2020.