Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“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
Politifact Rates as “Half-True” the President’s Statement that The U.S. Justice Department has “taken on more than 100 voting rights cases since 2009”
Here.
Justice Sotomayor’s Schuette Dissent Talks of Shelby County and Voting Rights
In Adam Liptak’s analysis of today’s Supreme Court decision in Shuette, he notes: “But Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in the longest and most significant dissent of her career, said the Constitution required special vigilance in light of the history of slavery,… Continue reading
Michael Li Explains that New Ed Blum Texas Voting Suit is a Lot Like One Blum Recently Lost
So why bring it?
By bringing it up in this way, it will come up to the Supreme Court on direct appeal rather than a discretionary petition for cert. As I’ve explained to blog readers many times, cases up… Continue reading