Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

Texas Defends Its Lack of Latino Appellate Judges by Claiming It is All About Party, Not Race

February 12, 2018, 7:28 pmjudicial elections, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Courthouse News Service: “Since 1945, only five of the 76 justices to serve on the Supreme Court, a mere 6.6 percent, were Latino. During the same period, 69 of those 76 justices, or 89.5 percent, were white,” LUPE said in… Continue reading

Yale Law Journal Forum symposium: Five Years After Shelby County v. Holder: The Ongoing Fight for Voting Rights

February 8, 2018, 5:25 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Can’t wait to read all of these: VOLUME 127 2017-2018 COLLECTION Five Years After Shelby County v. Holder: The Ongoing Fight for Voting Rights 08 FEB 2018 In the five years since Shelby County v. Holder, voting rights litigators… Continue reading

Watch Videos of Recent Hearings on Voting Rights in North Carolina from the USCCR

February 8, 2018, 5:04 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

It’s the most recent three posted here. See also this news story.

“Potential citizenship question in 2020 Census could shift power to rural America”

January 24, 2018, 8:00 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

WaPo: A request by the Justice Department to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census could shift the nation’s balance of political power from cities to more rural communities over the next decade and give Republicans a new advantage… Continue reading

“’Civil Right No. 1:’ Dr. King’s Unfinished Voting Rights Revolution”

January 23, 2018, 7:45 amfelon voting, political polarization, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have posted this draft on SSRN, which is forthcoming in a special symposium issue of the University of Memphis Law Review commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. (More about that symposium here.) … Continue reading

Breaking and Analysis: Three Judge Court in North Carolina Racial Gerrymandering Case Unanimously Adopts Special Master Plans for Remedying Violations; Next Stop SCOTUS?

January 19, 2018, 12:18 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

In a unanimous and expected opinion and order (92 page pdf), the three judge court in the Covington case, on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, adopted special master Nate Persily’s plan to adopt new legislative districts to… Continue reading

“Borenstein: Flawed California law creates tectonic shift in local elections”

January 18, 2018, 7:44 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Dan Borenstein column for the Mercury News: Cities and school districts across California are facing legal ultimatums: Convert from at-large elections to balloting by district, or risk spending millions of dollars on litigation. Some jurisdictions are fighting back. But most… Continue reading

“Martin Luther King’s Call to ‘Give Us the Ballot’ Is As Relevant Today as It Was in 1957”

January 15, 2018, 6:24 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Barbara Arnwine and John Nichols: To bend that arc, a new National Commission for Voter Justice has been constituted at the urging of the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr., leaders of the National Bar Association and scholars and activists from… Continue reading

“The Supreme Court takes on two redistricting cases from Texas”

January 15, 2018, 6:23 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Steven Mazie for The Economist.

Roundup of Stories on SCOTUS Decision to Hear Texas Redistricting Cases

January 15, 2018, 6:22 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Read it here.

“No, Republicans haven’t ‘always’ supported voting rights until now. This is the real story”

January 12, 2018, 1:39 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Jesse Rhodes for The Monkey Cage

Analysis: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear (Part of) Texas Redistricting Cases, But Not Partisan Gerrymandering; What Does It Mean, and What About North Carolina?

January 12, 2018, 1:13 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

As expected, the Supreme Court today agreed to hear both the state and congressional Texas redistricting cases, consolidating them, postponing a decision on jurisdiction (more on that below), and likely (but not certainly) setting them up for argument in… Continue reading

Likely Coming Friday: A Supreme Court Order to Hear the Texas Redistricting Cases

January 11, 2018, 8:35 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Tomorrow is one of the last opportunities for the Supreme Court to set cases to be argued this term, which ends in late June. Last week during its private conference the Court considered whether or not to hear the state… Continue reading

Today’s Must-Read: “For Native Americans, a ‘Historic Moment’ on the Path to Power at the Ballot Box”

January 4, 2018, 10:25 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Julie Turkewitz in the NYT: Fights over indigenous voting rights are playing out in the West and the Midwest, a trend that has the potential to tip tight races in states with large native populations, like Alaska and Arizona, and… Continue reading

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