“Texas’ Voter ID Law Does Not Discriminate and Can Stand, Appeals Panel Rules”
Manny Fernandez reports for the NY Times.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
5th Circuit ID ruling … and the Texas redistricting case.
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
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
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
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”
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”
[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
“Argument preview: Texas redistricting battles return to the court”
Amy Howe preview for SCOTUSBlog.
“U.S. Supreme Court wades into Texas political district fight”
Chuck Lindell for the Austin-American Statesman.
“Testimony ends in trial to determine if Dallas County discriminates against white voters”
“‘We’ve been disenfranchised’: Republicans in San Juan County say redrawn voter districts unfairly favor Navajos”
Salt Lake Tribune:
“I feel like we’ve been disenfranchised,” said Robert Turk, 57.
It was the shared sentiment Thursday at the first GOP convention in San Juan County since a federal judge redrew the boundaries to give Navajos, who tend… Continue reading
“Elections in small Alabama city are unfair to black voters, Legal Defense Fund letter says”
AL.com:
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is challenging the election process in a suburb of Birmingham, claiming it has kept blacks from being elected to local office and violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In a recent letter to… Continue reading
“Does Dallas County discriminate against white voters? Trial on voting rights lawsuit to begin”
Gromer Jeffers for the Dallas Morning News.
Federal Court Enters Final Judgment Against Challenger to California Voting Rights Act, Teeing Up Full Appeal to 9th Circuit
Read the district court’s latest order in Higginson v. Becerra.
This is a serious challenge. The challenger’s lawyer is William Consovoy, the lawyer who argued the Evenwel v. Abbott case on one person, one vote at the Supreme Court and… Continue reading