Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

“Martin Luther King’s Call to ‘Give Us the Ballot’ Is As Relevant Today as It Was in 1957”

January 15, 2018, 6:24 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Barbara Arnwine and John Nichols: To bend that arc, a new National Commission for Voter Justice has been constituted at the urging of the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr., leaders of the National Bar Association and scholars and activists from… Continue reading

“The Supreme Court takes on two redistricting cases from Texas”

January 15, 2018, 6:23 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Steven Mazie for The Economist.

Roundup of Stories on SCOTUS Decision to Hear Texas Redistricting Cases

January 15, 2018, 6:22 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Read it here.

“No, Republicans haven’t ‘always’ supported voting rights until now. This is the real story”

January 12, 2018, 1:39 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Jesse Rhodes for The Monkey Cage

Analysis: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear (Part of) Texas Redistricting Cases, But Not Partisan Gerrymandering; What Does It Mean, and What About North Carolina?

January 12, 2018, 1:13 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

As expected, the Supreme Court today agreed to hear both the state and congressional Texas redistricting cases, consolidating them, postponing a decision on jurisdiction (more on that below), and likely (but not certainly) setting them up for argument in… Continue reading

Likely Coming Friday: A Supreme Court Order to Hear the Texas Redistricting Cases

January 11, 2018, 8:35 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Tomorrow is one of the last opportunities for the Supreme Court to set cases to be argued this term, which ends in late June. Last week during its private conference the Court considered whether or not to hear the state… Continue reading

Today’s Must-Read: “For Native Americans, a ‘Historic Moment’ on the Path to Power at the Ballot Box”

January 4, 2018, 10:25 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Julie Turkewitz in the NYT: Fights over indigenous voting rights are playing out in the West and the Midwest, a trend that has the potential to tip tight races in states with large native populations, like Alaska and Arizona, and… Continue reading

“2018: A Big Year for Voting Rights Restoration?”

January 3, 2018, 1:18 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Goldfeder and Perez for the NYLJ.

“Sherrilyn Ifill: ‘Black Voters In Alabama Mattered'”

December 29, 2017, 8:04 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

On NPR’s Morning Edition.

Rev. Barber on Tom Farr: “Trump’s Terrible Choice for Judge”

December 27, 2017, 10:59 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT oped: mong President Trump’s worrisome nominees to the judiciary, perhaps none is as alarming as Thomas Alvin Farr, a protégé of Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina senator, and a product of the modern white supremacist machine that Mr.… Continue reading

Marc Alexander Reviews Ari Berman’s “Give Us the Ballot”

December 26, 2017, 5:16 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Here, in California Litigation.

“Black Turnout in Alabama Complicates Debate on Voting Laws”

December 24, 2017, 12:30 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Important NYT read: But research, particularly of voter ID laws in Texas, Wisconsin and other states, provides an imprecise picture of how much similar laws suppress turnout. And Eitan Hersh, a Tufts University political scientist who contributed to the analysis… Continue reading

Trump DOJ Sides with Texas Again in Voter ID Case, Opposing Plaintiffs’ Motion to Lift Stay in Case

December 22, 2017, 12:52 pmThe Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

DOJ filing: The United States opposes private plaintiffs-appellees’ motion to lift the stay pending appeal that the motions panel entered on September 5, 2017. The parties’ merits briefs and oral argument before this Court only reinforce the strong likelihood that… Continue reading

Supreme Court May Decide The First Week in January to Set Texas Redistricting Cases for Argument

December 21, 2017, 11:25 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Congressional docket. State case. Given that the Court has already issued a stay in each of these cases it is almost certain the Court will set them for argument, with a result likely this term. This means we… Continue reading