“2018: A Big Year for Voting Rights Restoration?”
Goldfeder and Perez for the NYLJ.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Sherrilyn Ifill: ‘Black Voters In Alabama Mattered'”
Rev. Barber on Tom Farr: “Trump’s Terrible Choice for Judge”
NYT oped:
mong President Trump’s worrisome nominees to the judiciary, perhaps none is as alarming as Thomas Alvin Farr, a protégé of Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina senator, and a product of the modern white supremacist machine that Mr.… Continue reading
Marc Alexander Reviews Ari Berman’s “Give Us the Ballot”
Here, in California Litigation.
“Black Turnout in Alabama Complicates Debate on Voting Laws”
Important NYT read:
But research, particularly of voter ID laws in Texas, Wisconsin and other states, provides an imprecise picture of how much similar laws suppress turnout. And Eitan Hersh, a Tufts University political scientist who contributed to the analysis… Continue reading
Trump DOJ Sides with Texas Again in Voter ID Case, Opposing Plaintiffs’ Motion to Lift Stay in Case
DOJ filing:
The United States opposes private plaintiffs-appellees’ motion to lift the stay pending appeal that the motions panel entered on September 5, 2017. The parties’ merits briefs and oral argument before this Court only reinforce the strong likelihood that… Continue reading
Supreme Court May Decide The First Week in January to Set Texas Redistricting Cases for Argument
Congressional docket.
State case.
Given that the Court has already issued a stay in each of these cases it is almost certain the Court will set them for argument, with a result likely this term.
This means we… Continue reading
5th Circuit in Texas Voter ID Case Asks Texas to Respond to Plaintiffs’ Stay Request by 12/28
Order via Raffi Melkonian.
Private Plaintiffs (But Not the U.S.) Ask 5th Circuit to Immediately Lift the Stay in the Texas Voter ID case
Back in September, a 5th Circuit’s motions panel, on a 2-1 vote, stayed a trial court order which would have blocked Texas from implementing its revised voter id law pending appeal.
The order specifically was not binding on the panel… Continue reading
“The Price Black Voters Paid to Defeat Roy Moore; Black voters endured waves of voter suppression to help elect Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate, and it didn’t have to be that way.”
Brentin Mock for CityLab.
“Native Americans Again Seek to Protect their Right to Vote”
Release:
On December 13, 2017, the Native American Rights Fund again brought action against the state of North Dakota seeking to overturn North Dakota’s newest discriminatory voter ID law. NARF filed an amended complaint on behalf of Native American Plaintiffs… Continue reading
“How Columbus’s Majority-Black City Council Might be Violating the Voting Rights Act”
Brentin Mock for CityLab:
But how can this method be racially discriminatory in a city like Columbus where, despite having a black population that is roughly 30 percent, the city council is majority black? Everyday People for Positive Change argues… Continue reading
“Federal appeals judges question challenge to revised Texas voter ID law”
Texas Tribune:
In Texas’ bid to keep its voter identification law intact, it was its legal foes — lawyers representing voting and civil rights groups and individual voters of color — who faced a tougher line of questioning Tuesday before… Continue reading
“Texas back in court on ‘discriminatory’ voter ID law”; 5th Circuit Panel Draw is Higginbotham, Jones, and Graves
Oral argument before the 5th Circuit Tuesday in Veasey case on the intentional discrimination question.
With Judges Edith Jones and James Graves on the panel, there is likely to be a dissent, given how each voted in the last … Continue reading