“Harmful Language Barrier in Elections Bill Would Impact Many Seeking Assistance at the Polls”
Project Vote release on a particularly controversial provision in Florida’s election bill.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Calera pastor involved in Shelby County’s Voting Rights Act case faces rape charge’
News from Alabama.
“Scalia’s latest: Unethical or merely appalling?”
AFJ blogs on the Justice’s recent statements about the Voting Rights Act.
“Justice Scalia’s Latest ‘Racial Entitlement’ Remark”
“Did Scalia Tip His Hand In Major Voting Rights Case?”
@TPM reports. My earlier coverage is here.
“House GOP slams Justice Department as racist, mismanaged; Sheila Jackson Lee pushes back”
“Florida Senate Republicans crack down on foreign-language interpreters for voting”
Marc Caputo:
Desiline Victor, the 102-year-old North Miami voter who became a symbol of Florida’s elections woes, could again find it tough to cast a ballot now that the Republican-controlled state Senate voted Tuesday to keep a crack down… Continue reading
Justice Scalia, Commenting on Pending Case, Calls Voting Rights Act “Racial Preferment”
Jess Bravin:
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told university students that key provisions of the Voting Rights Act had evolved from an emergency response to racial discrimination in 1965 to an “embedded” form of “racial preferment” that would likely… Continue reading
Sam Bagenstos Defends DOJ, Tom Perez
Testimony here.
You can find links to the other witness testimony at the House hearing at this link.
UPDATE: Watch this exchange between Rep. Gowdy and Prof. Bagenstos about the South Carolina preclearance process and whether career attorneys… Continue reading
“How conservatives invented ‘voter fraud’ to attack civil rights”
Gary May excerpt at Salon of forthcoming book, Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy.
“Lawmakers: Tackle Redistricting or Wait for Courts?”
Ross Ramsey for the Texas Tribune:
Greg Abbott is selling a redistricting nostrum, telling Texas legislators they could cut their legal risks by adopting new political maps right away.
It is a hard sell. Lawmakers are getting along so well… Continue reading