Dallas Morning News: “Unless Garcia can dramatically increase turnout among his Hispanic base, Veasey is poised to become the second black Democrat to represent North Texas in Congress and the first minority ever elected to Capitol Hill from Fort… Continue reading
Now that Texas has held its primaries (or at least the first round) using the interim San Antonio-court created districts, will the Washington D.C. three-judge court issue its decision on the merits of the section 5 preclearance case?
Important AP report:“One is a black real estate agent and the other a white millionaire. For two new districts created to reflect Texas’ soaring Hispanic population, they might be the representatives elected to Congress. That’s not exactly what Hispanic… Continue reading
Santa Clarita Valley Signal: “Kevin Shenkman, a Columbia-educated attorney based in Malibu, intends to prosecute a lawsuit against the city of Palmdale under the California Voting Rights Act to force the city to overturn Palmdale’s at-large system of electing… Continue reading
Austin American Statesman: “In an effort to move to trial more quickly, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has quietly dropped his opposition to the Department of Justice’s request to take depositions from state lawmakers in the voter identification case.”
Here: “The dueling opinions in the Shelby County ruling may well be indicators of how the Justices on the Supreme Court might end up splitting when they take a new look at the 1965 law.”
Jeff Toobin: “In light of that record, the odds are that the Court will reach the same kind of conclusion with regard to the Voting Rights Act and declare Section 5 unconstitutional. At that point, the white-controlled legislatures of the… Continue reading