“Civil-rights group: Latino voice diminished by new maps”
News from California.
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“In E-mails, Texas GOPers Worried Feds Would Say Redistricting Map Diluted Hispanic Voting Power”
TPM reports.
Read the Cross Motions for Summary Judgment in the Kinston Section 5 VRA Case (LaRoque)
See
Plaintiffs’ MSJ motion
DOJ MSJ motion
Plaintiffs’ reply [corrected link]
DOJ’s reply is to come. Note that both Sam Bagenstos and Julie Fernandes are on the DOJ briefs.
“The State of Texas’ pre-clearance submission to DOJ on Voter ID”
Here. Is TX under Obama DOJ = Georgia under Bush DOJ? Is Texas voter id law = Georgia voter id law?
And If I Do Say So Myself Dept.
Florida SOS Kurt Browning has written Changes Improve Florida Elections. I find the following paragraph to be particularly disingenuous:
I have no reason to believe that the court’s review will be more or less favorable than the U.S. Justice… Continue reading
“NAACP Legal Defense Fund Files Voting Rights Act Challenge to Fayette County, Georgia’s At-Large Election Method”
See this press release with a link to the complaint.
“DOJ okays pieces of controversial elections law”
The uncontroversial pieces, that is, of the Fla election law.
von Spakovsky Trashes New DOJ Voting Section Hires
Here.
What would actually be useful would be to know if anyone applied for one of these jobs with conservative credentials and was turned away (as liberals were turned away when von Spakovsky had a hand in hiring). That… Continue reading
“Debate Rages Over Florida’s Election Law Review”
WMFE reports.
“Still the Struggle to Vote”
Laughlin McDonald and Laura Murphy of the ACLU have this comment on the VRA and South Carolina’s recently enacted voter ID law.
States Rights and the Voting Rights Act
Jesse Jackson, Barbara Arnwine, and Janet Mathis have this commentary in Politico for the VRA’s 46th birthday.
“Dems, GOP cite ’65 voting law in remapping debates”
AP reports here.
Voting Groups Ask DOJ to Deny Preclearance of SC Voter ID Law
See this story on this letter from the ACLU, Lawyers Committee, Brennan Center, and League of Women Voters.
“DSCC asks Justice to halt Florida voting law”
Ben Smith has this post on Politico, regarding a letter from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to DOJ’s voting rights section, asking that it deny preclearance of Florida’s recent changes to third-party voter registration, early voting, and provisional voting rules. … Continue reading