Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

“Fee-Fight Fallout From Voting Rights Decision Reaches High Court”

November 24, 2015, 5:28 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Marcia Coyle: Fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 blockbuster voting rights decision has reached the justices in two multimillion-dollar battles over attorney fees. If the high court agrees to step into either fight, the justices could be drawn… Continue reading

Stephanopoulos on Berman’s Give Us the Ballot

November 11, 2015, 7:13 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Over at the New Rambler: In his new book, Give Us the Ballot, journalist Ari Berman tells the story of these stirring moments, and tells it well. But unlike many civil rights chronicles, his account begins rather than ends… Continue reading

“Seeing Voting Rights Under Siege, Philip Glass Rewrites an Opera”

November 11, 2015, 6:51 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT: Since the first version of “Appomattox” had its premiere in 2007 at the San Francisco Opera, many states have passed laws making it harder to vote, and, in 2013, the Supreme Courteffectively struck down the heart … Continue reading

Breaking: 3-Judge Court Keeps Texas Redistricting Plan in Place, for Now

November 6, 2015, 4:07 pmredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

There has been a ruling, of sorts, in the never-ending Texas redistricting case challenging the Texas House and Texas congressional districts under the Voting Rights Act. The three-judge panel, which has been hearing permutations of this case for about half… Continue reading

“Attorney: Arizona voting maps don’t hurt GOP”

November 4, 2015, 6:50 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Arizona Daily Star: A Republican claim of bias in the legislative redistricting process does not stand up under scrutiny, according to an attorney for the Independent Redistricting Commission. In legal briefs filed at the U.S. Supreme Court, Mary O’Grady… Continue reading

Shelby County Case Could Be Heading Back to SCOTUS

November 3, 2015, 6:17 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

On attorneys fees issue. Read the cert. petition. Here is my earlier coverage from the Chutzpah Dept.

“Congressional Democrats Launch a New Strategy to Restore the Voting Rights Act”

November 3, 2015, 9:30 amVoting Rights Act, VRAARick Hasen

Ari Berman writes.

“The toxic erosion of voter rights in Alabama”

November 3, 2015, 7:40 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

WaPo editorial.

“Review ‘Give Us the Ballot’ is a sobering look at the modern struggle for voting rights in America”

November 1, 2015, 7:12 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

LAT.

“The Price of Union; The Undefeatable South”

October 29, 2015, 5:06 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Nicholas Lemann writes for the New Yorker. The civil-rights revolution, too, can be thought of as a bargain, not simply a victory: the nation has become Southernized just as much as the South has become nationalized. Political conservatism, the traditional… Continue reading

“Historic Voting-Rights Win in Alaska”

October 23, 2015, 7:24 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Indian Country Today: The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) and Alaska have jointly announced an agreement that requires the state to provide translation of election materials and ballots into Gwich’in and several Yup’ik dialects. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon… Continue reading

“Attorney General Paxton Asks SCOTUS to Declare Redistricting Attorneys’ Fees Award Unconstitutional Under Shelby County v. Holder”

October 22, 2015, 12:34 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Press release: The Texas Attorney General’s Office today petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court in State of Texas v. Wendy Davis, et al. to review and hold unconstitutional an award of attorneys’ fees to parties who challenged Texas’s redistricting maps. The… Continue reading