Federal District Court Orders Further Relief to Get Spanish Language Materials into the Hands of Voters in 32 Florida Counties
Court order. (Dated May 10.)
There’s a rulemaking in progress for new rules in time for 2020.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
Today’s Must-Read: Jessica Huseman of ProPublica Went with Secretaries of State on Civil Rights Tour, and They Have Very Different Views About How Far We Have Come on Voting Rights and Racial Justice
“In long-winding case, court considers federal oversight of Texas redistricting”
Alexa Ura for the Texas Tribune:
Back in the federal courthouse where most of an eight year-long case has played out, the fight over forcing Texas back under federal oversight of its mapmaking appeared to hinge on whether the state… Continue reading
E.J. Dionne: “Will Trump and the Supreme Court tear our democracy apart?”
WaPo column:
Our nation faces a constitutional conflagration, and President Trump is not the only actor willing to put personal and partisan interests above the preservation of our system of self-rule.Five conservative justices on the Supreme Court signaled clearly… Continue reading
“NC, SC would have to OK election law changes with feds under updated Voting Rights Act”
News & Observer:
North Carolina and South Carolina would face federal oversight of election law changes if a new Democratic bill to update the Voting Rights Act passes — and the U.S. House of Representatives held a field hearing… Continue reading
“Arkansas GOP moves to keep progressive measures off the ballot—but not conservative ones”
Daily Kos:
Angry that voters passed a ballot initiative to increase the minimum wage in 2018, Arkansas Republicans are using their legislative majorities to put a constitutional amendment on the 2020 ballot that would make it vastly harder for… Continue reading
Florida: “DeSantis wants Secretary of State to ensure access to Spanish-language ballots”
The Tampa Bay Times reports.
“5th Circuit judge raises eyebrows with ‘majority-minority panel’ reference in gerrymandering case”
ABA Journal:
A dissent by Circuit Judge Edith Brown Clement in a Mississippi gerrymandering case is raising some questions and eyebrows. What, exactly, did the federal appeals judge mean when she wrote that the state defendants “have simply had the… Continue reading
“Supreme Court considers a racial gerrymandering challenge in Virginia”
Steve Mazie for the Economist.
“Victory in Mississippi: Federal Appeals Court Rules State Must Redraw State Senate District Voting Lines”; Copy of 5th Circuit Order
Release from the Laywers’ Committee via email:
Last night, a federal appeals court ordered Mississippi officials to redraw district lines for a state senate district in the Mississippi Delta, leaving undisturbed the finding by federal district judge Carlton Reeves that… Continue reading
“Argument preview: Virginia racial gerrymandering case returns to Supreme Court”
Very readable Amy Howe preview at SCOTUSBlog of Bethune Hill II.
Shenkman’s Next California Voting Rights Act Challenge: City of Orange At-Large Elections
Voice of OC:
“The imposition of at-large elections by the City of Orange has resulted in vote dilution for the Latino residents and has denied them effective political participation in elections to the five-member Orange City Council,” reads the… Continue reading
House Oversight Requests Documents re 2018 Georgia Elections
The House Oversight Committee asked
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp today for a set of documents related to voters’
difficulties in Georgia in 2018. So far,
it’s just a request. And Kemp appears
unimpressed.
“Hillary Clinton’s claims about voter suppression in Georgia and Wisconsin”
WaPo’s
FactChecker reviews some of Hillary Clinton’s claims about the 2016
election at the Selma Bloody Sunday commemorative service for this past weekend.