“Could Texas’ Redistricting Leave Latinos Behind?”
NPR offers this report.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“Redistricting Battle Coming in Texas; Justice Department to Lay Out Decision on Legality of New Map”
Roll Call reports.
Read the Letter Opposing Preclearance of the Texas Voter ID Law from Brennan Center for Justice, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the Texas State Conference of the NAACP
Here.
A City Tries to Use Voting Rights Act to Delay a Recall Election
Fascinating. [Note this post has been corrected. It initially suggested a section 5, rather than section 2, claim.]
“Texas voter ID law in federal hands as groups file papers”
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.
Alabama Bypassing DOJ in Favor of Court Seeking Preclearance of Redistricting Plan
The pattern continues of Republicans in covered jurisdictions not trusting the Obama Administration’s DOJ on Voting Rights Act preclearance of controversial redistricting plans.
“Majority minority congressional district on the table in redistricting”
News from Washington State.
“LULAC also asks to join DC pre-clearance suit”
Texas Redistricting reports.
Will the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors Deadlock on a Redistricting Plan?
Looking like that’s a real possibility.
Thought of the Day
If Wisconsin were subject to preclearance under section 5 of the VRA, this piece of evidence could have well led DOJ to reject Wisconsin’s new voter i.d. law.
But only certain states covered under this part of the VRA (including,… Continue reading
“LDF Moves to Intervene on behalf of Florida NAACP and African-American Voters in Florida Voting Rights Case”
See this press release.
“Arizona’s Case Against the Voting Rights Act”
Garrett Epps reports.
“Legal Battles Loom In Fight Over Voter ID Laws”
“Reinventing Sovereignty?: Federalism as a Constraint on the Voting Rights Act”
Franita Tolson has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The Framers of the United States Constitution wrote the Elections Clause to address concerns that the states would fail to call congressional elections and weaken the already fragile… Continue reading