Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
Constitutional Accountability Center Files Amicus Brief in Shelby County Voting Rights Appeal
Read it here.
“Elmendorf: Making Sense of Section 2 – Part 4 (Judicial Lawmaking Authority and Stare Decisis)”
Here is Chris Elmendorf’s latest guest blog post:
In my last two posts, I argued that constitutional doubts about Section 2 could be resolved by conditioning liability on a showing that the plaintiffs’ injury resulted from race-biased decisionmaking by… Continue reading
“Lawsuit says new Detroit districts hurt minorities”
AP reports.
Will Today Be the Day…
SCOTUS decides on Texas’s request for a stay in the redistricting cases?
Elmendorf: Making Sense of Section 2 – Part 3 (The Electorate as State Actor)
Here’ Chris Elmendorf’s latest guest post:
In yesterday’s post, I argued that constitutional doubts about Section 2’s results test would be put to rest if plaintiffs were required to show that their injury resulted from race-biased (prejudiced or… Continue reading
Elemendorf: Making Sense of Section 2 – Part 2 (Injury and Proof)
Here’s Chris Elmendorf’s second guest post on his forthcoming piece:
Enacted by Congress in 1982, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) bans electoral structures “which result[]” in members of a class of citizens defined by race or color… Continue reading
Read Texas’s Reply in Congressional Stay Request; SCOTUS Decision Coming Any Time
Here.
Read the Oppositions to Texas Congressional Redistricting Stay Request
Elemendorf: Making Sense of Section 2: Part I
Here is Chris Elmendorf’s first guest blog post:
Rick Hasen has kindly invited me to guest-blog this week about my forthcoming article, Making Sense of Section 2: Of Biased Votes, Unconstitutional Elections, and Common Law Statutes, 160 U. Pa. L. … Continue reading
“Supreme Court weighs GOP appeal over Texas election map”
The LA Times reports.
“Voting Rights and Texas”
NYT editorializes.
“What’s at Stake in the Texas Election Cases?”
Lyle Denniston blogs on the pending stay requests in the Texas redistricting cases before Justice Scalia at the Supreme Court.
Federal Court Reviewing Texas Redistricting, Over Harsh Dissent, Issues Supplemental Opinion Explaining Its Maps
You can read the opinion here. A snippet:
Despite rhetoric of a “runaway plan,” the Court’s plan gave as much consideration to the State’s enacted map as possible without rubberstamping the districts that were the subject of legal challenges;… Continue reading