Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
SCOTUS Alabama Redistricting Roundup
How Appealing and SCOTUSBlog have extensive roundups. For my writing on the case see
this SCOTUSBlog preview
this Slate commentary
and
this SCOTUSBlog oral argument analysis.
“History gives clues to Chief Justice Roberts’ thinking on new Obamacare case”
I have written this oped for tomorrow’s Los Angeles Times. It begins:
The Supreme Court’s surprising decision last week to hear a new challenge to the Affordable Care Act has once again focused attention on Chief Justice John Roberts, who … Continue reading
“Alabama Redistricting Case Divides Supreme Court”
Marcia Coyle reports for the NLJ.
“Bloomberg Law: Voting Clash at the Supreme Court (Audio)”
Bloomberg Law: Voting Clash at the Supreme Court (Audio)
Nov 12, 2014
Richard Hasen, a professor at the University of California Irvine School of Law and a leading authority on election law, discusses oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court… Continue reading
“Justices Hear Black Lawmakers’ Challenge to Alabama Redistricting”
Adam Liptak reports for the NY Times.
“Did Alabama Violate the Voting Rights of Black Voters with New Districts?”
Emily Bazelon discusses on NPR’s Here and Now.
Read the Transcript in the Alabama Redistricting Case at SCOTUS
“Court Weighs Role of Race in Alabama Redistricting”
Mark Sherman for AP: “The outcome could come down to whether the justices think that race was the motivating factor in the state’s 2012 redistricting or that Republicans merely tried to maximize their partisan advantage.”
“Alabama minority redistricting case seems to divide Supreme Court”
Bob Barnes for WaPo: “The Supreme Court seemed divided Wednesday over and perhaps even stumped by a request that Alabama redo its state legislative redistricting plan that challengers said was drawn with too much emphasis on the race of voters.”
Derek Muller’s Take on Today’s Alabama Redistricting Case
He attended the argument and wrote up his thoughts: “Bottom line: there seemed to be more sympathy for Alabama’s position over that of the petitioners, but the Court was quite scattered at oral argument, and the opinion could be… Continue reading
“U.S. justices weigh racially charged Alabama redistricting plan”
Reuters: “The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared unsure how to resolve a challenge to a state legislature redistricting plan in Alabama that packed black voters into certain districts in a way that critics say diminishes their influence at… Continue reading
Interesting Ed Blum WSJ Oped on Alabama Redistricting Case at SCOTUS
In my Slate piece and SCOTUSBlog preview of the Alabama redistricting case the Supreme Court hears Wednesday morning, I described the interesting position conservative Justices are put in by this case: it is not clear to me how the conservatives… Continue reading