Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Lawsuit: 2015 Redistricting Violated Black Voters’ Rights”
AP:
Georgia lawmakers violated federal voting rights law by moving black voters out and white voters in to two state House districts in 2015, according to a lawsuit filed Monday that calls the mid-decade redistricting an effort to protect white… Continue reading
“Court: Texas House map intentionally diluted minority votes”
Breaking: Divided District Court Finds Texas Engaged in Intentional Race Discrimination in Drawing TX House Districts
The same three-judge court that recently held that Texas’s congressional redistricting violated the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act in drawing some districts has now issued this new decision and these findings of fact in relation to the challenge… Continue reading
“The Entirely Preventable Battles Raging Over Voting Rights”
Matt Ford for The Atlantic:
Four years later, a series of lawsuits and legal challenges in states formerly covered by preclearance suggest the country perhaps hasn’t changed as much as Roberts thought. Had the provision, Section 4(b), remained intact, it… Continue reading
“It’s time for the Justice Department to disown Texas’s discriminatory voting law”
Must-Read Lyle Denniston on the Coming Fight over Voting Rights Act Bail-in in Texas
Lyle:
Earlier this year, however, a federal trial judge in Houston, District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal, became the first since the demise of Section 5 pre-clearance to impose Section 3 pre-clearance as a remedy for a discriminatory voting practice. That… Continue reading
“Gorsuch Arrives At The Supreme Court At A Crucial Moment For Voting Rights”
TPM:
Less then a week into the job, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will have his first chance, behind closed doors at least, to weigh in on voting rights.
When the justices meet Friday for their private conference, the first… Continue reading
TX: “Analysis: A law that lets political majorities cheat — and win”
Ross Ramsey for the Texas Tribune:
The state seems to be doing everything in its power to prove that it cannot be trusted with voting rights.
“District Court Holds that Texas Discriminated Against Minority Voters, Again”
“Santa Clara is latest in string of cities sued over at-large elections”
“Texas lawmakers consider election law change for language interpreters”
Texas Tribune:
Almost three years after Mallika Das, a naturalized citizen who spoke Bengali, was unable to vote properly because she was not proficient in English, Texas lawmakers are considering a change to an obscure provision of Texas election law… Continue reading
Breaking: Federal Court in Texas Rules Texas Passed Its Voter ID Law with a Racially Discriminatory Intent
A federal district court has held on remand from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sitting en banc that Texas enacted its controversial voter identification law with a racially discriminatory intent.
If (and it is a… Continue reading
After Being “Rescheduled” Twice, NC Voting Case Now Back on for April 13 SCOTUS Conference, w Justice Gorusch
Docket.
The first question is whether the state gets to withdraw the cert. petition, as the gov. and AG want and the Legislature does not.