Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

Jeffrey Rosen NYT Book Review of Berman Voting Rights Book

August 25, 2015, 9:11 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

It concludes with a note on race and party: In 2014, the first election since 1965 without the preclearance protections of the Voting Rights Act, voters in 14 states faced new voting restrictions adopted by mostly Republican legislatures, including a… Continue reading

“What is Abridgment?: A Critique of Two Section Twos”

August 25, 2015, 7:15 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Franita Tolson has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Alabama Law Review). Here is the abstract: Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which allows Congress to reduce a state’s delegation in the House of Representatives if the state abridges the… Continue reading

“Fairness and Accountability Sought for Terrebonne Parish 32nd Judicial District Court Voters”

August 24, 2015, 8:35 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Press release: On Friday, August 21, lawyers for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), and cooperating Louisiana attorney, Ronald L. Wilson, filed papers in Terrebonne Parish Branch NAACP, et al. v. Jindal, et al., a challenge under the… Continue reading

“Political Flyer Circulated In Detroit Suburb: ‘Let’s Get The Blacks Out'”

August 24, 2015, 7:13 pmvoting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

With Trayvon Martin on the back. Nice touch, Klan.

Dahlia Lithwick Talks Voting Rights with Ari Berman in Slate Amicus Podcast

August 24, 2015, 9:49 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Listen.

“DOJ to 5th Circuit: Texas voter ID law needs to be fixed ASAP”

August 22, 2015, 6:00 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

San Antonio Express News: The Obama administration and several civil rights groups are urging a federal appeals court to fast track the process of temporarily fixing Texas’ voter ID law in time for the upcoming Nov. 3 elections. In court… Continue reading

“Election Law: Redistricting, Gerrymandering, and Civil Rights”

August 21, 2015, 8:04 amredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Legal Talk Network: Legal Talk Network producer Laurence Colletti interviews Benjamin Griffith, Robert Heath, Nancy Abudu, Tanya Clay House, and Nicole Austin-Hillery about election law at the 2015 American Bar Association Annual Meeting. The guests explain the history of… Continue reading

“The battle for voting rights continues”

August 20, 2015, 7:37 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

E.J. Dionne: This month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled that Texas’s voter ID law “has a discriminatory effect” and amounted to a poll tax. But it also sent the case back to a lower-court… Continue reading

“Legal challenge to N.C. voter ID law could be settled, documents say”

August 18, 2015, 9:24 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Woah: But there may be room for compromise, according to a joint status report that plaintiffs filed Monday. In the report, they said “Plaintiffs’ pending photo ID claims may be able to be resolved through discussion and negotiations with… Continue reading

Jim Rutenberg Interviews Ari Berman on the Voting Rights Act at 50

August 17, 2015, 7:37 pmThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Worth your time.

Very Interesting Amicus Brief in Evenwel Case from City of Yakima, WA

August 16, 2015, 4:52 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can read the brief here. The brief shows the complex interaction of the one person, one vote rule and the requirements to redistrict under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act when there is a large non-citizen population.

“Editorial: Voter ID laws, already bogus, ruled racist and discriminatory.”

August 14, 2015, 3:19 pmThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial, which after correction still gets Justin Levitt‘s affiliation wrong.

“Obama praises lead plaintiff in NC voting-rights lawsuit”

August 14, 2015, 11:32 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

News & Observer: Rosanell Eaton, a 94-year-old Franklin County resident who had to recite the preamble to the U.S. Constitution to three county registrars in the 1940s to be eligible to vote, got a special mention this week from the… Continue reading