“The Court’s Slight Rewrite in the Voting Rights Case”
Tony Mauro on the addition of the 14th Amendment to Shelby County.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Roberts’ Iffy Support for Voting Rights:” Revisiting My 2005 LA TImes Oped
In light of the Supreme Court’s decision to consider the constitutionality of section 5 of the Voting Rights Act this term, I thought it might be useful to reproduce my August 3, 2005 Los Angeles Times oped, which for some… Continue reading
“The Trouble with City of Boerne, and Why It Matters for the Fifteenth Amendment As Well”
Evan Tsen Lee has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The Supreme Court’s test for the constitutionality of state action and its test for the constitutionality of congressional legislation enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment are out of synch… Continue reading
SCOTUS Nixes Nix
Not a big surprise: the Supreme Court, after agreeing to hear the Shelby County case last week raising the question of the Voting Rights Act section 5’s continuing constitutionality, denied cert. today in Nix v. Holder, raising similar issues. There… Continue reading
“Arizona Still Counting Ballots Nearly a Week After Election”
TPM reports, and mentions problems with minority voters, the voter id requirement, and provisional ballots.
“Why We Still Need Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act”
Ari Berman writes for The Nation.
“Reimagining Democratic Inclusion: Asian Americans and the Voting Rights Act”
Ming Hsu Chen and Taeku Lee have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming UC Irvine Law Review). Here is the abstract:
The current legal framework for protecting voting rights in the United States has been dramatically destabilized by Supreme Court… Continue reading
“Supreme Court Review Puts Voting Rights Act In Jeopardy After Election Proves Its Necessity”
Doug Kendall writes for the Constituional Accountability Center.
What Will DC Court Do in Texas Voter ID Case?
Texas has now filed its reply brief in the DC Court, reaching the question whether section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional as exceeding congressional power. The issue is now before the Supreme Court in the Shelby County… Continue reading
What About Section 2?
Franita Tolson of FSU has written this guest post: [now updated]
What about Section 2?
On Friday, the Supreme Court granted cert in Shelby County, giving most voting rights advocates and law professors heart palpitations in the process (even though… Continue reading
More Stories on Shelby County VRA Cert Grant
VRA SCOTUS Grant Early Roundup
Howard’s got it.
Breaking News: Supreme Court To Consider Constitutional Challenge to Voting Rights Act; Reading Between the Lines in The Cert Grant
[with apologies for the delay in posting as the Election Law Blog server was down.]
The Supreme Court’s order today (coming, probably not coincidentally right after, rather than right before the election), was hardly unexpected. We’ve all been expecting the… Continue reading
“Alaska Native Voters Defend the Constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act”
See this press release.