“Does Dallas County discriminate against white voters? Trial on voting rights lawsuit to begin”
Gromer Jeffers for the Dallas Morning News.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
Federal Court Enters Final Judgment Against Challenger to California Voting Rights Act, Teeing Up Full Appeal to 9th Circuit
Read the district court’s latest order in Higginson v. Becerra.
This is a serious challenge. The challenger’s lawyer is William Consovoy, the lawyer who argued the Evenwel v. Abbott case on one person, one vote at the Supreme Court and… Continue reading
“What Has 25 Years of Racial Gerrymandering Doctrine Achieved?”
Mike Pitts has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, UC Irvine Law Review). Here is the abstract:
In 1993, Shaw v. Reno created a doctrine of racial gerrymandering that has now been in existence for 25 years. This Article examines… Continue reading
Watch Archived Video of Sherillyn Ifill, Pam Karlan, Debo Adegbile, Steve Mulroy and Me Talk Voting Rights at MLK50 Event
Speaking Monday in Memphis About Voting Rights 50 Years After MLK with Debo Adegbile, Sherrilyn Ifill, Pam Karlan, and Steve Mulroy
This University of Memphis/MLK 50 event should be outstanding, and especially the voting rights panel. I’m honored to be included.
I’ll be talking about this draft “Of Civil Right No. 1: Dr. King’s Unfinished Voting Rights Revolution,” which is forthcoming… Continue reading
“NAACP lawsuit seeks to prevent undercount of minority communities”
WaPo:
The NAACP said it is planning to file a lawsuit against the Census Bureau, the secretary of commerce and President Trump to force a more accurate count of minority populations such as those residing in Prince George’s County, Md.,… Continue reading
“Trump lawyer seeks to defend Texas political maps at Supreme Court”
Austin American-Statesman:
President Donald Trump’s top appellate lawyer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow him to argue in defense of Texas political maps that were found to be discriminatory by a lower court.
Solicitor General Noel Francisco… Continue reading
“Census to add controversial question on citizenship status”
Politico:
The 2020 U.S. Census will include a controversial question about citizenship status, the Commerce Department announced Monday night, a move that is set to spark outrage from Congressional Democrats, civil rights groups and liberal state attorneys general.
Critics have… Continue reading
“Mortality, Incarceration, and African American Disenfranchisement in the Contemporary United States”
David Cottrell, Michael C. Herron, Javier M. Rodriguez, and Daniel A. Smith have written this article for American Politics Research. Here is the abstract:
On account of poor living conditions, African Americans in the United States experience disproportionately high rates… Continue reading
ACLU Wins Voting Rights Act Section 2 Suit in Sumter County, Georgia
Release:
A federal court in Albany agreed with the ACLU Voting Rights Project, the Law Office of Bryan L. Sells, and the ACLU of Georgia, that the Sumter County Board of Elections and Registration’s current school board district lines are… Continue reading
“Georgia Republicans are trying to eliminate Sunday voting to suppress black turnout”
Kira Lerner:
Georgia Republicans are advancing a bill through the state legislature that would suppress African-American turnout by eliminating Sunday voting and cutting the hours that polls are open in Atlanta.
The bill, SB 363, would force polls in the… Continue reading
Federal Court Holds Kern County, California Violated Voting Rights Act by Not Creating a Second Latino Opportunity District for Supervisorial Elections
You can find the district court’s opinion here.
There will be further proceedings to address the remedy.
For the quantitative folks, there’s an interesting Morgan Kousser-Jonathan Katz methodological dispute over how to measure racially polarized voting.
Supreme Court Sets Oral Argument in Texas Redistricting Cases for April 24
Calendar via Kimberly Robinson.