Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

President Obama Talks Voting Rights and Fraud With Jeffrey Toobin

October 20, 2014, 5:05 pmDepartment of Justice, election administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

A part of this fascinating New Yorker piece: The subject of voting rights has largely been thrust upon Obama by a conservative judiciary. “You look at something like the Voting Rights Act, which was uncontroversial from a legal point… Continue reading

“Ginsburg Explains Saturday Surprise on Texas Voting Law”

October 20, 2014, 3:52 pmSupreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Tony Mauro writes for NLJ.

Two from Ari Berman on Voting Rights

October 20, 2014, 11:03 amSupreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The GOP is Winning the War on Voting The Supreme Court Eviscerates the Voting Rights Act in Texas Voter ID Decision

“Dawn Patrol: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s critically important 5 a.m. wake-up call on voting rights”

October 20, 2014, 8:00 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

[Bumping to the top for the Monday morning crowd.] I have written this new piece for Slate. It begins: On the surface, Supreme Court justices seem to have it pretty easy: They decide only around 70 cases per year with… Continue reading

“Castaic school district to shift to cumulative voting”

October 20, 2014, 7:45 amalternative voting systems, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

A wave of cumulative voting adoptions to avoid drawing majority-minority districts in the face of liability under the California Voting Rights Act.

“Crawford and the Politics of Voter ID”

October 20, 2014, 7:42 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Bauer’s latest.

“Voter-ID Actions Push Fight Past November; Supreme Court Lets Texas Apply Restrictions for Midterms, but Legality Hasn’t Been Decided”

October 19, 2014, 8:42 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Brent Kendall reports for WSJ.

Justice Ginsburg Tells Nina Totenberg About 5 AM Texas Voter ID Decision

October 19, 2014, 5:11 pmElections Clause, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

From this event at the 92nd Street Y [my transcription, and there could be errors]: Nina Totenberg: Justice Ginsburg, you were up until … Friday night/Saturday morning, writing a passionate dissent in the Texas voter id case. Just to let… Continue reading

“SCOTUS to Texas: Go Forth and Discriminate Against Your Citizens Starting Monday”

October 19, 2014, 4:12 pmSupreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Liz Kennedy blogs.

“In Judge’s Footnote, a Heavy Slap at Texas’ Past”

October 19, 2014, 2:34 pmThe Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ross Ramsey: Strange things show up in the footnotes of federal court rulings. Consider this one in a ruling by a federal judge in Corpus Christi, Tex., that the state’s voter photo ID law is unconstitutional: “The Texas… Continue reading

Explaining Justice Breyer’s Surprising (Non-)Vote in the Texas Voter ID Case

October 19, 2014, 1:46 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Justice Breyer did not join in Justice Ginsburg’s fiery 6-page dissent in the Texas voter id case the Supreme Court just decided. The majority let Texas’s law go into effect, despite a final judgment from a federal district court finding… Continue reading

Justice Scalia Requests Texas Response in Voter ID Case to SCOTUS

October 15, 2014, 2:22 pmSupreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Due 5 pm Eastern Thursday, according to Tim Eaton.

Read Texas Voter ID Challengers’ Emergency #SCOTUS Application

October 15, 2014, 7:48 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Here. [Revised document]

The 5th Circuit’s Concurrence

October 14, 2014, 3:08 pmelection law and constitutional law, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActJustin Levitt

Rick just quoted from Judge Costa’s concurrence in the 5th Circuit panel’s order — and I’d like to highlight one part of that concurrence. Judge Costa says, citing cases from Ohio and North Carolina, that “in two recent decisions, [the… Continue reading