Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

BREAKING: Federal Court Strikes TX ID Law

October 9, 2014, 5:53 pmelection law and constitutional law, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActJustin Levitt

Texas-sized news out of the Lone Star State. A federal court has struck down Texas’s voter ID law. It violates the Voting Rights Act, it violates the constitutional prohibition on poll taxes, it violates the constitutional prohibition of unjustified burdens,… Continue reading

Right Questions, Wrong Answers in Voter ID Decision

October 9, 2014, 2:46 amelection law and constitutional law, voter id, Voting Rights ActJustin Levitt

Prof. Chris Elmendorf, over at the Election Law @ Moritz site, dives deep on the 7th Circuit’s WI voter ID decision. It begins: Earlier this week Rick Hasen blasted Judge Easterbook’s opinion upholding Wisconsin’s voter ID requirement as… Continue reading

ACLU Flags Judge Easterbrook’s Factual Inaccuracies in Horrendous WI Voter ID Decision

October 8, 2014, 11:11 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Press release about Judge Easterbrook’s terrible analysis: The motion filed today also notes factual inaccuracies in the appeals panel’s ruling, including: “The Seventh Circuit also could not fathom that so many registered Wisconsin voters lack a photo ID ‘in… Continue reading

“State Voting Laws in Legal Limbo”

October 8, 2014, 10:46 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

WSJ’s Washington Wire reports.

What’s Up With the Texas Voter ID Case?

October 8, 2014, 10:35 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Back on September 22, when the federal district court in Corpus Christi heard closing arguments in the case arguing that Texas’s strict voter id law violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause and the Voting Rights Act’s section 2, I wrote… Continue reading

Breaking: WI Voter ID Challengers File New Stay Request at #SCOTUS

October 8, 2014, 9:40 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, voter registration, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

This new request from the challengers to Wisconsin’s voter id law seeks a stay of the judgment on the merits issued by the 7th Circuit while the first stay request was pending before the Supreme Court. (Here is my analysis… Continue reading

“NC says it’s making plans to comply with voter law”

October 8, 2014, 8:06 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

WRAL: North Carolina is moving ahead with plans to comply with an appeals court ruling that restores same-day registration and counting out-of-precinct ballots for the fall election, a state attorney told a federal judge Tuesday. But members of civil… Continue reading

“Court declares Virginia’s congressional map unconstitutional”

October 7, 2014, 7:53 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

WaPo reports.

NC Files Follow Up #SCOTUS Letter on Today’s Voting Hearing in District Court

October 7, 2014, 5:03 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Following up on this post, North Carolina has filed this letter with the Supreme Court. As anticipated, it has a much different take on what happened today in the trial court over the question of how onerous it would… Continue reading

The Virginia redistricting decision

October 7, 2014, 3:59 pmelection law and constitutional law, redistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActJustin Levitt

Rick mentioned the Virginia congressional redistricting decision earlier today. I’ve already seen some confusion about this: the decision doesn’t depend on Shelby County. Indeed, as I read it, the decision would have been exactly the the same if Shelby County… Continue reading

The 7th Circuit denominator

October 7, 2014, 3:42 pmThe Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActJustin Levitt

No time like the present to start “easing in,” I guess. Others have already said quite a bit about yesterday’s 7th Circuit voter ID decision. I’ve written many times about the ID-on-a-plane fallacy (it’s both irrelevant and wrong), about… Continue reading

No North Carolina Ruling from #SCOTUS Yet: What Does It Mean?

October 7, 2014, 3:05 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

It is the end of the work day on the East Coast, and the day has come and gone with no order from the Supreme Court on North Carolina’s request to stop the 4th Circuit’s order requiring the restoration of… Continue reading

The Ed Blum Law Firm

October 7, 2014, 2:02 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Tony Mauro: Two Wiley Rein partners from the Washington office have left the firm—and they are taking a Supreme Court legal clinic and parts of some high-profile litigation with them. William Consovoy and Thomas McCarthy last week launched the… Continue reading

Read Wisconsin’s #SCOTUS Argument to Use Its New Voter ID Law This Election

October 7, 2014, 12:58 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Here (via Josh Gerstein). The brief is pretty much in line with what Wisconsin filed in the 7th Circuit (although of course now it has the benefit of the Easterbrook opinion on the merits). It continues to lead with its… Continue reading