“Too Much for Toobin: Does Jeffrey Toobin Understand the Voting Rights Act?”
Derek Muller blogs at Prawfsblawg (via Jason Mazzone, who—in my admittedly biased view—takes an undeserved swipe at Slate‘s Supreme Court coverage).
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“LDF Files Brief in Supreme Court, Mounting Vigorous Defense of the Voting Rights Act’s Constitutionality”
Press release and brief.
“Facts And Myths About The Supreme Court Challenge To The Voting Rights Act”
This item appears at Media Matters.
“GOP v. Voting Rights Act”
William Yeomans writes for Reuters Opinion: “Put bluntly, if the court’s Republican majority strikes down this recently reauthorized, core provision of the Voting Rights Act – the most effective and revered of all civil rights statutes — the backlash will… Continue reading
“Virginia Redistricting Plan ‘Shameful,’ Says State Sen. Henry Marsh”
HuffPo: “If Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) signs off on the changes, the feds could look at whether the Republicans’ decision to schedule the vote in Marsh’s absence demonstrates the redistricting plan was racially motivated. McDonnell told reporters on Tuesday… Continue reading
“THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS, MINORITY VOTING RIGHTS, AND THE U.S. SUPREME COURT”
The Law and Politics Book Review offers this review.
“Full hearing on Texas redistricting appeal now not likely this term”
Texas Redistricting: “…many observers have speculated that the high court has deferred deciding what to do with the Texas case until it decides in Shelby Co. v. Holder whether section 5 of the Voting Rights Act remains constitutional….While waiting… Continue reading
“The Supreme Court and Racial Equality: Guest Post by Eric Segall”
Here, at Dorf on Law.
“Black conservatives launch effort to scrap part of Voting Rights Act”
Doonesbury Addresses Voting Rights Act/Voter Suppression Claims
“The Gaping Hole in the Conservative Case Against the Voting Rights Act”
“Faulkner’s Voting Rights Act: The Sound and Fury of Section Five”
Joel Heller has posted this draft on SSRN (Hofstra Law Review). Here is the abstract:
In its most recent examination of the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court told a story about the South. Although the Court ultimately did not… Continue reading
Another View of the Section 5 Voting Rights Case
A longtime reader of the blog writes of my “What’s Lost If the Voting Rights Falls” piece at Slate:
I assume you don’t write the headlines, but can we dispense with the “strike down the Voting Rights Act” phraseology [Google… Continue reading
“What’s Lost if the Voting Rights Act Falls? Minority voters will lose a key bargaining chip”
I’ve written this Jurisprudence essay for Slate. It begins:
Odds are, the Supreme Court will strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act after hearing a case from Alabama that will be argued next month. If the… Continue reading