Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

NYT Editorial Relies on Morgan Kousser Voting Rights Data to Criticize #SCOTUS

April 19, 2015, 6:40 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Editorial: The chief justice’s destructive cure for this was to throw out the formulaCongress devised in 1965 that required all or parts of 16 states with long histories of overt racial discrimination in voting, most in the South,… Continue reading

“Texas Photo ID Law Blocks Legitimate Voters”

April 16, 2015, 2:44 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Jonathan Brater writes for the Brennan Center.

More on Support for Literacy Tests Etc.

April 16, 2015, 6:55 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

In this post, I asked if anyone besides Ann Coulter on the national political stage has voiced support for literacy tests in recent years. Thanks to those who passed on more information. The Brad Blog reports that Tom Tancredo… Continue reading

Ann Coulter Reaffirms Her Support for Literacy Tests

April 15, 2015, 12:26 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Media Matters has the video. In my upcoming book, I was looking to find examples of modern politicians or pundits (of either party) supporting (fairly applied) literacy tests. Coulter was the only person I found, but the reference… Continue reading

“Language Accommodations and Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act: Reporting Requirements as a Potential Solution to the Compliance Gap”

April 15, 2015, 6:35 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Matthew Higgins has written this excellent student note for the Stanford Law Review. Here is the abstract: Certain voters with limited English proficiency (LEP) are afforded affirmative accommodations under section 203 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Section 203’s provisions,… Continue reading

“Hillary Clinton has been outspoken on voting rights”

April 14, 2015, 7:52 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Zack Roth for MSNBC.

“Opinion: Fayette at-large voting discriminates”

April 12, 2015, 1:28 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Leah Aden oped in the AJC.

“Do the Facts of Voting Rights Support Chief Justice Roberts’s Opinion in Shelby County?”

April 12, 2015, 1:26 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Looks like a major empirical paper out from Morgan Kousser (forthcoming, Transatlanica). Here is the abstract: In June, 2013, a 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court brought to an abrupt and likely permanent end the most important provision of… Continue reading

“Guest Blog: Janai Nelson, Preserving the Nuance of a Suspended Section 5”

April 8, 2015, 7:34 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Here, at Hamilton and Griffin on rights.

No Surprise: #SCOTUS Refuses to Hear North Carolina Voting Case

April 6, 2015, 7:26 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Here is the order list and an AP report. The order is no surprise as the issue was whether the 4th Circuit erred in putting two parts of North Carolina’s strict voting law on hold for the 2014 elections,… Continue reading

House Republicans to Push Bill Declaring “End to Racism” in U.S.

April 1, 2015, 7:58 amelection law "humor", Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

WaPo: “In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision striking down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act, a group of Southern House Republicans have put forward a congressional resolution declaring that ‘racism is a thing of the… Continue reading

Nick Stephanopoulos on the Alabama Redistricting Case

March 31, 2015, 7:15 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Here is a guest blog post from Nick Stephanopoulos: The rapidly congealing conventional wisdom is that last week’s Alabama redistricting case was no big deal. And the conventional wisdom is mostly right. The case confirmed the prevailing understanding of… Continue reading