“A troubled semicentennial remembrance of the Voting Rights Act”
Rick Valelly at Constitution Daily.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“The Real Voter Fraud is Texas’ Voter ID Law”
Guy Charles Talks with NPR’s Here and Now About VRA 50th Anniverary
“The Voting Rights Act turns 50 today. Here are three trends in minority voting you should know about.”
Bernard Fraga for The Monkey Cage:
African Americans can (and do) vote at far higher rates than they did in the decade before the Voting Rights Act, according to the evidence. But Latino and Asian-American turnout remain so low that… Continue reading
“The Eyes of Texas”
Mimi Marziani at ACS on the 5th Circuit’s voter id decision.
“Hurricane SCOTUS: The Hubris of Striking our Democracy’s Discrimination Checkpoint in Shelby County & the Resulting Thunderstorm Assault on Voting Rights”
Ryan Haygood article now posted at the Harvard Law and Policy Review, with this accompanying blog post.
“The Voting Rights Act is a grand success!”
Ilya Shapiro thinks today on the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act we should celebrate the Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby County decision to eviscerate a key portion of the act.
It would be funny if it were not so… Continue reading
“State Constitutions: The Next Frontier in Voting Rights Protection”
Josh Douglas at ACS:
Fifty years later, and we are still trying to figure out the puzzle. Today – the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act – represents both a milestone and an opportunity. It is a milestone that… Continue reading
“The Voting Rights Act at 50: The Texas Voter ID Story – Timeline”
New report posted by the Lawyers’ Committee.
“The Unfortunate Evolution of the Voting Rights Act; A great law that protected minority voters has in recent decades become a sword for politicians in both parties.”
Edward Blum WSJ oped.
The correction to the story is incorrect. Justice Thomas did not write for the majority in Holder v. Hall.
“Roberts’ iffy support for voting rights”
Here is my 2005 LA Times oped on Chief Justice Roberts’ role in working for the Reagan administration against the expansion of the Voting Rights Act in 1982 (the expansion which created Section 2 as we know it today, which… Continue reading
“For Latinos, 1965 Voting Rights Act Impact Came A Decade Later”
“The Original Voter Suppression Data: The Numbers Behind the 1965 Voting Rights Act”
Jon Sherman:
After a long and difficult battle culminating in the Selma to Montgomery March, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) was born 50 years ago today. Previous efforts had failed to curb racial discrimination in voting, but the VRA’s… Continue reading
“State Legislatures Adjourning, But Voting Rights Still Center Stage”
Goldfeder and Perez for NYLJ.