“Does a voting-rights case threaten experimentation?”
Michael McGough in the LA Times on the non-retrogression question lurking in the North Carolina voting rights case.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
Hillary Clinton to Appear on Al Sharpton Radio Show on 50 Anniversary of VRA
The Republicans’ 50th Anniversary Voting Rights Act Celebration
The Hill:
House Republican leaders are slamming the brakes on voting rights legislation, insisting that any movement on the issue go through a key Republican committee chairman who opposes the proposal.
House Democrats are pressing hard on GOP leaders… Continue reading
“Voting Rights at 50”
This new one by Sam Issacharoff (forthcoming, Alabama Law Review symposium on 50th anniversary of VRA) goes to the top of my reading list. Here is the abstract:
The fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act comes at a difficult… Continue reading
“John Roberts has been trying to gut the Voting Rights Act for decades”
Scott Lemieux at The Week.
“The Voting Rights Act at 50 and the Section on Election Law at Birth: A Perspective”
Gene Mazo has posted this abstract (no draft) on SSRN (forthcoming ELJ):
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the scholarly community has been fretting over the statute’s possible demise. Two years after Shelby County v.… Continue reading
“Voting against discrimination: The crucial step America took 50 years ago to affirm its democratic values is under unprecedented assault”
Theodore Shaw and Vishal Agraharkar write for the NYDN.
“50 years after the Voting Rights Act, election law expert assesses its impact and recent changes”
KC Star:
Black men had been granted the right to vote in 1870 in the 15th Amendment, which said people should be allowed to vote regardless of their race or previous condition of slavery.
But soon after Reconstruction, which ended… Continue reading
“Historic federal trial on voting rights ends; judge to issue decision later this year”
Winston-Salem Journal:
Thomas Farr, one of the state’s attorneys, said in closing arguments that the plaintiffs had not presented any evidence that the law is racially discriminatory. He said North Carolina legislators have the authority to enact changes to… Continue reading
“US judge has many questions in NC voting rights case”
“Key Voting Rights Test Now in Federal Judge’s Hands”
Erik Eckholm for the NYT:
During closing arguments Friday, Judge Schroeder,who was appointed by President George W. Bush, peppered the plaintiffs’ lawyers with questions about why the repeal of extra voting opportunities that do not exist in many states would… Continue reading
“Closing arguments in voting rights trial set for today”
Michael Hewlett reports for the Winston-Salem Journal.
Kudos to them for their indispensable coverage of the North Carolina voting rights trial.
“This is why the Voting Rights Act is on trial in North Carolina”
I have written this post for The Monkey Cage at WaPo. It begins:
In a Winston-Salem, N.C. federal courthouse, closing arguments are taking place this morning in a hotly-contested trial over North Carolina’s restrictive voting law. The U.S.… Continue reading
Revealing @SeanTrende-@Dale_E_Ho Exchange in NC Voting Rights Trial
I excerpt it in this post at The Monkey Cage:
North Carolina passed its 2013 restrictive voting law just a month afterShelby. So is the change connected to is history of race discrimination? Real Clear Politics’ Sean Trende, testifying as … Continue reading