“The Death of the Southern White Democrat Hurts African-Americans the Most”
Jason Zengerle writes for TNR.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
NYT Room for Debate: Should Voting in An Election Be A Constitutional Right?
You can read the forum here.
Guarantee Basic Principles
KEITH ELLISON AND MARK POCAN, CONGRESSMEN
Take politicians in the nearly 10,000 voting jurisdictions out of the business of deciding who can vote and which votes count.
Enforce Existing Rights, … Continue reading
“To Guarantee Voting Rights, Enforce the Laws We Have”
This is my contribution to the NYT Room for Debate forum on a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote. It concludes:
Notably Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy did not join in Justice Alito’s troubling dissent (joined by Justices… Continue reading
Must-Read of the Day
Joey Fishkin on voting rights and Texas’s voter id law.
“Justice Department To Monitor Tuesday’s Elections In 18 States”
Chris Geidner reports for BuzzFeed.
Justice Ginsburg Makes Technical Change to Her North Carolina Voting Dissent
You can see the minor change in this tweet by SCOTUS_Servo.
“Wilson Elser, Bingham Win Voting Help For Native Alaskans”
“What’s Ahead in Texas Voter ID Battle”
Tim Eaton for the Austin-American Statesman:
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott won the most recent round in the fight to require voters to show valid photo identification to cast ballots, but a potentially much bigger fight looms beyond Tuesday.
Abbott’s… Continue reading
“In Alabama, race again at heart of voting rights debate — but with twist”
Bob Barnes preview of the Alabama SCOTUS redistricting case.
My preview of the case for SCOTUSBlog is here.
“Georgia, North Carolina midterms: Race matters”
“Devising a Standard for Section 3: Post-Shelby County Voting Rights Litigation”
Roseann Romano, adding to a growing list of important student notes on bail-in, for the Iowa Law Review:
In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which dismantled the modern voting rights enforcement regime by… Continue reading
ACS Briefing on Alabama Redistricting Cases
November 10 (two days before argument). Details and RSVP.
Read the Post-Trial Briefs in the Texas Redistricting Cases
Here.
SCOTUS Adds Argument Time in Alabama Redistricting Case for Federal Government
See this Order. As I explained in my SCOTUSBlog preview posted yesterday, Argument preview: Racial gerrymandering, partisan politics, and the future of the Voting Rights Act, the government filed a brief supporting neither side in this case:
Beneath… Continue reading