Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“After 50 Years, the Voting Rights Act’s Biggest Threat: The Supreme Court”
Extensive Shelby County preview from Andrew Cohen.
“How The Voting Rights Act, Now In Danger, Came To Pass And Shaped History”
“New York Should Hate the Voting Rights Act; Why the city is taking a principled stand to defend it.”
Daniel Brook has written this piece for Slate.
“The Lawfulness of Section 5 — and Thus of Section 5”
Akhil Amar has written this VRA piece for the Harvard Law Review Forum.
“The partisan politics of election laws”
Guy Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer have written this piece for the Reuters symposium on Shelby County. A snippet: “the Voting Rights Act must be amended in two ways. First, the statute would prohibit any voting qualification, proposed or applied by… Continue reading
“Advocates Warn Of Dire Consequences If Voting Rights Act Loses In Supreme Court”
“Photo ID voting mandate passes in Virginia, heads to governor”
AP reports. “General Assembly Republicans muscled the most far-reaching of their polling place identification and voter vetting bills to final passage Wednesday with almost party-line House votes on Wednesday over the outcries of Democrats who likened the measures to… Continue reading
Linda Greenhouse on Shelby County
Her provocative piece ends: “Back to the puzzle I began with: how can it be that the Voting Rights Act is in such peril? The trouble isn’t really that I don’t know the answer. It’s that I’m afraid I do.”
“To The Point” Discusses Voting Rights, Campaign Finance Cases Before Supreme Court
More Shelby County Previews
David Savage Shelby County Preview
Here, in the LA Times.
“How should the San Antonio court proceed after SCOTUS rules on Section 5?”
Adam Liptak Preview of Shelby County Voting Rights Case
Front-page NYT.
Oral argument at the Supreme Court is February 27 with an opinion expected by the end of the Court’s term in June.
And check out the symposium I’ve organized over at Reuters Opinion on What Happens if … Continue reading