“Some Good News on State Voting Rights Bills”
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Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“House Passes a Voting Rights Bill, but a G.O.P. Blockade Awaits in the Senate”
NYT:
The House voted on Tuesday to restore federal oversight of state election laws under the 1965 Voting Rights Act and expand its reach, as Democrats moved to strengthen a crowning legislative achievement of the civil rights era amid a… Continue reading
“Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data” (“residents of entirely-black neighborhoods waited 29% longer to vote and were 74% more likely to spend more than 30 minutes at their polling place”)
New draft paper from M. Keith Chen, Kareem Haggag, Devin G. Pope, and Ryne Rohla. Abstract:
Equal access to voting is a core feature of democratic government. Using data from hundreds of thousands of smartphone users, we quantify a racial… Continue reading
“Racial Turnout Gap Grew in Jurisdictions Previously Covered by the Voting Rights Act”
Brennan Center analysis:
While in 2012, just before the Shelby County decision, the white-Black turnout gap was shrinking in the states we analyzed, and in many instances even briefly closed, this trend has reversed in the years since. In… Continue reading
“Federalizing the Voting Rights Act”
Travis Crum has posted this draft on SSRN (Vanderbilt L Rev Online). Here is the abstract:
In Presidential Control of Elections, Professor Lisa Marshall Manheim masterfully canvasses how “a president can affect the rules of elections that purport to hold… Continue reading
I Spoke with the Legal Talk Today Podcast About the Voting Rights Act and New Restrictive Voting Rules
You can listen here.
Nationwide preclearance of existing voter identification laws in the John L. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
Travis and Nick had helpful summaries and thoughts of the major components of H.R. 4, the John L. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. I wanted to highlight one interesting change from the 2019 edition of the VRAA, the scope of… Continue reading
“House Democrats introduce a bill to beef up the Voting Rights Act.”
NYT:
Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a long-awaited linchpin of their drive to protect voting rights, introducing legislation that would make it easier for the federal government to block state election rules found to be discriminatory to nonwhite voters.House leaders expect… Continue reading
Travis Crum: “Revising Sections 2 and 5 in the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021”
The following is a very helpful guest post from Travis Crum:
Following months of anticipation, Democrats in Congress unveiled the newest version of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA). In this post, I’ll highlight major portions… Continue reading
“On voting rights, Chief Justice Roberts is far from a moderating voice”
Hearing Monday at 10 am ET: “Oversight of the Voting Rights Act: Potential Legislative Reforms”
Over at the House Judiciary Committee.
“Dems plot last-ditch voting rights push as midterm clock ticks”
Politico:
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are preparing to take one more big swing at voting rights. They may end up hitting their base with a huge letdown.The House will return to Washington later this month to vote on… Continue reading
“John Roberts and the Supreme Court might block anything Democrats do on voting rights”
Tierney Sneed at CNN:
A key piece of congressional Democrats’ voting rights push faces not only a near-impossible odds of becoming law, but also a daunting court battle in front of a conservative judiciary if it does.The legislation, known… Continue reading
“House Democratic Report Documents Discriminatory Voting Cases”
Bloomberg:
House Democrats took another step toward considering a key voting rights bill by releasing a report documenting dozens of discriminatory election practices.The move Friday is a prelude to the introduction of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act,… Continue reading