I have written this oped for the NY Times. It begins: Has the tide against restrictive voting laws turned? In the last few weeks, voting rights groups, in some instances working with the Department of Justice, have posted a series… Continue reading

Bob Barnes for WaPo.

Zack Roth for Slate: Some liberals are even starting to hope that a future Supreme Court—with a ninth member appointed by President Hillary Clinton—could overturn Shelby. It’s not impossible, but the idea isn’t on voting rights advocates’ immediate radar. Shelbyinvalidated… Continue reading

Release. Motion.

Rick Pildes and I were guests. Listen.

Today’s must read from Michael Wines in the NYT on what is still lost with the demise of Section 5 preclearance.

I spoke with NPR’s Michel Martin on All Things Considered. Listen.

In a 119-page opinion, a federal district court has struck a host of WI voting rules, including certain voter id provisions, as unconstitutional. Among other things, the court has ordered that expired but otherwise valid student id cards will be… Continue reading

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You can find the 83 pages of decisions at this link. A partially divided panel of 4th Circuit judges reversed a massive trial court opinion which had rejected a number of constitutional and Voting Rights Act challenges to North Carolina’s… Continue reading

McClatchy: Two years ago, then-Rep. Pete Gallego, D-Texas, lost to a Republican challenger by a little more than 2,000 votes in a vast congressional district that stretches from San Antonio for over 800 miles of border, brush and desert… Continue reading