Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

“Texas Voters Urge Fifth Circuit to Uphold Ruling Striking Down Texas Voter Photo ID Law”

March 3, 2015, 11:54 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Release: Today in Veasey v. Abbott, attorneys at the Campaign Legal Center, who serve as co-counsel for plaintiffs Congressman Marc Veasey, LULAC, and a group of Texas voters, filed a brief urging the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to… Continue reading

“50 Years of the Voting Rights Act”

March 3, 2015, 9:10 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Release: Today the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies released 50 Years of the Voting Rights Act: The State of Race in Politics. The report examines minority voter turnout, racially polarized voting, policy outcomes by race, and… Continue reading

“Does Candidate Race Impact Who Turns Out to Vote?”

March 3, 2015, 8:44 amcampaigns, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

AJPS: The forthcoming article “Candidates or Districts? Reevaluating the Role of Race in Voter Turnout” byBernard L. Fraga is summarized by the author here: The recent film “Selma” highlighted the struggle by African-Americans to win voting rights. Yet… Continue reading

“Where black voters stand 50 years after the Voting Rights Act was passed”

March 3, 2015, 7:27 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

WaPo: African Americans have come a long way politically over the past half-century, but disparities remain. In the five decades since the passage of the Voting Rights Act, blacks have made significant strides in registering and turning out to vote,… Continue reading

“Proportional Voting Through the Elections Clause: Protecting Voting Rights Post-Shelby County”

March 2, 2015, 2:52 pmElections Clause, electoral college, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Conner Johnston has written this student note for the UCLA Law Review.

“Section 2 Zero-Sums: How the Supreme Court Misconstrued the Voting Rights Act, Limits Minority Representation, and Dangerously Pits Minorities Against Each Other”

March 2, 2015, 2:47 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Salvador Perez has written this piece for the Stanford Law Review Online.

“Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Why We Still Need a Selma”

March 2, 2015, 9:54 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Here.

“Fifty Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed”

February 28, 2015, 8:40 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Read Ari Berman. Then you can preorder his book, “Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.”

“Roberts at 10: Turning Back the Clock on Protections for Racial Equality”

February 26, 2015, 12:30 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

David Gans writes.

Off to University of Alabama Voting Rights Act Symposium

February 25, 2015, 9:55 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Looking forward to this. I’ll be talking about the Alabama redistricting case, awaiting decision at the Supreme Court. Regular blogging resumes on Monday.

“The Next Attack on Voting Rights; And why Democrats should fight for a constitutional right-to-vote amendment.”

February 25, 2015, 2:00 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Jamelle Bouie for Slate.

WI Voter ID Opponents File #SCOTUS Reply to Get Court to Take Case

February 24, 2015, 12:34 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can read the short reply here. The reply makes a good and important timing point: This case is the only vehicle that guarantees the Court an opportunity to address the constitutional and statutory questions surrounding restrictive voter ID … Continue reading

“Trend 1: The rise of majority-minority and near-majority-minority states”

February 24, 2015, 7:36 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

States of Change The Demographic Evolution of the American Electorate, 1974–2060 The demographics of the United States are projected to become much more diverse in the coming decades and will have significant effects on the nation’s voting electorate in… Continue reading