“The Hypocrisy of Celebrating Selma”
Russell Berman for The Atlantic.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
Read the DOJ’s 5th Circuit Brief in the Texas Voter ID Case
“City Election Sea Change Santa Barbara to Initiate New District System This November”
News:
Although a few “i”s remain to be dotted and few “t”s to be crossed, the Santa Barbara City Council voted 6-0 to settle a lawsuit charging that the at-large elections City Hall has conducted since 1971 have yielded “racially… Continue reading
“Audio Links: Alabama Law Review Symposium on the Voting Rights Act”
Paul Horwitz:
This past Friday, the Alabama Law Review held its annual symposium. This year, the symposium marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. The speakers discussed its past, especially the civil rights activism–not… Continue reading
“Fifth Circuit Should Uphold Ruling Striking Down Texas’s Discriminatory Photo ID Law”
Brennan Center press release:
Texas’s strict photo ID law violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and was passed by the Texas Legislature with intent to discriminate, argues a brief filed todayin the Fifth Circuit Court of… Continue reading
“Texas Voters Urge Fifth Circuit to Uphold Ruling Striking Down Texas Voter Photo ID Law”
Release:
Today in Veasey v. Abbott, attorneys at the Campaign Legal Center, who serve as co-counsel for plaintiffs Congressman Marc Veasey, LULAC, and a group of Texas voters, filed a brief urging the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to… Continue reading
“50 Years of the Voting Rights Act”
Release:
Today the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies released 50 Years of the Voting Rights Act: The State of Race in Politics.
The report examines minority voter turnout, racially polarized voting, policy outcomes by race, and… Continue reading
“Does Candidate Race Impact Who Turns Out to Vote?”
AJPS:
The forthcoming article “Candidates or Districts? Reevaluating the Role of Race in Voter Turnout” byBernard L. Fraga is summarized by the author here:
The recent film “Selma” highlighted the struggle by African-Americans to win voting rights. Yet… Continue reading
“Where black voters stand 50 years after the Voting Rights Act was passed”
WaPo:
African Americans have come a long way politically over the past half-century, but disparities remain.
In the five decades since the passage of the Voting Rights Act, blacks have made significant strides in registering and turning out to vote,… Continue reading
“Proportional Voting Through the Elections Clause: Protecting Voting Rights Post-Shelby County”
Conner Johnston has written this student note for the UCLA Law Review.
“Section 2 Zero-Sums: How the Supreme Court Misconstrued the Voting Rights Act, Limits Minority Representation, and Dangerously Pits Minorities Against Each Other”
Salvador Perez has written this piece for the Stanford Law Review Online.
“Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Why We Still Need a Selma”
“Fifty Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed”
Read Ari Berman.
Then you can preorder his book, “Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.”