Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
Derfner and Hebert: The Voting Rights Act: Does the City of Boerne case or the “congruence and proportionality” test have anything to do with the Voting Rights Act?
Armand Derfner and Gerry Hebert have written this guest post (available as a pdf [CORRECTED FILE]) for ELB, which begins:
Much of the debate in the pending Shelby County case centers on whether the remedy in Section 5 of the… Continue reading
Texas Redistricting Deal Coming?
Could be (via Michael Li).
How Anglos and Minority Voters May Think Differently About Redistricting and Communities of Interest
Cogent observations from Michael Li.
“Redistricting is Harder than It Looked”
Yale Law Journal Online Symposium on Shelby County Case
The Future of Section 5: Perspectives on Shelby County v. Holder
With the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder looming this month, YLJ Online presents a series of reflections on the case below.
The Dignity of the … Continue reading
“Future of voting rights up in the air: In Plain English”
Amy Howe:
We often think of Justice Anthony Kennedy as the swing vote on the Court, and that might eventually wind up being the case here. But nothing that he said at the oral argument gave supporters of the Voting… Continue reading
“John Lewis’s Long Fight for Voting Rights”
Ari Berman writes for The Nation.
Local Virginia Officials Deny DOJ Request to Inspect Polls
“Too disruptive,” Augusta County officials say, apparently about investigation into a possible problem related to access to polling for the disabled.
“How Section 5 Blocked a GOP Power Grab in Texas”
Zack Roth writes for MSNBC.
“Leaders call on Justice Scalia to recuse self from Section 5 case”
News from Alabama.
My Prediction in the Shelby County Case
We are getting close to a decision in the Supreme Court on Shelby County, Alabama’s challenge to section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. This is the part of the VRA which requires jurisdictions (mostly, but not only in the… Continue reading
“A Cure Worse than the Disease?”
Ellen Katz in the Yale Law Journal Online:
Following oral argument in Shelby County v. Holder, Abigail Thernstrom proposed a provocative analogy. Thernstrom, the vice chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and a longtime commentator on voting issues,… Continue reading
“Justice Anthony Kennedy and Shelby County”
Gerry Hebert:
As someone who has devoted the vast majority of my professional career enforcing the Voting Rights Act, the imminent decision in the Shelby County, Alabama case will be of great interest to me. My perspective is a… Continue reading