Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Roberts at 10: Campaign Finance and Voting Rights: Easier to Donate, Harder to Vote”
David Gans for CAC.
“The Supreme Court’s Gerrymandering Conundrum: Did Alabama legislators redraw district lines to hurt Democrats or to disenfranchise black voters?”
I have written this new piece for Slate. It begins:
As Democrats struggled last week to salvage control of the Senate, they pushed to get as many black voters to the polls as possible, especially in the South. It’s… Continue reading
“Voter Viagra: How to Cure America’s Electoral Apathy?”
“Justices to Hear Alabama Redistricting Case”
Mary Troyan writes for Gannett.
No, Shelby County Did Not “Abrogate” South Carolina v. Katzenbach
Joel Heller has a very nice piece in the California Law Review Circuit, Subsequent History Omitted, on Westlaw’s aberrant coding of the Shelby County voting rights case as having abrogated the original case upholding voting rights preclearance, South Carolina… Continue reading
“The Death of the Southern White Democrat Hurts African-Americans the Most”
Jason Zengerle writes for TNR.
NYT Room for Debate: Should Voting in An Election Be A Constitutional Right?
You can read the forum here.
Guarantee Basic Principles
KEITH ELLISON AND MARK POCAN, CONGRESSMEN
Take politicians in the nearly 10,000 voting jurisdictions out of the business of deciding who can vote and which votes count.
Enforce Existing Rights, … Continue reading
“To Guarantee Voting Rights, Enforce the Laws We Have”
This is my contribution to the NYT Room for Debate forum on a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote. It concludes:
Notably Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy did not join in Justice Alito’s troubling dissent (joined by Justices… Continue reading
Must-Read of the Day
Joey Fishkin on voting rights and Texas’s voter id law.
“Justice Department To Monitor Tuesday’s Elections In 18 States”
Chris Geidner reports for BuzzFeed.
Justice Ginsburg Makes Technical Change to Her North Carolina Voting Dissent
You can see the minor change in this tweet by SCOTUS_Servo.
“Wilson Elser, Bingham Win Voting Help For Native Alaskans”
“What’s Ahead in Texas Voter ID Battle”
Tim Eaton for the Austin-American Statesman:
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott won the most recent round in the fight to require voters to show valid photo identification to cast ballots, but a potentially much bigger fight looms beyond Tuesday.
Abbott’s… Continue reading