Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court Denies Cert. in North Carolina Voting Case; Chief Justice Issues Statement

May 15, 2017, 6:34 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Today the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a Fourth Circuit decision holding that a North Carolina voting law (one I’ve called the strictest set of voting rules rolled into one law passed since at least the passage… Continue reading

“The Voting Rights Act May Be Coming Back From the Dead”

May 8, 2017, 8:11 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Pema Levy for Mother Jones.

Pasadena, TX: “Latinos in heavily segregated city see limited success in pivotal Texas election”

May 7, 2017, 11:49 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Guardian: Pasadena was one of the first places in the country to be placed back under federal supervision after that 2013 ruling. So Saturday’s mayoral and city council elections were keenly watched by civil rights advocates. Those hoping Pasadena… Continue reading

What To Look for When the Supreme Court Decides the North Carolina Redistricting Case

May 5, 2017, 11:57 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRichard Pildes

The Court has already decided one major racial redistricting case this Term, Bethune-Hill, from Virginia. The other major racial redistricting case, Cooper v. Harris, from North Carolina, is now one of three cases outstanding the longest since argument. Cooper involves… Continue reading

Today’s Must-Read: ProPublica’s Jessica Huseman on Texas Voter ID Law, and Its Flawed Implementation

May 2, 2017, 8:19 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Spoiler alert: Texas does not look good.

“Voting Rights on Trial on the Bayou”

April 29, 2017, 12:03 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Atlantic: In the half-century since the parish moved to an at-large system, only one black judge, Juan Pickett, has ever been elected to the 32nd District Court. That he ran unopposed has been taken by state officials as proof… Continue reading

“Ahead of 2018, trial likely looms in Texas political map battle”

April 27, 2017, 9:42 pmredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: As the 2018 election cycle nears, it appears Texas and its legal foes are headed for a trial — yet again — over what the state’s House and congressional boundaries will look like, and it will likely come… Continue reading

“Recent rulings that Texas’ voting laws discriminate put pressure on the state, but the road ahead is long”

April 26, 2017, 8:56 pmredistricting, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Dallas Morning News reports.

“Lawsuit: 2015 Redistricting Violated Black Voters’ Rights”

April 24, 2017, 1:34 pmredistricting, voting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

AP: Georgia lawmakers violated federal voting rights law by moving black voters out and white voters in to two state House districts in 2015, according to a lawsuit filed Monday that calls the mid-decade redistricting an effort to protect white… Continue reading

“Court: Texas House map intentionally diluted minority votes”

April 21, 2017, 7:44 amredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Texas Tribune reports.

Breaking: Divided District Court Finds Texas Engaged in Intentional Race Discrimination in Drawing TX House Districts

April 20, 2017, 12:44 pmredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The same three-judge court that recently held that Texas’s congressional redistricting violated the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act in drawing some districts has now issued this new decision and these findings of fact in relation to the challenge… Continue reading

“The Entirely Preventable Battles Raging Over Voting Rights”

April 14, 2017, 9:21 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Matt Ford for The Atlantic: Four years later, a series of lawsuits and legal challenges in states formerly covered by preclearance suggest the country perhaps hasn’t changed as much as Roberts thought. Had the provision, Section 4(b), remained intact, it… Continue reading

“It’s time for the Justice Department to disown Texas’s discriminatory voting law”

April 14, 2017, 9:07 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

WaPo editorial.

Must-Read Lyle Denniston on the Coming Fight over Voting Rights Act Bail-in in Texas

April 13, 2017, 8:47 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Lyle: Earlier this year, however, a federal trial judge in Houston, District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal, became the first since the demise of Section 5 pre-clearance to impose Section 3 pre-clearance as a remedy for a discriminatory voting practice. That… Continue reading