Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

“Georgia Republicans are trying to eliminate Sunday voting to suppress black turnout”

March 16, 2018, 12:34 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

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

February 23, 2018, 5:09 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

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

February 23, 2018, 8:53 amredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Calendar via Kimberly Robinson.

“Common Cause Pennsylvania Concludes Analysis of New Congressional Maps – Finds No Violations of Voting Rights Act”

February 23, 2018, 8:36 amredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Statement.

NAACP LDF Files Brief in Eleventh Circuit on Legality of Alabama Voter ID Law.

February 21, 2018, 6:07 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Read the brief and press release.

“New Pa. congressional district map could be challenged by Common Cause, NAACP on civil rights grounds”

February 21, 2018, 6:01 pmredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

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

February 12, 2018, 7:28 pmjudicial elections, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

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

February 8, 2018, 5:25 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Can’t wait to read all of these: VOLUME 127 2017-2018 COLLECTION 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

February 8, 2018, 5:04 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

It’s the most recent three posted here. See also this news story.

“Potential citizenship question in 2020 Census could shift power to rural America”

January 24, 2018, 8:00 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

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”

January 23, 2018, 7:45 amfelon voting, political polarization, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

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?

January 19, 2018, 12:18 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

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”

January 18, 2018, 7:44 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

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”

January 15, 2018, 6:24 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

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

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