….here is some of my writing about the case if you want to get up to speed: What’s Lost if the Voting Rights Falls? (Slate) If the Court Strikes Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (Reuters) Who Controls Voting … Continue reading

Armand Derfner and Gerry Hebert have written this guest post (available as a pdf [CORRECTED FILE]) for ELB, which begins: Much of the debate in the pending Shelby County case centers on whether the remedy in Section 5 of the… Continue reading

The Future of Section 5: Perspectives on Shelby County v. Holder With the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder looming this month, YLJ Online presents a series of reflections on the case below.     The Dignity of the … Continue reading

Amy Howe: We often think of Justice Anthony Kennedy as the swing vote on the Court, and that might eventually wind up being the case here.  But nothing that he said at the oral argument gave supporters of the Voting… Continue reading

Ari Berman writes for The Nation.

News from Alabama.

We are getting close to a decision in the Supreme Court on Shelby County, Alabama’s challenge to section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. This is the part of the VRA which requires jurisdictions (mostly, but not only in the… Continue reading

Ellen Katz in the Yale Law Journal Online: Following oral argument in Shelby County v. Holder, Abigail Thernstrom proposed a provocative analogy. Thernstrom, the vice chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and a longtime commentator on voting issues,… Continue reading