“Do Not Call John Lewis a ‘Hero’ if You Stood in His Way Republicans like Mitch McConnell and Brian Kemp are the reason the civil rights icon had to keep fighting until his dying breath.”
Joel Anderson for Slate.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“John Lewis’ Legacy Is the Right to Vote. And It’s Under Attack. A bill to restore the Voting Rights Act he championed has been sitting on Mitch McConnell’s desk for 225 days.”
Ari Berman:
On March 1, as he was battling stage 4 cancer, John Lewis returned to Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march, when he was brutally beaten marching for voting rights. “We… Continue reading
“Why it’s time for every state to enact its own voting rights law”
Ruth Greenwood and Roxana Norouzi in The Fulcrum.
MORE in this CLC report.
Breaking: California State Appeals Court Sides with City of Santa Monica in Reversing in California Voting Rights Act Case, With Potentially Big Implications
Back in February 2019, as noted on this blog, a California trial court held that the City of Santa Monica violated both the California Voting Rights Act and the California Constitution by continuing to use at large elections for its… Continue reading
“Court Blocks Montana Law That Restricts Voting Rights of Native Americans”
Release:
A Montana court has blocked a state law that severely restricts the right to vote for Native Americans.The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Montana, and Native American Rights Fund successfully sought the preliminary injunction halting the so-called… Continue reading
“The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act”
Giovanni Facchini, Brian G. Knight, Cecilia Testa for NBER:
This paper investigates the relationship between the franchise and law enforcement practices using evidence from the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965. We find that, following the VRA,… Continue reading
“The Federal Judiciary Tells Disenfranchised Voters: You’re On Your Own; In four awful decisions over the last two weeks, federal courts cleared the way for voter suppression in November.”
Mark Joseph Stern for Slate.
5th Circuit Overturns Finding that Louisiana Judicial Districts Violate Voting Rights Act
You can find the opinion, authored by Judge Edith Jones, at this link. The court found no liability under Section 2’s result’s test and rejected the district court finding of intentional racial discrimination. Judge Duncan, concurring in the judgment, believed… Continue reading
“As critical election nears, US’s most powerful voting rights enforcer goes dark”
“Election chaos renews focus on gutted Voting Rights Act”
In Dueling Concurring Opinions to 5th Circuit En Banc Order Dismissing Case as Moot, Judges Costa and Willett Debate Whether 3-Judge Courts Get Convened for Statutory Redistricting Challenges
Setting forth a battle for the future (via How Appealing).
“The Georgia Primary and the State of Voting Rights”
Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker.
DOJ Settles Voting Rights Act Section 2 Lawsuit with South Dakota School District Allegedly Violating Native American Rights; A Rare Pro-Voter Action by Trump DOJ
Tierney Sneed:
The DOJ announces a Voting Rights Act settlement in a case concerning a school district election process in South Dakota that allegedly disenfranchised Native American voters https://t.co/P8QQ1mcsOI pic.twitter.com/CCCNYM3iZW— Tierney Sneed (@Tierney_Megan) May 28, 2020
“DOJ: Witness requirement on Alabama absentee ballots not Voting Rights violation”
Montgomery Advertiser:
The U.S. Department of Justice argued in a brief filed Tuesday that Alabama’s current requirement to have witnesses sign an absentee ballot is not a violation of the Voting Rights Act. The brief, filed in a lawsuit… Continue reading