“Florida Accused of Racial Gerrymander”
Another Democratic Shaw lawsuit. Very interesting.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“The Court’s Contempt for Congress”
This Jeff Shesol piece in the New Yorker discusses Shelby County, Citizens United, and the question of Court-Congress relations.
Revised Draft of My “Race or Party?” Paper Now Posted
Via SSRN, you can now download a revised draft of my paper, Race or Party? How Courts Should Think About Republican Efforts to Make it Harder to Vote in North Carolina and Elsewhere.
The final version should post on the… Continue reading
More on Palmdale
The City of Palmdale’s expert, Doug Johnson, posted some comments to the EL Listserv in response to the earlier David Ely comments posted on this blog. He has agreed to let me repost them here:
As one might imagine from… Continue reading
“Unteachable: Shelby County, Canonical Apostasies, and Ways Forward for the Voting Rights Act”
Kareem Crayton and Terry Smith have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
In this paper, we analyze the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, which declared unconstitutional the coverage formula for Section 5 preclearance.… Continue reading
More on Palmdale
Plaintiffs’ expert in the Palmdale case (see earlier post), David Ely, sends along these thoughts via email:
1. Judge did not say that incumbency can never be a consideration, he said that it cannot be used to justify… Continue reading
“Latinos Want Gov’t to Look Into LA County Voting”
Important AP story: “The Obama administration is aggressively pursuing lawsuits over minority voting rights in Texas and North Carolina, but the Justice Department has not moved on evidence that the latest round of redistricting in Los Angeles County unfairly… Continue reading
In Fascinating Case, Judge Orders New Elections in Palmdale under CA Voting Rights Act
A Los Angeles County superior court judge has issued this tentative remedial order (following this ruling on the merits) that the City of Palmdale’s at large elections violate the California Voting Rights Act. I am about to talk… Continue reading
NYT Ed Board Looks Forward to Judge Posner’s Potential Review of Wisconsin Voter ID Law
“Racially polarized voting in ballot measure going to winner-take-all in Pasadena, Texa”
Pretty dramatic data on Anglo v. Hispanic support for controversial measure:
Table 1. Percent vote cast for City of Pasadena Proposition 1 by percent of voting age population Anglo and Hispanic
“Campaign Legal Center files brief in Texas voter photo ID case on behalf of minority voters”
“Court rejects State of Texas’ request to move voter ID trial to March 2015”
Michael Li has the details and the scheduling order.
“Georgia GOP dusts off Jim Crow tactic: Changing election date”
Zack Roth reports for MSNBC.
“GOPer amps up voting rights reform push”
The Hill:
The powerful House Republican said this week that he’s preparing to throw his full weight behind the effort to reinstall the voting protections shot down by the Supreme Court in June.
Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr., former head of… Continue reading