Texas Attorney General Asks 5th Circuit to Keep Using Its Struck Down Voter ID Law Pending Appeal
Stay motion.
If Texas loses this stay motion, I expect they will try to get the Supreme Court to issue the stay,
Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“A judge ruled Texas’s second try at voter ID laws is illegal. She’s right.”
WaPo editorial.
“After losses on voting laws and districting, Texas turns to Supreme Court”
Bob Barnes column for WaPo:
The state of Texas is in the midst of an extraordinary losing streak in federal courts over the way it conducts elections. It is hoping the Supreme Court will come to the rescue.
In the… Continue reading
“Texas’ Discrimination Against Minority Voters May Finally Come Back To Haunt It”
HuffPost on whether Texas will be bailed back into Voting Rights Act preclearance.
“Texas House map must be redrawn, federal court says”
Texas Tribune:
Parts of the Texas House map must be redrawn ahead of the 2018 elections because lawmakers intentionally discriminated against minorities in crafting several legislative districts, federal judges ruled on Thursday.
A three-judge panel in San Antonio unanimously ruled… Continue reading
“Lawyers’ Committee Announces Settlement of Major Voting Rights Lawsuit in North Carolina”
Release:
Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee), with the law firms of Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP (Cleary Gottlieb), and Patterson Harkavy LLP announced a settlement the federal voting rights lawsuit filed on behalf… Continue reading
“Courts Have Blocked Three Discriminatory Texas Voting Laws in Eight Days”
Ari Berman for Mother Jones.
Federal Court Finds Louisiana Engaged in Intentional Racial Discrimination in At-Large Judicial Elections [Corrected]
From the 91-page opinion, also finding Voting Rights Act discriminatory effect:
District-based voting was rejected for the 32nd JDC on at least six occasions between 1997 and 2011. Taken as a whole, this timeline shows discriminatory intent. Local white officials,… Continue reading
“Thinking Like a Lawyer” Podcast on Election Law
“Federal court invalidates part of Texas congressional map”
Breaking: 3-Judge Court Issues Latest Order in Texas Redistricting Case (Congressional Seats), Finding Continued Intentional Racial Discrimination
You can find the court’s 107-page order here. From the conclusion:
In Part II, the Court concludes that the racially discriminatory intent and effects that it previously found in the 2011 plans carry over into the 2013 plans where… Continue reading
“Racial Gerrymandering and Vote Dilution: Shaw v. Reno in Doctrinal Context”
James Blumstein has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Rutgers Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
In the opening sentence of her opinion for the Court in Shaw v. Reno, the North Carolina racial gerrymander case, Justice O’Connor observed that… Continue reading
NC: “Redistricting criteria call for partisan maps, no consideration of race”
WRAL:
Map makers can use election data to achieve political goals as they redraw North Carolina’s legislative districts, but they’re forbidden from considering voters’ race under criteria approved Thursday by the House and Senate committees overseeing the process.
These rules… Continue reading
“‘You don’t seem serious,’ federal judge tells NC legislative leaders about redistricting efforts”
News & Observer:
Federal judges had pointed questions and comments Thursday for the lawyer representing North Carolina lawmakers who have not yet complied with the panel’s order to draw new districts for electing General Assembly members.
The judges want the… Continue reading