“Chief Justice Roberts Was Right: How To Fix The Voting Rights Act”
Amel Ahmed writes for TPM Cafe.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
NAACP LDF Suit in Louisiana Seeks Voting Rights Act Bail-In
Press release:
LDF and cooperating Louisiana attorney, Ronald L. Wilson, filed a challenge under the Voting Rights Act and the U. S. Constitution to Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana’s 32nd Judicial District Court. A Black candidate has never been elected as… Continue reading
“Responding to Shelby County: A Grand Election Bargain”
Dan Tokaji has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Harvard Law & Policy Review). Here is the abstract:
The immediate reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder was predictably fast, furious, and fissured. Some lauded the… Continue reading
DOJ Web Page on Section 5 Does Not Acknowledge Shelby County and End of Preclearance Regime
At some point About Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act should probably be updated. After all, Shelby County was in June 2013.
“Tuesday primary marks 2 years since only use of controversial voter ID law”
The latest from Wisconsin.
“Voting-Rights Bill’s Backers Say There’s No Doubt It Will Pass”
National Journal reports.
I would wager that it does not pass this year, despite the optimistic statements from the bill’s supporters.
“Voter ID cases could let John Roberts destroy Voting Rights Act”
Quote of the Day: Federal Government as Gestapo Edition
“It’s like a boot’s been lifted off the back of our neck.”
—Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, speaking of what it has been like since Voting Rights Acr preclearance disappeared after the Supreme Court’s Shelby County decision.
“North Carolina voting law targets black voters: Study”
Adam Serwer reports for MSNBC.
Question of the Night? Voting Rights Act Edition
How can Eric Cantor come out in favor of the VRAA with the Wall Street Journal opinion page coming out so strongly against it?
Without Cantor’s backing it is hard to see how it has any chance making it out… Continue reading
“The ‘Voting Rights’ Partisan Power Play”
Mike Carvin and Hans von Spakovsky WSJ oped: “In reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Shelby County v. Holder decision last June, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R., Wis.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) have introduced the Voting Rights Amendment… Continue reading
“Holder v. Roberts: The Attorney General Makes Voting Rights the Test Case of His Tenure”
Jeffrey Toobin writes for The New Yorker. The full extensive piece is behind the paywall. Toobin’s take is similar to mine about the North Carolina and Texas cases (which Holder predicts the U.S. will win):
RNLA Praises One Aspect of Bauer-Ginsberg Report, While Bashing “the Radical Left and Many in the Democrat Party”
NPR Story Suggests Macon Ga. Move of Election Day to Summer Not Challenged Because of Cost
I’m skeptical it is (just) cost. The tougher standard of winning a Voting Rights Act lawsuit under section 2 has a lot to do with it.