Kira Lerner for Think Progress:
But with more voters casting ballots from their homes, Arizona is offering fewer opportunities for people to cast ballots in person. That’s a problem for Native Americans, who say they enjoy the communal aspects of… Continue reading
With no fanfare, the mandate issued from the 5th Circuit in the Texas voter ID case yesterday, ending the appeal. As I wrote back in April, the panel issued a “fundamentally disingenuous opinion” by Judge Edith Jones, which was… Continue reading
Press release via email:
A lawsuit filed in federal court alleges that the at-large voting system of the Town of Islip violates the Voting Rights Act by systematically preventing members of Islip’s Latino community from electing candidates of their choice… Continue reading
The district court had tossed the case on standing, but the Ninth Circuit has revived the case. It has given LULAC permission to intervene in the case.
Buckle up!
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a controversial Ohio voter purge law which allows the state to begin the process of removing voters from the rolls based upon their failure to… Continue reading
This looks good:
When:
Thursday, July 12, 2018
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Where:
Room to be announced
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
1330 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
And via webinar
Registration:
This event is free and open to… Continue reading
NBC Bay Area:
A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge announced Tuesday that he believes Santa Clara’s at-large voting system violates the California Voting Rights Act and has impaired the Asian-American population from getting elected.
Santa Clara registered voters Ladonna… Continue reading
You can find the 83-page opinion at this link.
Near the end of the opinion, the court rejects treating race as party proxy argument:
Based on the totality of the circumstances, Plaintiffs have not shown that the legislature enacted H.B.… Continue reading
Details:
Judicial Gerrymandering? The Voting Rights Act, Judicial Elections, and Redistricting
May 2, 2018
01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Event Location:
ACS Webinar
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Details:
In recent weeks, the North Carolina General Assembly has proposed redrawing the map of the… Continue reading
Howard has it.
And see my earlier post on the case, which begins:
In what I consider to be a fundamentally disingenuous analysis by 5th Circuit Judge Edith Jones, a divided 5th Circuit panel has not only held that Texas’s… Continue reading
BuzzFeed:
The part of the manual addressing the Justice Department’s civil rights work was revised in March. In a section discussing enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, the new version removes previous references to redistricting and racial gerrymandering.
The previous … Continue reading