“Online symposium: The Court and the Voting Rights Act”
Coming to SCOTUSBlog next week.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Rights group asks court to stop Texas voting map”
AP: “A Latino civil rights group is asking the Supreme Court to stop Texas from using congressional districts drawn by a lower federal court in the November election because they discriminate against minorities.”
I give this petition very little… Continue reading
“The Representative Government Principle”
Bertrall Ross has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming,Fordham Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Challenges under the Equal Protection Clause require proof of intentional discrimination. That conventional account is rarely questioned by legal scholars or the courts. But that… Continue reading
“Voting rights cases: Made simple”
SCOTUSBlog: “Editor’s note: During the Supreme Court’s summer recess, the blog is publishing a series of posts that explain, in non-legal terms, some of the most important cases that the Court will consider in the new Term that starts… Continue reading
“The Citizens United Court and the Continuing Importance of the Voting Rights Act”
The Senate Judiciary committee will hold this hearing (and webcast) on September 12.
“Feds OK Florida early voting plan for 5 counties”
AP: “U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder agreed Wednesday to accept Florida’s revised early-voting plan for five counties covered by the federal Voting Rights Act. Holder filed his response with a three-judge panel in Washington, D.C.”
“Texas Republicans may inadvertently have saved Voting Rights Act”
This article (which I linked to a few days ago with a protected link) is now available for free from the Dallas Morning News.
“South Carolina Says Voter ID Law’s ‘Reasonable Impediment’ Is Whatever A Voter Says It Is”
“Redistricting in Today’s Changing Racial Landscape”
Abigail Thernstrom has written this article, published at 23 Stanford Law and Policy Review 373 (2012). From the conclusion:
At its inception, the Voting Rights Act stood on very firm constitu-tional ground; it was pure antidiscrimination legislation designed to… Continue reading
“Five Ways Courts Say Texas Discriminated Against Black and Latino Voters”
“Voter Suppression: The Confederacy Rises Again”
Ari Berman has written this piece for The Nation.
“A Ballot Box Tactic Has Deep Historical Roots; The GOP’s war on voting rights isn’t new. It harks back to past efforts to alter the political process.”
Sherrilyn Ifill has written this piece for The Root.
“Data Issues in Texas Voter ID Case Highlight Coming Battle Over Voting Rights Act”
“Despite voter ID law, minority turnout up in Georgia”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “When Georgia became one of the first states in the nation to demand a photo ID at the ballot box, both sides served up dire predictions. Opponents labeled it a Jim Crow-era tactic that would suppress the… Continue reading