ABA Journal: A dissent by Circuit Judge Edith Brown Clement in a Mississippi gerrymandering case is raising some questions and eyebrows. What, exactly, did the federal appeals judge mean when she wrote that the state defendants “have simply had the… Continue reading

Steve Mazie for the Economist.

Release from the Laywers’ Committee via email: Last night, a federal appeals court ordered Mississippi officials to redraw district lines for a state senate district in the Mississippi Delta, leaving undisturbed the finding by federal district judge Carlton Reeves that… Continue reading

Voice of OC: “The imposition of at-large elections by the City of Orange has resulted in vote dilution for the Latino residents and has denied them effective political participation in elections to the five-member Orange City Council,” reads the… Continue reading

Salon asks. The answer is no.

The Hill reports: Several Democratic presidential hopefuls visited Selma, Ala., on Sunday to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march in the city.Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who have each announced their… Continue reading

LA Times: ” [A] conservative group is backing Poway’s former mayor in a federal court fight, arguing that the California [Voting Rights Act] forces ethnic gerrymandering on unwilling citizens and their elective bodies. The case is before the U.S.… Continue reading

Guest post from Travis Crum: Democrats in the House and Senate recently unveiled the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019 (“VRAA”), the latest version in a series of bills intended to restore the coverage formula invalidated in Shelby County v. … Continue reading

The Guardian: But Sewell and her colleagues are playing a long game in the hope that Democrats, should theyregain control of the White House and both chambers of Congress as they did most recently in 2008, would then be… Continue reading