Breaking: Pam Karlan to DOJ
Huge news from Jeffrey Toobin: “Confirmed by DOJ: Noted voting rights expert and Stanford prof Pamela Karlan to join Obama admin as Dep Asst AG for voting rights. #scotus”
MORE from Josh Gerstein.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
Voting Makes List of Top Performance Challenges at DOJ in 2013
From the OIG:
The non-ideological, non-partisan enforcement of law is fundamental to the public’s trust in the Department. Yet in a recent report assessing how the enforcement priorities of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division have changed… Continue reading
“Universalism and Civil Rights (with Notes on Voting Rights after Shelby)”
Sam Bagenstos has posted this important draft on SSRN (forthcoming Yale Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
After the Supreme Court invalidated the core of the Voting Rights Act’s preclearance regime in Shelby County v. Holder, civil rights activists proposed… Continue reading
Audio Now Available of this Week’s Joint CA Legislative Hearing on the Federal Voting Rights Act
Here.
“North Carolina voting changes to go on trial in 2015”
Judicial Watch Brings Out Big Guns in North Carolina Voting Challenge
Former DOJ voting section lawyers Robert Popper and Chris Coates are leading a team trying to intervene against DOJ in the North Carolina Voting Rights Act lawsuit.
My Testimony to the Joint California Legislative Committee on the Future of the Federal Voting Rights Act
As noted, there’s a joint hearing Thursday morning at the California legislature on the federal Voting Rights Act.
You can read my prepared testimony here. I address four issues related to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Shellby County decision:… Continue reading
“Challengers of new NC voting regulations want 2014 trial; state officials push for delay”
News & Observer:
Parties who are a gulf apart over what laws should be in place to ensure fair and open elections are just as widely divided about how quickly a lawsuit challenging new voter laws should be heard… Continue reading
Chapin on Issacharoff and Overton on Voting Rights Disclosure
Joint CA Assembly/Senate Committee Hearing on Federal Voting Rights Act Thursday
The California Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments and the California Assembly Committee on Elections and Redistricting are having a joint informational hearing on the “Status of the Federal Voting Rights Act” on Thursday at 9:30 am in Sacramento.… Continue reading
“The Year in Preview: Post-Preclearance Voter Protection”
Abby Rapoport writes for TAP.
Jeffrey Toobin Sees Voting Rights as 1 of Top 7 Legal Stories in 2014
See here. I am writing something a bit more expanded along similar lines.
Voting Rights Disclosure
In my Harvard Law Review Forum piece Voting Rights Disclosure, I articulate my differences with NYU Professor Sam Issacharoff’s “non-civil rights” approach to voting rights (abstract below), and I propose detailed disclosure of voting changes for federal, state, and… Continue reading