Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

“Lawmakers don’t have to testify, judge rules”

February 3, 2012, 12:31 pmelection administration, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

News from FLA: “The League of Women Voters of Florida and the National Council of La Raza had sought to take the six depositions as part of a broader legal strategy to block implementation of several controversial changes to election… Continue reading

Breaking: DOJ Poised to Moot Kinston Case Challenging Constitutionality of Voting Rights Act

February 3, 2012, 9:20 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Check out this document. I would guess that the thinking is that DOJ would rather go up to the Supreme Court on the Shelby County case record than the record in the Kinston case. I think that’s probably a… Continue reading

“How the GOP is Resegregating the South”

February 2, 2012, 12:34 pmDepartment of Justice, redistricting, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ari Berman has written this cover story for The Nation.

“U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS ANNOUNCES BRIEFING ON REDISTRICTING AND THE 2010 CENSUS: ENFORCING SECTION 5 OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT”

February 2, 2012, 9:23 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

See this press release.

“San Antonio court sets briefing schedule; orders hearings on interim maps for Feb. 15”

February 2, 2012, 8:55 amredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Texas Redistricting blog reports.

“The Future of the Voting Rights Act: Lessons from the History of School (Re-)Segregation”

February 1, 2012, 8:12 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Frances Faircloth has written this very interesting note for the Yale Law Journal. It looks at the problems with expanding bailout under the law as a means of preserving the constitutionality of section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

“Closing argument powerpoints in preclearance case”

February 1, 2012, 7:39 pmDepartment of Justice, redistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Very cool stuff from the Texas redistricting trial in DC.

3-Judge DC Court to 3-Judge Texas Court: Don’t Expect Us to Moot Texas Redistricting Case

February 1, 2012, 12:22 pmDepartment of Justice, redistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

D.C. Court signals it won’t issue ruling for at least 30 days in Texas preclearance suit, meaning it will fall to the court in San Antonio to draw interim maps (unless there is a settlement—an issue on which we haven’t… Continue reading

“Segregation Curtailed in U.S. Cities, Study Finds”

January 31, 2012, 7:50 amvoting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT: “More than 40 years after the federal government enacted fair-housing legislation and the Great Migration of blacks from the South began to ebb, residential segregation in metropolitan America has been significantly curtailed, according to a study released Monday… Continue reading

“Redistricting Update IV: Unraveling the Redistricting Tangle”

January 30, 2012, 7:52 pmDepartment of Justice, redistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Do read the Texas GOP’s official take on the status of the litigation.

“Battle over depositions continues in elections law challenge”

January 30, 2012, 7:41 pmelection administration, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

News from Florida.

Texas Redistricting Talks Reportedly Broken Down but Could be Revived

January 30, 2012, 1:30 pmredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

See here.

Question of the Day: Where is South Carolina’s Lawsuit Against DOJ?

January 30, 2012, 8:59 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

In late December, I wrote this Slate commentary in which I suggested that South Carolina might leapfrog over some of the other suits challenging the constitutionality of section 5 and get right to the Supreme Court. The urgency would be… Continue reading