Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“New Pa. congressional district map could be challenged by Common Cause, NAACP on civil rights grounds”
This development is unexpected:
Micah Sims, executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania, said his organization and the state NAACP are considering filing suit in federal court to challenge the new map imposed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court this week.
He… Continue reading
Texas Defends Its Lack of Latino Appellate Judges by Claiming It is All About Party, Not Race
Courthouse News Service:
“Since 1945, only five of the 76 justices to serve on the Supreme Court, a mere 6.6 percent, were Latino. During the same period, 69 of those 76 justices, or 89.5 percent, were white,” LUPE said in… Continue reading
Yale Law Journal Forum symposium: Five Years After Shelby County v. Holder: The Ongoing Fight for Voting Rights
Can’t wait to read all of these:
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Five Years After Shelby County v. Holder: The Ongoing Fight for Voting Rights
08 FEB 2018
In the five years since Shelby County v. Holder, voting rights litigators… Continue reading
Watch Videos of Recent Hearings on Voting Rights in North Carolina from the USCCR
“Potential citizenship question in 2020 Census could shift power to rural America”
WaPo:
A request by the Justice Department to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census could shift the nation’s balance of political power from cities to more rural communities over the next decade and give Republicans a new advantage… Continue reading
“’Civil Right No. 1:’ Dr. King’s Unfinished Voting Rights Revolution”
I have posted this draft on SSRN, which is forthcoming in a special symposium issue of the University of Memphis Law Review commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. (More about that symposium here.) … Continue reading
Breaking and Analysis: Three Judge Court in North Carolina Racial Gerrymandering Case Unanimously Adopts Special Master Plans for Remedying Violations; Next Stop SCOTUS?
In a unanimous and expected opinion and order (92 page pdf), the three judge court in the Covington case, on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, adopted special master Nate Persily’s plan to adopt new legislative districts to… Continue reading
“Borenstein: Flawed California law creates tectonic shift in local elections”
Dan Borenstein column for the Mercury News:
Cities and school districts across California are facing legal ultimatums: Convert from at-large elections to balloting by district, or risk spending millions of dollars on litigation.
Some jurisdictions are fighting back. But most… Continue reading
“Martin Luther King’s Call to ‘Give Us the Ballot’ Is As Relevant Today as It Was in 1957”
Barbara Arnwine and John Nichols:
To bend that arc, a new National Commission for Voter Justice has been constituted at the urging of the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr., leaders of the National Bar Association and scholars and activists from… Continue reading
“The Supreme Court takes on two redistricting cases from Texas”
Steven Mazie for The Economist.
Roundup of Stories on SCOTUS Decision to Hear Texas Redistricting Cases
“No, Republicans haven’t ‘always’ supported voting rights until now. This is the real story”
Jesse Rhodes for The Monkey Cage
Analysis: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear (Part of) Texas Redistricting Cases, But Not Partisan Gerrymandering; What Does It Mean, and What About North Carolina?
As expected, the Supreme Court today agreed to hear both the state and congressional Texas redistricting cases, consolidating them, postponing a decision on jurisdiction (more on that below), and likely (but not certainly) setting them up for argument in… Continue reading