[This is one of a series of posts on issues related to the Shelby County voting rights case flagged, but not fully developed, in my draft paper, Shelby County and the Illusion of Minimalism.] One of the last major… Continue reading

The Sun-Sentinel reports.

The Dallas Morning News reports.

This item appears in the Jackson Free Press.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is having a post-Shelby hearing on July 17.  The witnesses are Representatives John Lewis and Jim Sensenbrenner. This should be very interesting.  I will be listening very carefully to what Senator Sessions and other Republican Senators… Continue reading

Over the next week or so, I plan to highlight some interesting but less obvious points about the Supreme Court’s decision in the Shelby County case. I briefly mention these points in my just-posted APSA draft, Shelby County and the … Continue reading

Back in February I organized an online symposium on what Congress should do if the Court struck section 5.  It struck section 4, not 5 (though that’s a distinction without a difference these days).  In any case, here are links… Continue reading

Sun Gazette: But Wolf, who said he was the only member of Virginia’s delegation to vote for reauthorizing the act in 1982, said the United States has changed in the intervening decades. “I don’t think there’s discrimination now in… Continue reading

Leon Friedman has written this NLJ oped.

I have posted this draft on SSRN, which I will be presenting at an APSA panel on “The Future of Voting Rights After the Shelby County Case.” Here is the abstract: Chief Justice Roberts’ majority opinion in Shelby County… Continue reading

Dallas Morning News: The Supreme Court’s twin rulings on affirmative action and voting rights show a distinct if incomplete shift on matters of race. The justices weren’t ready to fully cast aside time-worn tools used to redress simmering racial… Continue reading

At the APSA meeting in Chicago on Aug. 29 at 2 pm, the Law and Political Process study group will have the following panel: Law and Political Process Study Group Panel 1   The Future of the Voting Rights Act After… Continue reading