GW Event Tomorrow on Shelby County Case—Now Open to the Press Too
Details here on what looks like a great event.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
Quote of the Day
“I think by the time the debate is concluded, there will be a very bipartisan consensus that if there is an amendment needed to Section 5 to keep it viable, the votes will be overwhelming.”
—Representative Jim Sensenbrenner,… Continue reading
“The Unintended Consequences of the Voting Rights Act”
Bloomberg Businessweek: “At a sensitive and historic moment in racial relations in the U.S., late-night comedian Bill Maher has offered some of the most provocative commentary on the future of civil rights. I will explain.”
“Whither the Texas Maps Post-Shelby County?”
“Obama Voting Rights Act: Administration Planned For Law Being Struck Down”
HuffPo: “If the Obama administration needs a plan to deal with the likely death of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, it may be able to dust off its blueprint from 2009….Unbeknownst to the public, President Barack… Continue reading
“Bloody Sunday, the Voting Rights Act, and the Movement of History”
“Washington Voting Rights Act advances to state Senate”
“Fairfax GOP fighting to get von Spakovsky back on election board”
Watchdog.org reports.
[Brian] Schoeneman [chosen instead of von Spakovsky] said “Democrats may feel they won (in removing von Spakovsky), but there isn’t going to be a whole lot of daylight between Hans and myself on the issue of voter… Continue reading
“Bronx Offers Case Study Over Future of Voting Act”
NYT: “Emerging from the bloody protests in Selma, Ala., the Voting Rights Act was initially heralded as a declaration that the federal government would no longer tolerate the open racism of the segregated South. But this narrow mandate to… Continue reading
Ari Berman on Shelby County and the Selma March
The Nation:
On Sunday, March 3, Representative John Lewis locked arms with Luci Baines Johnson and Vice President Joe Biden and marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge here. Forty-eight years earlier, on “Bloody Sunday,” Lewis was badly beaten by Alabama… Continue reading
“Will Section 5 survive? The Shelby v. Holder argument in Plain English (with audio)”
Amy Howe: “That leaves, as it so often does, the vote of Justice Kennedy. And although at least one of his questions has been interpreted as signaling support for the law, for the most part his comments and questions… Continue reading
Great DC Voting Rights Event Mar. 12–If You Are Not a Member of the Press
Carvin, Hebert, Thernstrom and Lindenbaum discuss Shelby County at GW Law, moderated by Spencer Overton. Unfortunately closed to the press.
Prof. Verna Williams on J. Scalia’s “Racial Entitlement” Remark
Here.
“In Supreme Court Debate on Voting Rights Act, a Dubious Use of Statistics”
Nate Silver: “As much as it pleases me to see statistical data introduced in the Supreme Court, the act of citing statistical factoids is not the same thing as drawing sound inferences from them. If I were the lawyer… Continue reading