Ari Berman’s Take on Wisconsin Voter ID Ruling
Here, at The Nation.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
Wisconsin Will Appeal Voter ID Ruling to 7th Circuit. Will Judge Posner Recuse?
On the appeal.
On Judge Posner’s comments on voter id decision from Indiana.
(I leave to judicial ethicists the question whether the judge needs to recuse. But I expect that there will be some people who like voter id… Continue reading
“In-Person Voter Fraud Is Virtually Nonexistent, Federal Judge Rules”
Ryan Reilly reports for HuffPo.
“Judge finds Wisconsin voter ID law unconstitutional”
“Chief Justice Roberts, Meet Bundy and Sterling”
Jeffrey Toobin writes.
I expressed similar sentiments recently in a tweet to @KenBurns.
“Last Week’s Affirmative Action Setback Could Be a Boost to Voting Rights”
An (unduly?) rosy read at TNR from Chris Elmendorf and Doug Spencer.
“How North Carolina’s Voter ID Law Could Actually Help Democrats This Year”
Kate Nocera reports for BuzzFeed.
Federal Court Rejects Voting Rights Lawsuit Against At-Large Voting in Pasadena TX School Board Elections
Read the 46-page opinion in Cisneros v. PISD.
“Political Fraud About Voter Fraud”
Robert Popper, a former DOJ voting rights lawyer who now works for Judicial Watch, has written this WSJ oped, which spends a good part of the time attacking the News21 methodology for determining voter fraud.
I’ve got a lot of… Continue reading
“Only Some Southern Whites Are the New Blacks (and Many Are Not)”
Michael McDonald crunches the numbers.
“South Carolina Supreme Court Rules that Minor Parties Don’t Need to Get Permission from Primary Voters to Continue Nominating by Convention”
Richard Winger explains.
One interesting aspect of the case considers how to interpret laws passed by jurisdictions formerly subject to Voting Rights Act preclearance that put the laws on holding pending preclearance.
“Race and the Supreme Court”
Andrew Cohen reflects on Schuette, Shelby County, and more.
“Southern Whites’ Loyalty to G.O.P. Nearing That of Blacks to Democrats”
Nate Cohn at NYT’s New “The Upshot:”
It is impossible to discuss Mr. Obama’s weakness among Southern whites without mention of race. It is surely a factor, and perhaps even a large one. Mr. Obama performed significantly worse than John… Continue reading
This Does Not Bode Well for Congress’s Updating of the Voting Rights Act
At I have been writing, the only real chance of the Voting Rights Act Amendment (which would restore a form of preclearance regime) making it out of the current session of Congress appears to be if the bill… Continue reading