Release:  The Justice Department (DOJ) has stated that it will no longer deploy federal observers inside polling sites, a long-standing and critical component of its election monitoring efforts.  The Justice Department announced that it will cease dispatching federal election… Continue reading

Jonathan Bernstein for Bloomberg View.

From AL.com on the amended complaint, which adds Alabama Legislative Black Caucus as a plaintiff.

Now on SSRN.  Here’s the abstract: A generation ago, the Supreme Court upended the voting rights world. In the breakthrough case of Thornburg v. Gingles, the Court held that minority groups that are residentially segregated and electorally polarized are… Continue reading

NBC Op-Ed, in what appears to be a concerted effort to mobilize APA support for the VRAA.

NBC reports: “Three years after the Supreme Court invalidated part of the Voting Rights Act, voting rights advocates and some elected officials are concerned that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are among those increasingly threatened by voter discrimination.”

Don’t hold your breath.

The subtitle of his Rolling Stone piece claims “it’s easier to buy a gun than vote in many states,” though the link between Shelby County and new voting restrictions in swing states like Ohio and Wisconsin — neither of which… Continue reading