“New state law gives Letitia James power over NY’s closest election contests”
Joe Burns NY Post oped on the new NYS voting rights act coming online.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
Sept. 17 Live Event from Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Hammer Museum: “Democracy and Risks to the 2024 Elections”
Very much looking forward to moderating this event (recording will be made available after the event):
Sept. 17: Democracy and Risks to the 2024 Elections
Tuesday, September 17, 7:30pm PT at the UCLA Hammer Museum, (Recording to Follow)Co-presented with the… Continue reading
“Justice Department Issues New Guidance on Federal Law Regarding Voter Registration”
DOJ release:
The Justice Department announced today that it has published a new guidance addressing limits on when and how jurisdictions may remove voters from their voter lists. The guidance document reflects the department’s commitment to ensuring that every eligible… Continue reading
“Texas Attorney General Sues to Stop Voter Registration Push in San Antonio”
NYT:
Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas went to court on Wednesday to try to stop county leaders in San Antonio from sending out more than 200,000 voter registration applications to unregistered residents of Bexar County.
The lawsuit by Mr.… Continue reading
ELB Book Corner: Kareem Crayton: “HBCU’s and Election Integrity” (in Zelizer/Greenberg Volume)
I am very pleased to welcome to ELB Book Corner three contributors to the edited volume, Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue (Julian E. Zelizer & Karen J. Greenberg eds. NYU Press 2024). The third… Continue reading
Colorado: “On Native Land, a New Push to Expand Voting Meets the Long Tail of State Violence”
Bolts:
Lorelei Cloud was born in 1967, three years before Native Americans living on tribal lands in Colorado were guaranteed the right to vote. Even once she turned 18, and for many years thereafter, she did not vote. Her polling… Continue reading
My Forthcoming Yale Law Journal Feature: “The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law”
I have written this draft, forthcoming this spring in Volume 134 of the Yale Law Journal. I consider it my most important law review article (or at least the most important that I’ve written in some time). It offers… Continue reading
“Justice Department Secures Agreement to Eliminate Voting Barriers for Native Americans in South Dakota”
Release:
The Justice Department has secured an agreement with Bennett County, South Dakota, and county officials to resolve claims that the county has failed to make its registration and early voting opportunities equally open to Native American voters as… Continue reading
“Mississippi can wait to reset legislative districts that dilute Black voting strength, judges say”
AP, on yesterday’s order in Mississippi State Conference of NAACP v. State Board of Election Commissioners:
Mississippi can wait until next year to redraw some of its legislative districts to replace ones where Black voting power is currently … Continue reading
“Federal court declines to dismiss Alabama redistricting case after South Carolina ruling”
Alabama Reflector: “The three-judge panel overseeing the legal battle in Allen v. Milligan, which led to the creation of two congressional districts in Alabama with majority or near-majority Black populations, last week rejected a motion from the Alabama Secretary… Continue reading
11th Circuit Denies Rehearing En Banc in Georgia VRA Case
The order in Rose v. Secretary, State of Georgia, is here. As Rick noted in this November post, the panel reversed the district court’s conclusion that the at-large system used to elect Public Service Commission members violates Section… Continue reading
“After controversial court rulings, a Voting Rights Act lawsuit takes an unusual turn”
Hansi Lo Wang for NPR:
Last Friday, attorneys led by the American Civil Liberties Union let a filing deadline pass at the U.S. Supreme Court, choosing not to ask the justices to review a controversial lower court ruling that threatens… Continue reading
“Federal Court Orders Mississippi’s State Legislative Maps to Be Redrawn”
Release:
A federal court has ordered Mississippi to redraw its 2022 state legislative maps in several areas after concluding those maps unlawfully dilute the voting strength of Black Mississippians.
Civil rights advocates challenged the maps and showed at trial that… Continue reading
Breaking: Plaintiffs, Likely Fearing the Supreme Court Will Make Things Worse, Decline to Seek Supreme Court Review of Eighth Circuit Case Holding There’s No Right For Private Parties to Sue Under Section 2 of Voting Rights Act
With today’s deadline, I have learned there will be no cert petition filed. This is a case from the Eighth Circuit that is wrong on the text of the Voting Rights Act, wrong on its history, and wrong on… Continue reading