New Voting Laws Face Court Challenges Across the U.S.
WSJ reports on the recent explosion of election-related litigation but also the challenges lawsuits have in light of new rulings like Brnovich.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
Good morning. Georgia on my mind.
Thanks, Dan, we so miss you at Ohio State, but are glad to reconnect whenever there’s an opportunity. Thanks, Rick, for this opportunity to join the ELB blogging team.
As I start, the Senate Rules Committee hearing today is top… Continue reading
“Postponed Weddings, Stockpiled Insulin and Covid: The Bizarre Life of Texas Democrats in Exile”
Politico Magazine:
[O]ver 50 state House Democrats … fled Texas on Monday to deny Republicans a quorum for a major new elections bill that has stirred backlash: axing pandemic-era practices to expand voting access adopted in a large Democratic-leaning… Continue reading
“Democrats are making headlines on voting rights, but little more to counter restrictive efforts by Republicans”
Dan Balz: “[U]ntil Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) agree to change the filibuster rules, Democrats are stuck, and the president’s rhetoric is mostly that, a call to action without the prospect of immediate action”
Senate Rules Committee Hearing on Voting Rights in Georgia
The U.S. Senate Rules Committee will hold a field hearing in Atlanta tomorrow, on Protecting the Freedom to Vote: Recent changes to Georgia voting laws and the need for basic federal standards to make sure all Americans can vote in … Continue reading
“How The Roberts Court Laid The Groundwork For 2021’s All-Out Assault On Voting Rights”
In TPM, an excerpt from Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner’s new book Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court. Here’s the last paragraph of the excerpt:
In 1989, in a dissenting opinion, Justice Blackmun made an observation that has… Continue reading
“From Qualified Immunity to Voting Rights, the Supreme Court Guts Civil Rights Laws”
David Gans: “the Supreme Court has decimated landmark federal civil rights legislation designed to protect constitutional rights, end racial injustices, and check state abuse of power.”
“Manchin Says No Filibuster Exception for Voting Rights Bill:
Bloomberg: “Senator Joe Manchin said he wouldn’t carve out an exemption to the chamber’s filibuster rule for voting rights legislation, effectively dashing chances that Democrats could maneuver around Republican opposition to overhauling the nation’s elections laws.”
A Historical Perspective on the Current Voting Rights Battles
From Jamelle Bouie:
For as much as Jim Crow dominates our collective memory of voting restrictions, it is the attack on suffrage in the North in [the] last decades of the 19th century that might actually be more relevant… Continue reading
Today’s Hearing on the Implications of Brnovich
Here are the witness list, written testimony, and video link for the hearing before the house House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties at 1:00 ET. Scheduled to testify:
Mr. Sean Morales-DoyleActing Director, Voting Rights… Continue reading
“Texas Democrats find voting rights are a tough sell as Capitol Hill turns its focus to Biden’s economic agenda”
WaPo reports: “Texas state legislators … arrived in Washington just as the congressional Democrats they are trying to prod into action on voting legislation have turned their full attention toward a trillion-dollar infrastructure deal and a potentially historic $3.5 … Continue reading
Senator Mike Lee Demanded That Sen. Padilla and I Apologize for Saying Justice Alito’s Brnovich Decision Goes Against Textualism and Is Not Faithful to the Voting Rights Act; I Doubled Down on the Claim
This all happened at Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing on voting rights after Brnovich and Shelby County.
You can watch Senator Padilla ask me the initial question in the video at the 2:56:42 mark.
Senator Lee’s rant, where he… Continue reading
“On Voting Rights, Justice Alito Is Stuck in the 1980s”
Linda Greenhouse on Brnovich:
Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion for the six-justice majority insisted that the law should pay little mind to the occasional “inconvenience” of casting a ballot. Justice Elena Kagan’s dissenting opinion, joined by two other justices, accused… Continue reading
“Biden must embrace his own logic on voting rights”
E.J. Dionne:
Biden’s speech assailing “merchants of fear and peddlers of lies” was refreshingly candid about the threats posed to democracy. They include the violent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Donald Trump’s scandalous falsehoods about the 2020… Continue reading