“Civil Rights Division Nominee Praised, Questioned in Senate”
BLT reports on Debo Adegbile confirmation hearing today in the Senate.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“UPDATED: Anaheim City Council Unanimously Approves Compromise Settlement With ACLU On Single-Member Council Districts”
Big news from Anaheim.
It will be interesting to see what happens if this measure fails.
“Voting Rights Under Fire?: The Value of a Vote Post-Shelby County”
“Race or Party?: How Courts Should Think About Republican Efforts to Make it Harder to Vote in North Carolina and Elsewhere”
Today the Harvard Law Review Forum has posted my new essay.
“The Constitution in 2014: Election rules”
Debo Adegbile Confirmation Hearing Wednesday
Fight Looms Over Debo Adegbile Nomination to DOJ Civil Rights Division
“With the Supreme Court’s OK, states begin imposing new laws to limit the vote”
Steven Seidenberg has written this extensive article for the ABA Journal.
“‘If I Need ID to Buy Cough Syrup, Why Shouldn’t I Need ID to Vote?’ How to respond to an ubiquitous, and misleading, question about voting rights”
“Landmark Rulings in Civil Rights Cases Define Court”
“Florida’s history of suppressing blacks’ votes”
Breaking: Pam Karlan to DOJ
Huge news from Jeffrey Toobin: “Confirmed by DOJ: Noted voting rights expert and Stanford prof Pamela Karlan to join Obama admin as Dep Asst AG for voting rights. #scotus”
MORE from Josh Gerstein.
Voting Makes List of Top Performance Challenges at DOJ in 2013
From the OIG:
The non-ideological, non-partisan enforcement of law is fundamental to the public’s trust in the Department. Yet in a recent report assessing how the enforcement priorities of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division have changed… Continue reading
“Universalism and Civil Rights (with Notes on Voting Rights after Shelby)”
Sam Bagenstos has posted this important draft on SSRN (forthcoming Yale Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
After the Supreme Court invalidated the core of the Voting Rights Act’s preclearance regime in Shelby County v. Holder, civil rights activists proposed… Continue reading