“Marc Morial, Cedric Richmond ask Justice to block effort to keep Bernette Johnson from becoming chief justice”
The latest from Louisiana.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
Watch Out If Texas Loses on Voting Rights Act Claim in Voter ID Case
J. Christian Adams reports that it is looking a lot like Texas is not going to be able to prove an absence of discriminatory intent or effect as to its voter id law.
Sound like good news for voter id… Continue reading
AG Holder, Going Off Script at NAACP Convention, Calls Voter ID Laws “Poll Taxes”
See here.
It is a position courts have rejected, and analogous to Jim Crow language I believe is unhelpful in the voter id debate.
But it is becoming clearer, as I argue in The Voting Wars, that perhaps the… Continue reading
“As court fight looms over voter ID, those who have none fear losing voice”
If you read one thing about voter id this week, read this.
“Holder, at N.A.A.C.P. Event, Criticizes Voter ID Laws”
NYT’s “The Caucus” reports.
Pam Fessler on the Opening of the Texas Voter ID Trial
Here, at NPR.
“Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, on the Struggle to Win–and Now Protect–Voting Rights in U.S.”
The video is at Democracy Now!.
“The GOP’s crime against voters”
Eugene Robinson: “Spare us any more hooey about ‘preventing fraud’ and ‘protecting the integrity of the ballot box.’ The Republican-led crusade for voter ID laws has been revealed as a cynical ploy to disenfranchise as many likely Democratic voters… Continue reading
“Discriminatory Texas Voter ID Law Challenged in Federal Court”
Ari Berman writes for The Nation.
“Texas Defends Voter ID Law”
Can’t wait for the audio from Pam Fessler’s NPR report to post.
“DOJ, Texas Fight at Trial Over Voter ID Law”
BLT reports.
Gerstein Report on the Opening of the Texas Voter ID Trial
“Texas to test 1965 voting rights law in court”
Reuters reports.
“Making Sense of Chief Justice Roberts’ Opinion”
Jonathan Adler makes a lot of sense: “I can’t speak to how the Chief Justice interacted with his colleagues on the Court during the deliberations in NFIB v. Sebelius, or to whether he truly flip-flopped on the mandate or (as… Continue reading