Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Shelby Missed Selma Ceremony, Citing Scheduling Conflicts”
Roll Call:
While the nation’s attention was focused on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the senior senator from Alabama was hours from Selma, participating in his annual tour of the state’s 67 counties.
Sen.… Continue reading
“Honor Selma by Protecting Voting Rights”
Ari Berman dispatch.
He got some Republican Senators to say they might look into fixing Section 5. We’ll see.
“Martin Luther King’s Call for Voting Rights Inspired Isolated Hamlet”
Retro Report:
To find Gee’s Bend on a map of Alabama, you would do well to put your finger on Selma and trace an imaginary line roughly 35 miles to the southwest. Selma is famous, of course, especially on… Continue reading
“Selma Throng Is Told That Voting Rights Remain Under Threat”
NYT:
Echoing a speech given by President Obama a day earlier, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Sunday that access to the polls was “under siege” by a flurry of recent state laws, and by a 2013 United States… Continue reading
“President Barack Obama tells Selma crowd that Voting Rights Act ‘stands weakened'”
“Selma highlights hypocrisy on voting rights, Democrats say; Fifty years after the march, voting rights legislation is languishing.’
“From Selma to Texas: Why the Voting Rights Act is Still Vital”
Vishal Agraharker writes for the Brennan Center.
“North of Selma, black leaders ‘fighting the same battle’”
WaPo:
There will be no party here this weekend. While thousands are gathering just an hour or so south in Selma to remember one of the high marks of the civil rights movement, black leaders say there is nothing… Continue reading
Supreme Court to Consider WI Voter ID Cert Petition at March 20 Conference
Docket.
The North Carolina case is a bit further behind, with the opposition brief from the League of Women Voters due today.
“Honor Selma by Honoring Voting Rights”
“Obama Returns To Selma For 50th Anniversary Of Historic March”
“Assignment America: Selma”
Gay Talese reflects for the NYT.
Senator Tim Scott Calls for “De-Coupling” Voting Rights Legislation and Selma Commemoration
WOW:
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., an honorary co-chairman of the Selma trip and the only African-American Republican in the Senate, said voting rights and the commemoration of Selma should be “de-coupled.”
“The issue of voting rights legislation and the… Continue reading