Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

The VRAA, as Expected, is Going Nowhere in the New Congress

January 14, 2015, 10:18 amVoting Rights Act, VRAARick Hasen

MSNBC: A top Republican has all but confirmed that Congress won’t move forward with legislation to strengthen the Voting Rights Act (VRA), which was badly weakened by the Supreme Court in 2013. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who chairs the House… Continue reading

“Supreme Court could rule on Wisconsin voter ID law”

January 9, 2015, 8:05 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Zack Roth reports for MSNBC.

“Rep. Lewis: ‘People Want To Gut The Voting Rights Act,’ ‘Take Us Back To Another Period’”

January 9, 2015, 7:27 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Video.

“Obama Administration Intervenes In Native American Voting Rights Lawsuit”

January 9, 2015, 7:23 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Think Progress reports.

“Challenge to Wisconsin Voter ID Law Heads to Supreme Court”

January 8, 2015, 12:21 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Tony Mauro reports for BLT.

“What ‘Selma’ Gets Right—and Wrong—About Civil Rights History”

January 8, 2015, 9:20 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ari Berman reflects.

“Racial Voting and Geography in the United States”

January 8, 2015, 9:15 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Very interesting new draft from Brian Amos and Michael McDonald up on SSRN: Voters express varied levels of support for the parties’ candidates depending on where they live, be it in the South (Aldrich 1995; Carmines and Stimson 1989) or… Continue reading

“Voting Rights: One Way the GOP Might Reverse What Scalise Scandal Made Worse”

January 8, 2015, 7:04 amVoting Rights Act, VRAARick Hasen

Hawkings Here (Roll Call): Whether Scalise can totally shed the taint from the incident won’t be known for several months. That will be determined in large part by potential congressional candidates and big-money donors, when they start either accepting or… Continue reading

“Erwin Chemerinsky: The importance of the Voting Rights Act”

January 7, 2015, 11:43 amSupreme Court, voting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

OC Register oped.

“Reining in the Purcell Principle”

January 5, 2015, 7:51 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have posted this draft on SSRN (for a March symposium on voting rights for the Florida State University Law Review). Here is the abstract: About a month before the 2014 election, the United States Supreme Court issued a series… Continue reading

“Who disagrees with ‘Selma’s’ portrayal of LBJ? Blacks in the civil rights era.”

January 5, 2015, 4:08 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Monkey Cage.

“The State as Witness: Windsor, Shelby County, and Judicial Distrust of the Legislative Record”

January 5, 2015, 3:11 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Bertrall Ross has posted this draft on SSRN (NYU Law Review). Here is the abstract: More than ever, the constitutionality of laws turns on judicial review of an underlying factual record, assembled by lawmakers. Some scholars have suggested that by… Continue reading