Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

“Court Rules Santa Clara Violated the California Voting Rights Act”

May 17, 2018, 8:19 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

NBC Bay Area: A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge announced Tuesday that he believes Santa Clara’s at-large voting system violates the California Voting Rights Act and has impaired the Asian-American population from getting elected. Santa Clara registered voters Ladonna… Continue reading

“Distance, language can still pose challenge to Native American voting”

May 15, 2018, 6:57 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Cronkite News reports (h/t Doug Chapin).

Federal Court Rejects DNC Voting Rights Act Challenge to Arizona Rules About Counting Ballots Cast in Wrong Precinct, Prohibiting Most Collection of Absentee Ballots

May 9, 2018, 7:28 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can find the 83-page opinion at this link. Near the end of the opinion, the court rejects treating race as party proxy argument: Based on the totality of the circumstances, Plaintiffs have not shown that the legislature enacted H.B.… Continue reading

ACS Phone Briefing Today: Judicial Gerrymandering? The Voting Rights Act, Judicial Elections, and Redistricting

May 2, 2018, 7:33 amjudicial elections, redistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Details: Judicial Gerrymandering? The Voting Rights Act, Judicial Elections, and Redistricting May 2, 2018 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM Event Location: ACS Webinar , Details: In recent weeks, the North Carolina General Assembly has proposed redrawing the map of the… Continue reading

Roundup on Stories About Texas Voter ID Decision

April 30, 2018, 10:12 amThe Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Howard has it. And see my earlier post on the case, which begins: In what I consider to be a fundamentally disingenuous analysis by 5th Circuit Judge Edith Jones, a divided 5th Circuit panel has not only held that Texas’s… Continue reading

“The Justice Department Deleted Language About Press Freedom And Racial Gerrymandering From Its Internal Manual”

April 29, 2018, 2:48 pmDepartment of Justice, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

BuzzFeed: The part of the manual addressing the Justice Department’s civil rights work was revised in March. In a section discussing enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, the new version removes previous references to redistricting and racial gerrymandering. The previous … Continue reading

“Texas’ Voter ID Law Does Not Discriminate and Can Stand, Appeals Panel Rules”

April 27, 2018, 8:00 pmThe Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Manny Fernandez reports for the NY Times.

5th Circuit ID ruling … and the Texas redistricting case.

April 27, 2018, 5:02 pmelection administration, election law and constitutional law, redistricting, voter id, Voting Rights ActJustin Levitt

Earlier today, Rick noted the 5th Circuit’s opinion on Texas’s voter ID law. I agree with much of his critique of the court’s resolution of the section 3(c) preclearance issue. In my post on the Texas redistricting cases earlier… Continue reading

Breaking and Analysis: Divided 5th Circuit Rejects Latest Challenge to Texas’s Voter ID Law, But Prospect for Further Litigation Remains

April 27, 2018, 2:14 pmThe Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can find a majority opinion by Judge Jones, concurring opinion by Judge Higginbotham, and dissenting opinion by Judge Graves in Veasey v. Abbott at this link. In what I consider to be a fundamentally disingenuous analysis by 5th Circuit… Continue reading

What is An Injunction? The Texas Redistricting Case at the Supreme Court and a Way to Duck the Merits

April 24, 2018, 4:11 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

It was somewhat of a surprise in September 2017 when the Supreme Court on a 5-4 vote blocked a three judge-court hearing an interminable Texas redistricting case from imposing final maps. The surprise came because the Court had not yet… Continue reading

Ninth Circuit Motions Panel Refuses to Enjoin California Voting Rights Act, Pending Expedited Appeal

April 24, 2018, 7:44 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Order: Filed order (RICHARD C. TALLMAN and MARY H. MURGUIA) Appellant Higginsons emergency motion for injunction pending appeal in 18-55455 (Docket Entry No. ) is denied. Appellants opposed request to expedite appeal No. 18-55455 is granted in part. The opening… Continue reading

“Seven years later: Why everyone is mad in the Texas redistricting fight”

April 22, 2018, 9:14 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Alexa Ura with the lede of the day (though this curtain raiser is a few weeks old): Everyone in the Texas redistricting fight is pissed off.

“Scalia’s Goal Of Unwinding Voter Protections Is Becoming A Reality”

April 22, 2018, 9:01 pmScalia, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

[bumping to the top given the upcoming Tuesday argument in the Texas redistricting cases] I have written this piece for TPM Cafe. It begins: In a Supreme Court term already bursting with election cases, from two partisan gerrymandering disputes to… Continue reading