“Justice Department Voting Rights Unit Adapts After Supreme Court Ruling”
Carrie Johnson of NPR talks to Justin Levitt and others about voting issues at DOJ.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Angry Arizona Voters Demand: Why Such Long Lines at Polling Sites?”
Fernanda Santos reports for the NYT:
All day, lines meandered along church courtyards, zigzagged along school parking lots and snaked around shadeless blocks as tens of thousands of voters waited to cast their ballots, including many independents who did not… Continue reading
“Election Law’s Path in the Roberts Court’s First Decade: A Sharp Right Turn but with Speed Bumps and Surprising Twists”
I have posted a revised version of this paper (forthcoming, Stanford Law Review) to take into account the death of Justice Scalia. Here is the revised abstract:
This Essay describes the path of election law jurisprudence in the Roberts Court… Continue reading
Would Long Lines at AZ Polling Places Have Happened if #SCOTUS Hadn’t Killed Voting Rights Act Provision?
AP:
The Arizona presidential primary drew long lines Tuesday as people waited at least an hour in many polling spots to cast their ballots amid heightened interest in the polarizing contest for the White House….
Long lines were expected… Continue reading
5th Circuit Won’t Consider Emergency Injunction in TX Voter ID Case Until Oral Argument
So reports Raffi Melkonian.
Plaintiffs in Texas Voter ID Case Want En Banc 5th Circuit to Stop Use of ID Law Pending Final Decision in Case
Press release:
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) today called on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate its stay of a lower court’s ruling so that Texas’s harmful voter ID law will not prevent voters from casting… Continue reading
Judge Merrick Garland: A Moderate Liberal on Election Law Issues, With Questions About Boldness
I have now had a chance to review the substantive election law decisions of Judge Merrick Garland that my research assistant and I have identified (listed after the jump). With the caveat that the job of a lower court judge… Continue reading
“Will a Conservative Court Uphold Texas’ Discriminatory Voter ID Law?”
Ari Berman writes for The Nation.
More Coverage of the Texas Voter ID Decision to Go En Banc
ELB Podcast Episode 10. Janai Nelson: Minority Voting Rights in 2016
What has happened to African-American voting rights after the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder? Can the Voting Rights Act still protect minority voting rights in states such as Alabama and Texas? What are the prospects that… Continue reading
Breaking: 5th Circuit to Hear Texas Voter ID Case En Banc, And This Could Be Final Court to Hear Case
It is not clear what internal deliberations were taking place at the 5th Circuit which took the Court more than 5 months to issue this order, but the full 5th Circuit will consider Veasey v. Abbott en banc by the … Continue reading
“Alabama’s New Fight for Voting Rights”
Spencer Woodman for Vice:
The recent proliferation of new restrictions has inflected the celebrations in Selma this week with worries of a resurgent era of voter suppression—concerns that have taken on new urgency ahead of the first presidential election since… Continue reading
“The Voting Rights Act at 50: The Past, Present, and Future of the Right to Vote”
Symposium in the Louisiana Law Review:
Tempering Society’s Looking Glass: Correcting Misconceptions About the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Securing American Democracy
Orville Vernon Burton
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The Irony of Intent: Statutory Interpretation and the Constitutionality of Section 2 of … Continue reading
“Voters Were Blocked From the Polls on Super Tuesday by New Restrictions”
Ari Berman:
The 2016 election is the first in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act. Texas is a perfect case study of what has happened since the Supreme Court gutted the VRA. Clark… Continue reading