Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

“GOPer amps up voting rights reform push”

November 22, 2013, 11:26 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Hill: The powerful House Republican said this week that he’s preparing to throw his full weight behind the effort to reinstall the voting protections shot down by the Supreme Court in June. Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr., former head of… Continue reading

Election Law in the New Issue of Harvard Law Review

November 21, 2013, 7:30 amelection administration, Elections Clause, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The November issue includes three items discussing Shelby, Inter-Tribal, or both: FOREWORD Equality Divided Reva B. Siegel COMMENTS Beyond the Discrimination Model On Voting Samuel Issacharoff LEADING CASES CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Elections Clause — Federal Preemption of State Law — Federal … Continue reading

“LAA Annual Fall Conference: The Future of Voting Rights”

November 20, 2013, 9:14 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Video: 2013 Law Alumni Association (LAA) Annual Fall Conference: “The Future of Voting Rights” The conference, co-sponsored by the NYU Law Alumni Association and the Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, took place on Wednesday, November 13, 2013. Voting… Continue reading

BREAKING: “State high court to consider two voter ID cases”

November 20, 2013, 11:37 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Woah: The Wisconsin Supreme Court took over one voter ID case Wednesday and said it would hear an appeal of another. The move by the high court cancels oral arguments that were to be held next month before the… Continue reading

“Is the VRA Still Necessary?: Attitudinal Support of Electoral Reform in a Post-Jim Crow Era”

November 18, 2013, 7:12 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

A group of researchers at the University of Maryland have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court’s recently issued opinion in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder (2013) declared an important part of the Voting Rights… Continue reading

Josh Blackman on My Recent Work on Race, Party and Voting Rights

November 18, 2013, 7:55 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

He blogs here, discussing my NY Times oped from Saturday and my forthcoming HLRF piece,Race or Party? How Courts Should Think About Republican Efforts to Make it Harder to Vote in North Carolina and Elsewhere.

“Voter Suppression’s New Pretext”

November 15, 2013, 8:27 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this oped for the NY Times. It begins: “IT’S the latest fad among state officials looking to make voting harder: We’re not racist, we’re just partisan.” Another snippet: Shifting the debate away from the “race versus party” … Continue reading

“U.S. Government Opposes Motion By Right Wing ‘True the Vote’ to Intervene in TX Photo ID Case”

November 15, 2013, 4:59 pmelection administration, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

This item appears at The Brad Blog.

“Assembly approves changes to voting hours, ID law”

November 14, 2013, 8:40 pmelection administration, recall elections, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “In a late-night session Thursday, Republicans in the state Assembly approved measures to reinstate Wisconsin’s voter ID law, tighten early voting hours and limit the ability to recall some elected officials. They also took a first step… Continue reading

“In Voter ID Trial, State Witness Says Similar Georgia Law Depressed White Turnout Most”

November 14, 2013, 9:43 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Wisconsin Public Radio reports.

“Elefino (cont.): Did Voter ID Cause Low Texas Turnout?”

November 14, 2013, 7:46 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

A ChapinBlog.

PUSH Voting Rights Panel

November 13, 2013, 7:46 amelection administration, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Full Program http://rainbow.3cdn.net/a556f4096b56b58efc_zvm6bxkjl.pdf * Full Registraqtion https://secure.rainbowpush.org/page/contribute/2013-rainbow-push-coalition-citizenship-education-fund FRIDAY FORUM AT 2 PM, CAPITOL HILTON 1001 16th Street, NW VOTING RIGHTS AMENDMENT PANEL: “In A Democracy Voting Is Fundamental” The fundamental individual “right to vote” is not in the United States… Continue reading

“Race or Party?: How Courts Should Think About Republican Efforts to Make it Harder to Vote in North Carolina and Elsewhere”

November 11, 2013, 9:36 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have posted this draft on SSRN (127 Harvard Law Review Forum (forthcoming Dec. 2013)). Here is the abstract: North Carolina, Texas, and other states with Republican legislatures have passed a series of laws making it harder for voters to… Continue reading