Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

“Managers Gave to GOP Groups Accused of Racial Gerrymander Push”

August 25, 2020, 10:24 amcampaign finance, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

FundFire (subscription only): Asset management firms gave at least $1.5 million between 2010 and 2018 to Republican-affiliated groups that promoted redistricting efforts that were later struck down by federal courts for disenfranchising Black voters, according to data in a new … Continue reading

Now Available: Final Version of My Election Law Journal Article: “Three Pathologies of American Voting Rights Illuminated by the COVID-19 Pandemic, and How to Treat and Cure Them”

August 20, 2020, 8:49 pmelection administration, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can download the final version of the article here (and here’s the pdf). This article is part of a symposium out next month on COVID and the election. Thanks to ELJ’s publisher for making all the COVID-related election… Continue reading

“The Voting Rights Act Should be Amended to Apply to the Federal Government”

August 20, 2020, 1:55 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Travis Crum at Take Care.

“GOP asks Supreme Court to reinstate Arizona voting rules deemed racially biased”

August 7, 2020, 7:38 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

John Kruzel story from last week: At issue in the lawsuit are a pair of Arizona voting restrictions that were struck down earlier this year by the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which sparked the GOP petition to… Continue reading

“The Voting Rights Act Turns 55 Today. It’s Still Fiercely Contested In North Carolina.”

August 6, 2020, 7:39 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

WFAE reports.

“The Supreme Court’s Pro-Partisanship Turn”

July 27, 2020, 7:29 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Georgetown Law Journal Online has published the final version of my article, The Supreme Court’s Pro-Partisanship Turn. Here is the abstract: The United States Supreme Court’s conservative majority has taken the Court’s election jurisprudence on a pro-partisanship turn, which… Continue reading

“Trump lied to the Supreme Court. His new census order proves it.”

July 22, 2020, 2:17 pmcensus litigation, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

New Leah Litman: Beyond that rather glaring defect, however, the new executive order also confirms the theory behind the lawsuits challenging the administration’s earlier attempt to add a citizenship question to the census. When the administration attempted to do that,… Continue reading

In Worrisome Decision, 11th Circuit Panel on 2-1 Vote Rejects Challenge to Alabama Voter Identification Law Without Allowing a Trial

July 22, 2020, 10:51 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can find the opinion in Greater Birmingham Industries v. Alabama at this link. This opinion is very troubling because the majority held it was appropriate to grant summary judgment to the state of Alabama despite evidence that at… Continue reading

“Honor John Lewis with a Senate vote on the voting rights he fought for his whole life”

July 20, 2020, 12:20 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Kristen Clarke oped for USA Today.

“Do Not Call John Lewis a ‘Hero’ if You Stood in His Way Republicans like Mitch McConnell and Brian Kemp are the reason the civil rights icon had to keep fighting until his dying breath.”

July 19, 2020, 8:00 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Joel Anderson for Slate.

“John Lewis’ Legacy Is the Right to Vote. And It’s Under Attack. A bill to restore the Voting Rights Act he championed has been sitting on Mitch McConnell’s desk for 225 days.”

July 18, 2020, 5:23 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ari Berman: On March 1, as he was battling stage 4 cancer, John Lewis returned to Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march, when he was brutally beaten marching for voting rights. “We… Continue reading

“Why it’s time for every state to enact its own voting rights law”

July 16, 2020, 7:45 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ruth Greenwood and Roxana Norouzi in The Fulcrum. MORE in this CLC report.

Breaking: California State Appeals Court Sides with City of Santa Monica in Reversing in California Voting Rights Act Case, With Potentially Big Implications

July 9, 2020, 5:41 pmCVRA, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Back in February 2019, as noted on this blog, a California trial court held that the City of Santa Monica violated both the California Voting Rights Act and the California Constitution by continuing to use at large elections for its… Continue reading

“Court Blocks Montana Law That Restricts Voting Rights of Native Americans”

July 7, 2020, 4:27 pmcourt decisions, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Release: A Montana court has blocked a state law that severely restricts the right to vote for Native Americans.The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Montana, and Native American Rights Fund successfully sought the preliminary injunction halting the so-called… Continue reading