Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

“Federal court blocks Texas law restricting language assistance to voters”

August 16, 2016, 3:03 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Release: The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) applauded a federal court order blocking the Texas law that limits access to interpreters for limited English proficient voters. The district court ruled that the Texas law, which requires interpreters… Continue reading

Texas Will Seek #SCOTUS Review of 5th Circuit Voter ID Ruling: Is It Planning on Challenging Rules This Election?

August 16, 2016, 12:13 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Texas has already agreed to a softening of its voter id law for this election. As expected, the state has announced it will file a cert. petition at the Supreme Court seeking review. But this line in the Dallas… Continue reading

“North Carolina Won’t Stop Suppressing the Vote”

August 16, 2016, 9:08 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ari Berman for The Nation.

“North Carolina asks the Justices to step in on voter ID law”

August 16, 2016, 9:05 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Amy Howe for SCOTUSBlog.

“The Stunning Chutzpah Of North Carolina’s Voter Suppression Attorneys”

August 16, 2016, 8:57 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ian Millhiser tears apart Paul Clement’s brief.

“Mecklenburg elections board cuts hours for early voting”

August 16, 2016, 7:29 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Why is North Carolina afraid of black people voting? Despite pleas not to curtail early voting, Mecklenburg County elections officials voted Monday to cut the overall number of hours from the 2012 election by 238, even while opening as many… Continue reading

“North Carolina Took 17 Days to Ask Supreme Court to Rescue Its Voter ID Law”

August 15, 2016, 8:34 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Cristian Farias for HuffPo.

Breaking: North Carolina Files Emergency #SCOTUS Stay Request in Voting Case

August 15, 2016, 2:50 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

A full 17 days after the 4th Circuit held that challenged provisions of North Carolina’s voting law had to be blocked because they were passed with a racially discriminatory purpose, the state of North Carolina has filed this petition asking… Continue reading

“U.S. judge blocks Texas law on election interpreters”

August 15, 2016, 7:13 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Austin American-Statesman: A federal judge Friday blocked Texas from enforcing a state law that limits the availability of interpreters in polling places, ruling that it violates protections guaranteed by the U.S. Voting Rights Act. The ruling by U.S. District Judge… Continue reading

“How the Voting Rights Act Could Be a Path to Police Reform”

August 12, 2016, 2:53 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Brentin Mock: For the Leadership Conference, which represents more than 200 organizations dedicated to protecting the rights of people of color, that means Congress needs to pass long-idling bills including the End Racial Profiling Act, the Law Enforcement Trust … Continue reading

Breaking: WI Files Emergency Stay in Second Voting Case

August 12, 2016, 2:48 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Although WI tried to spin yesterday’s loss as a win, now they’ve gone to the 7th Circuit with this emergency motion. The state wants 7 election rollbacks the trial court found illegal to be reinstated before the election, and… Continue reading

District Court in Other WI Case Mostly Denies WI Request for Stay of Ruling

August 11, 2016, 7:33 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Order does loosen up timeframe for softening of WI’s voter ID law through new DMV procedures: IT IS ORDERED that defendants’ motion to stay the court’s permanent injunction pending appeal, Dkt. 241, is DENIED in substantial part. As explained above,… Continue reading

Breaking: WI Voter ID Plaintiffs File Emergency 7th Circuit En Banc Petition for ID Softening

August 11, 2016, 2:10 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Via Josh Gerstein comes this petition, filed very quickly by the Voting Rights plaintiffs in the Wisconsin voter id case. It asks the full 7th Circuit to reverse the stay of the affidavit softening order by the trial court… Continue reading

Breaking: 3-Judge Court Unanimously Rules NC State Districts Unconstitutional Racial Gerrymander

August 11, 2016, 11:44 amredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

A unanimous 3-judge court (including the district court judge who recently upheld North Carolina’s strict voting law) has held in a 167-page opinion that challenged North Carolina legislative districts are unconstitutional racial gerrymanders and need to be redrawn. This ruling… Continue reading