[Apologies if you have trouble getting through.  A link from HuffPo seems to have temporarily overwhelmed the servers.] Adam Liptak NYT:  A central provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 may be in peril, judging from tough questioning on… Continue reading

NBC News: NBC’s Pete Williams reported after the oral argument, “I think it’s a safe prediction to say that the Voting Rights Act, as it now stands, is not going to survive. The question is: how far will the… Continue reading

there will be an opening for Congress to pass some legislation, as public pressure will mount to do something in response to a Supreme Court decision.  I laid out the options for what Congress might do—one question is whether a… Continue reading

SCOTUSBLOG tweet: “Update from argument: VRA Sec 5 almost sure to be invalidated 5-4. Congress will have to reconsider the preclearance formula.”  [A bit more from Tom Goldstein here.] As Adam Liptak reminded us last night “Many predicted that… Continue reading

I am not able to attend oral arguments today in Shelby County, and thanks to the Supreme Court’s indefensible rules, there is no live streaming audio or video of the argument.  A transcript will be released later today, which I… Continue reading

Important Adam Serwer report, which also links to my 2005 LA Times oped on the Chiefs’ writings on the Voting Rights Act when he was in the Justice Dept.

The Root on Justice Thomas and the voting rights case.

Here.

“Picture the law as a pair of sweatpants.” –Justin Levitt, on the upcoming oral argument in the Shelby County VRA case.

Reuters Opinion has posted my latest commentary, the last in the symposium on the Shelby County case.  It concludes: If Section 5 really is no longer needed, that’s a judgment for Congress to make. The states covered by… Continue reading

Listen to Here & Now.

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