Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

GOP Statement on Voting Rights Act Celebrates Early Voting, While GOP Legislators Cut It Back

August 6, 2015, 8:38 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Republican National Committee statement on the 50 anniversary of Voting Rights Act: “The Voting Rights Act of 1965 enjoyed broad Republican support, but protecting citizens’ right to vote in free and fair elections is not merely a Republican priority. It… Continue reading

“How to Save the Voting Rights Act”

August 6, 2015, 7:30 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

[bumping to the top for today’s 50th anniversary of the VRA; see also my coverage of yesterday’s very important 5th Circuit Texas voter id ruling.] I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: In 2010, the Simpsons featured a … Continue reading

“50 Years of the Voting Rights Act”

August 6, 2015, 7:15 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Spencer Overton: The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies recently released 50 Years of the Voting Rights Act: The State of Race in Politics . The report is critical to understanding the impact of the Act and the… Continue reading

“Rep. John Lewis and Sen. Patrick Leahy: Restore voting rights”

August 6, 2015, 7:04 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

LAT oped.

“The Voting Rights Act Is 50 Years Old Today. So Why Do Things Still Seem So Bad”

August 6, 2015, 7:03 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

HuffPo reports.

“Texas voter ID law ruled invalid — in part”

August 6, 2015, 7:00 amSupreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Lyle Denniston: Acting one day before the fiftieth anniversary of the nation’s most important voting rights law, a federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that Texas will be barred from enforcing at least part of its four-year-old law that… Continue reading

“Why the Voting Rights Act Is Once Again Under Threat”

August 6, 2015, 6:55 amVoting Rights Act, VRAARick Hasen

Ari Berman writes for The New York Times oped page.

“Celebrating one of the Voting Rights Act’s many anniversaries”

August 6, 2015, 6:54 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Brianne Gorod at Constitution Daily.

“The Voting Rights Umbrella”

August 6, 2015, 6:53 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

President Bill Clinton essay in the Yale Law and Policy Review.

US AG Lynch Statement on Texas Voter ID Ruling

August 5, 2015, 5:53 pmThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Here, via Chris Geidner, whose story on the ruling is here at Buzzfeed.

“Redistricting Could Have the Most Disparate Effect”

August 5, 2015, 4:01 pmredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Nick Stephanopoulos’s contribution to NYT’s Room for Debate forum on the future of the Voting Rights Act is now up.

“Appellate Panel Says Texas ID Law Broke U.S. Voting Rights Act”

August 5, 2015, 3:59 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Erik Eckholm reports for the NYT.

“Court: Texas Voter ID Law Violates Voting Rights Act”

August 5, 2015, 3:57 pmThe Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Texas Tribune reports.

Press Statement from TX AG Fails to Acknowledge 5th Circuit Held Voter ID Law Violates Voting Rights Act

August 5, 2015, 1:57 pmThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Weird. Attorney General Paxton Statement on Voter ID Ruling Texas’ Voter ID Law to Remain in Effect AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today released the following statement on the ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for… Continue reading