Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Donald Trump’s shocking upset emboldens Texas GOP” Including on Voter ID
Texas Tribune:
One example? Voter ID. Texas lawmakers are under a court order to fix the state’s tough voter ID law when they meet again in January in Austin. The likelihood that the fix is “not going to be overturned… Continue reading
“Shifting Stance of Trump’s DOJ May Impact Voting Rights Litigation”
Bert Rein, Lawyer for Shelby County, Says Maybe #SCOTUS Decision Good Because It Deterred “Some Illegals” from Voting
Wow:
Both Kang and Hasen said whether the Shelby decision tipped the election is less important than whether it unnecessarily disenfranchised any number of voters, even if it was less than a substantial amount.
We put the same question to… Continue reading
Linda Greenhouse, Changing Tone, Urges CJ Roberts to Rise Above Politics in North Carolina Voting Case
Linda sees what I see, which is the prospect of an even more conservative Court for the next generation. And now rather than criticizing CJ Roberts’ positions on race and voting, she has a different argument:
He needs to… Continue reading
“White Won. We are still the country that produced George Wallace. We are still the country that killed Emmett Till.”
Jamelle Bouie:
Americans are stubbornly, congenitally optimistic. And the millions who backed Trump see something in his visage. Something that gives them hope. Here’s what I see. I see a man who empowered white nationalists and won. I see a… Continue reading
Racial Disparities in Long Lines at Polling Places Too
Emily Badger for NYT’s The UpShot:
Early voters, urban voters and minority voters are all more likely to wait and wait and wait. In predominantly minority communities, the lines are about twice as long as in predominantly white ones, Mr.… Continue reading
“The Supreme Court and Voter Suppression”
Andrew Cohen:
I wonder what goes through the mind of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts these frantic days as he reads one account after another of voter suppression in the 2016 election. Does he regret his decisive… Continue reading
Breaking: 9th Circuit Grants En Banc in AZ Case Involving Counting Out-of-Precinct Ballots
Order.
(Confusingly, there are now two en bancs named Feldman stemming from the same AZ case: this one on out of precinct ballots and the other on “ballot harvesting”).
From my coverage yesterday:
Same panel as in the… Continue reading
9th Circuit, on 2-1 Vote, Rejects Argument AZ Must Count Ballots Cast in the Wrong Precinct
Same panel as in the other aspect of the Feldman case, same 2-1 split: this time, whether Arizona’s rule that ballots cast by a voter in the wrong precinct should not count (for those races that the voter was… Continue reading
“Flouting Federal Courts On Voter ID Isn’t Helping Texas’ Legal Defense”
Tierney Sneed for TPM.
“Are Voter ID Laws Dead? That Depends.”
Daniel Vock for Governing.
“Amicus: Intimidation Nation — Lawyers challenging punitive voting restrictions in Ohio are making an eleventh hour appeal to the Supreme Court.”
Dahlia Lithwick podcast:
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder, many states made changes to their voting laws that may disproportionately harm minorities. This week, lawyers in Ohio filed an emergency … Continue reading
“John Roberts and the Shifting Politics of Race”
Nathan Pippenger for Democracy Journal.