“Court Prepares To Write New Chapters In Civil Rights History”
Liz Halloran reports for NPR.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
To All Those Proclaiming a “Post-Racial America” in the Voting Rights and Affirmative Action Cases Pending at SCOTUS
Hey, What’s the Latest in that Texas Redistricting Case?
“GOP lawmakers poised to quickly OK legislative, congressional maps”
The Dallas Morning News reports. Pretty sure this would moot the section 5 case before the Supreme Court, although it is possible the section 2 case could go on, and I imagine there would be a new section 5… Continue reading
Section 2 Success in Georgia
Here is an opinion in favor of the plaintiffs in their challenge to at-large elections in Fayette Co., GA.
“High Turnout Rates Are Cause to Celebrate, Not Gut, the Voting Rights Act”
David Gans:
Sometime before the end of June, the Supreme Court will decide Shelby County v. Holder, a constitutional challenge to the preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act, one of the Act’s most important guarantees against racial discrimination… Continue reading
Texas Redistricting Court Sets Hearing to Consider Next Steps in Case
Read the order here. Much depends upon whether Section 5 remains valid once the Supreme Court decides the Shelby County case.
“Voting Rights Institute to Train New Generation of Voting Rights Lawyers”
Wish I could be in D.C. for this:
The Campaign Legal Center and American University’s Washington College of Law will jointly launch a new Voting Rights Law Institute this summer to help train the next generation voting rights litigators. … Continue reading
“The Good News About Race and Voting”
Andrew Kohut in WSJ:
In the next several weeks the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the requirement that several states, mostly in the South, get “pre-clearance” from the Justice Department before they make any changes… Continue reading
Supreme Court Summarily Affirms in Mississippi Redistricting Case
Here is the order list and here’s the background from Justin Levitt’s All About Redistricting site.
“Section 5 as Simulacrum”
Justin Levitt has posted this draft on SSRN (Yale Law Journal Online). Here is the abstract:
In addition to its remarkable substantive impact, Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is a provision of enormous expressive and historical importance. But… Continue reading
Goldfeder and Perez on Two Pending SCOTUS Voting Cases
Here.
“The Dignity of the South”
Joey Fishkin has posted this draft on SSRN (Yale L.J. Online). Here is the abstract:
The plaintiffs in Shelby County v. Holder argue that section 5 of the Voting Rights Act should be struck down because it offends the “equal… Continue reading
Gans Responds to Clegg on African-American Voter Turnout and the Shelby County Case
Here.