Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“The Gutting of the Voting Rights Act Could Decide the 2016 Election”
It’s a good piece by Ari Berman but terrible framing.
Courts should strike down restrictive voting laws that make it harder to register or vote for no good reason, whether or not such laws affect election outcomes.
And I have… Continue reading
“Appellate judges skeptical about North Carolina’s voter ID law”
Early report on oral argument from AP.
“Lawyers’ Committee Releases New Report Examining Voting Rights Restrictions Following 2013 Supreme Court Ruling”
Release:
Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee) released a new report, “Voting Rights Communication Pipelines: Georgia After Shelby County v. Holder” – examining Georgia, one of fourteen states that was subject to… Continue reading
“N.C. photo ID, voting law heading to an appeals court”
AP:
Far-reaching voting changes in North Carolina approved by Republicans three years ago and upheld by a federal judge now head to an appeals court that previously sided with those challenging the law on racial grounds.
The 4th U.S.… Continue reading
“Shelby County v. Holder’s Biggest and Most Harmful Impact May Be on Our Nation’s Smallest Towns”
Verrilli’s Regret
From must-read Adam Liptak exit interview with the outgoing SG:
The loss he most regrets, Mr. Verrilli said, was in 2013, in Shelby County v. Holder, which effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.… Continue reading
“Democracy Diminished: LDF Releases Report on State and Local Threats to Voting Rights Three Years After Landmark Shelby County Decision”
Release:
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), released a report titled, Democracy Diminished: State and Local Threats to Voting Post-Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder (Shelby County), a detailed collection of state, county, and local… Continue reading
The Atlantic Talks Voting Rights with Brennan Center’s Michael Waldman
#SCOTUS Will Hear Another Racial Gerrymandering Case
The Supreme Court this morning noted probable jurisdiction in the Bethune-Hill case, raising racial gerrymandering claims in state legislative elections in Va. The SCOTUSBlog page is here.
Just a few weeks ago, the Court dismissed on standing grounds a… Continue reading
“Voter Welfare: An Emerging Rule of Reason in Voting Rights Law”
Sam Issacharoff has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Indiana Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
For the first time in at least a generation, the central focus of voting rights law has returned to the issue of eligibility to… Continue reading
“Using the Voting Rights Act to Discriminate: Gerrymanders, Two Racial Quotas, Safe Harbors, Shields, and Inoculations to Undermine Multiracial Coalitions and North Carolina’s Use of Racial Black Political Power”
Michael Curtis has posted this draft on SSRN (Wake Forest Law Review). Here is the abstract:
This Article focuses on new developments in the ongoing saga of North Carolina’s 2011 state legislative and congressional reapportionment and gerrymander. The earlier article… Continue reading
Quote of the Day
“It’s not really about knocking down barriers. There are no serious barriers to voting anymore anywhere in America.”
–Sen. Mitch McConnell, in interview with USA Today
“Inventing Equal Sovereignty”
The lead article in the new issue of the Michigan Law Review comes from my new colleague Leah Litman. You will want to read this:
The Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder relied on the “fundamental principle”… Continue reading