“Justice Ginsburg Laments ‘Real Racial Problem’ in U.S.”
National Law Journal has excerpts from its interview with Justice Ginsburg, mentioning Shelby County among other things.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Non-white representation on America’s city councils”
Seth Masket has this very interesting analysis on WaPo’s Monkey Cage, finding a higher degree of descriptive representation for African Americans than for Latinos or Asian Americans: “Each additional percent of the population that is African American translates to about… Continue reading
7th Circuit to Hear Oral Argument in Wisconsin Voter ID Case September 12
“Yup’ik Ballots in Alaska Illuminate Language Challenges for Ballots, Election Materials”
“Black groups tell Supreme Court Ala. districts biased”
Mary Troyan reports for Gannett: “The Alabama Legislature will be further racially polarized by new district boundaries that pack more black voters into certain districts than the law requires, state black political groups told the Supreme Court last week.”
“How Ferguson exposes the racial bias in local elections”
Brian Schaffner, Wouter Van Erve and Ray LaRaja:
The conflict in Ferguson, Mo., has captured the nation’s attention and once again put race front and center in American politics. This piece, for instance, notes that while Ferguson is… Continue reading
“Shelby County v. Holder and the gutting of federal preclearance of election law changes”
Dick Engstrom has written this article in Politics, Groups, and Identities. Here is the abstract:
The preclearance provision of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act was rendered ineffective by the United States Supreme Court in 2013 in Shelby County,… Continue reading
District Court Holds Irving Texas School Board Election System Violates Voting Rights Act Section 2
You can read the 55-page opinion. It contains an interesting discussion near the end about what to do about the treatment of large non-citizen populations in Hispanic districts.
“Senate votes to allow new challenges to L.A. County board districts”
Bill to expand California Voting Rights Act awaits Gov. Brown’s signature.
Meanwhile, Fullerton sued under the CA VRA.
“Cantor Voting Rights Act Legacy is Failure to Deliver, Democrats Say”
Via Roll Call, Democrats express disappointment about Eric Cantor’s failure to follow through on a VRA fix after dancing around it for a year.
But the writing was on the wall the day the bill dropped that it was going… Continue reading
“Carl Leubsdorf: Troubling Texas voting changes face court scrutiny”
Federal Court Denies Wisconsin’s Request for Stay in Voter ID Case, Explains Basis for Decision
The federal district court in Frank v. Walker has issued this detailed ruling denying Wisconsin’s request for a stay pending appeal in the voter id case. A stay would have allowed Wisconsin to use its id law in the upcoming… Continue reading
Texas’s Unusual Defense in Voter ID Case: DOJ is Too Partisan
A reader alerted me to this filing of the state of Texas in the voter id case (particularly pages 13-23), raising an affirmative defense to DOJ’s claims that Texas’s voter id law violates section 2 of the Voting Rights Act… Continue reading