“A Moveable Court”
Pam Karlan in Boston Review on DOMA and the VRA.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Officials: Voting rights legislation would have trouble passing Congress”
Gazette.net: “Despite the Montgomery County Council’s support for a resolution asking Congress to reinstate part of a federal regulation meant to protect voting rights for more Americans, such a measure would have a hard time passing into law, according to… Continue reading
“After ‘Shelby County’ Ruling, Are Voting Rights Endangered?”
Jerry Goldfeder and Myrna Perez write for the NY Law Journal.
“Texas Voter ID Violates Voting Rights Act and the Constitution, Groups Challenge Law in Federal Court”
Brennan Center: “Today, the Texas State Conference of the NAACP and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus of the Texas House of Representatives (MALC) filed suit in federal court to block the state’s new voter ID law because it erects… Continue reading
“Plaintiffs propose trial schedule in Texas redistricting case”
“Voting Rights Act leading California cities to dump at-large elections”
LA Times reports.
This is the California Voting Rights Act, not the federal one.
“New Litigation Summary from CLC Describes Continuing Flood of Challenges to Campaign Finance Laws & Growing List of Voting Rights Cases”
Had My Election Law Students Take the 1963 Louisiana Literacy Test in Class Today
Nice introduction to teaching the Voting Rights Act. [Links]
“Take the Impossible ‘Literacy’ Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s”
I missed this great Slate exercise over the summer.
“Texas: Split Ruling Over Political Maps”
The AP reports: “A federal court said Friday that it would not delay Texas’ primary elections and ordered the state to temporarily use political maps drawn by the Legislature while the judges sort out a complex lawsuit.” The court… Continue reading
Mississippi Democratic Party Asks DOJ to Observe Hattiesburg Mayoral Election
The AP reports here.
Online Discussion of the March @ 50: Voting Rights
You can now view last night’s “Google Hangout” discussion of the March @ 50’s voting rights segment on PBS. The discussion features Myrna Perez, Janai Nelson, and me, moderated by March @ 50 Director Shukree Tilghman.
The March @50: Episode 2: Voting Rights
“Eric Holder’s Suit Against Texas Gives the Supreme Court a Chance to Gut Even More of the Voting Rights Act”
Jeffrey Rosen has written this piece in the New Republic.
But it has a really odd lede, suggesting that section 2 of the Voting Rights Act requires proof of intentional discrimination. (“As Molly Redden has reported, the lawsuits face… Continue reading