Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Court Filing Accuses Texas of Misleading Voters Without IDs”
Michael Wines for the NYT:
The reason, the motion stated, is that the campaign omits the word “reasonably,” stating instead that voters can cast ballots only if they swear that they “cannot obtain” an identification card. That not only ignores… Continue reading
“Lawyers’ Committee Files Federal Voting Rights Lawsuit Challenging Discriminatory Method of Electing Judges to Highest Courts in State of Alabama”
Release:
Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee), filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP and four individual black voters alleging that the method of electing Alabama’s most powerful judges… Continue reading
U.S. Goes After Texas for Not Implementing Voter ID Softening as Promised
Motion:
Despite the Remedial Order’s clarity, Texas’s voter education and poll worker training documents depart from it. Rather than educating voters and poll officials about opportunities tocast a regular ballot for those who “do not possess SB 14 ID and… Continue reading
“The spurious claims against voters’ Golden Week add up to GOP monkey business”
Thomas Suddes column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Justice Kagan Asks for OH to Respond to “Golden Week” Emergency Petition
Response due Thursday, Sept. 8.
See my earlier coverage and thoughts on this case.
“North Carolina May End Up Back In Court Over Its Foot Dragging On Early Voting”
“Inside the Republican creation of the North Carolina voting bill dubbed the ‘monster’ law”
Today’s must-read at WaPo:
A review of these documents shows that North Carolina GOP leaders launched a meticulous and coordinated effort to deter black voters, who overwhelmingly vote for Democrats. The law, created and passed entirely by white legislators, evoked… Continue reading
“Protecting Voting Rights and Indian Country: A Precedent Setting Victory”
Byran Sells and Tim Pordon oped at Indian Country Today.
“Analysis: Voting Rights Hang in the Balance This November”
Zack Roth for NBC News.
NC Voting #SCOTUS Deadlock Roundup
Breaking: #SCOTUS 4-4 Tie in NC Voting Case Leaves Lower Court Ruling in Place and Shows Us Power of Appeals Courts Post-Scalia
The Supreme Court has denied a stay in the North Carolina voting case, with the Justices mostly dividing 4-4. The stay order indicates that the Chief Justice, Justice Alito, and Justice Kennedy would have granted the stay except with respect… Continue reading
“Turnout, Tenuousness, and Getting Results in Section 2 Vote Denial Claims”
Pam Karlan has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Ohio St. L.J.). Here is the abstract:
In recent years, courts have been called on to adjudicate a new series of cases involving vote denial — practices that prevent individuals from… Continue reading
Ed Blum on the Future of Voting Rights after Scalia
Part of the SCOTUSBlog symposium on the Court after Scalia.
Ed is the guy behind the Shelby County and the Evenwel cases.
You can find my take on the question here in the SCOTUSBlog symposium.