Hoyer: Glacial Pace of Progress on Voting Rights Amendments Act Unlikely to Change with Cantor Loss
So reports Buzzfeed.
See also my pre-Cantor loss post, VRAA DOA?
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Eric Cantor’s Defeat Is Bad News for the Voting Rights Act”
Of course Ari Berman is right on this. But his column also contains something I had not heard:
The bill was written specifically with Cantor in mind, watered down on the key issue of voter ID to attract GOP support.… Continue reading
Voting Rights Opponents Press Majority Leader Cantor on VRAA
“Attorney General Holder Suggests New Proposal to Boost Voting Access for American Indians and Alaska Natives”
“Comment Of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Chairman, Senate Committee On The Judiciary, On The Department Of Justice’s Initiative To Ensure Access To Voting For Native Americans and Alaska Natives”
Repealing the “Voter Rights Act?”
An early draft of the Texas GOP platform called for repealing the entire Voting Rights Act (misnamed the Voter Rights Act). Anyone know if this got passed?
The platform got attention for other reasons.
UPDATE: So apparently this has… Continue reading
“Judge Orders Palmdale To Pay $3.5M For Voting Rights Act Violation”
According to the article, Palmdale is considering a Petition for Review to the California Supreme Court.
Apparently the original attorneys fees request was for $5.2 million.
“Feds say state election officials wrong on Native language rules”
Anchorage Daily News: “A federal judge on Wednesday overruled state election officials and said the constitutional right to vote requires Alaska to translate all election materials into Native languages for voters with limited English skills.”
Larry Tribe on (Non-)Lessons of Schuette for Same Sex Marriage Cases
Fascinating build on idea Justices’ talk about democratic process often just rhetoric:
It would therefore be ill-advised for casual readers of these opinions to make too much of the justices’ language celebrating or denigrating democratic process. Substantive beliefs about equality… Continue reading
“Voting in America” Event at Library of Congress June 11
VRAA DOA?
It is sure looking that way.
And it is no surprise. As I wrote the day the bill dropped in January:
The politics and path dependence. Despite these constitutional issues, I would bet that the VRAA would have passed… Continue reading
DOJ Files Statement of Interest in Alaska VRA Section 203 Case
How is the SCOTUS Opinion in Bond Like NAMUDNO?
Richard Re:
The doctrine of one last chance holds that the Court must stay its hand once — but just once — before issuing immediately disruptive decisions. This precept most obviously arose in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No.… Continue reading
Shelby County Appeals Loss of $2 Million Attorney Fee Request to DC Circuit
Following up on this post, in which I said that the lower court’s denial of fees “seems a sensible result to me, but it raises a number of issues of first impression, so there could be an appeal,” there is… Continue reading