Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

“After Antifraud Crusade, a Trial Asks: Were Illegal Voters or Legal Ones the Target?”

October 26, 2023, 1:40 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Michael Wines for the NYT: As Republican candidates and their supporters increasingly focus on specious claims of rampant voter fraud, a federal trial starting in Georgia on Thursday will examine whether a key campaign to unmask illegal voters in 2020… Continue reading

“BREAKING: Judge throws out Georgia’s redistricting, orders new maps”

October 26, 2023, 9:16 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

AJC: A federal judge ruled Thursday that Georgia’s district lines must be redrawn to ensure adequate representation of Black voters in Congress and the General Assembly, finding that the state’s maps illegally weakened their political power. The decision could result… Continue reading

ELB Podcast 5:2: The Roberts Court and American Democracy (Joan Biskupic)

October 18, 2023, 4:11 pmELB Podcast, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: Is the Roberts Court shifting on its protection of voting rights? How has the addition of three Trump-appointed Justices changed the nature of the Supreme Court? Should we expect a new ethics code for Supreme Court Justices?… Continue reading

Federal District Court Finds Galveston County, Texas Redistricting Plan Violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act By Discriminating Against Black and Latino Voters; Orders Remedy for 2024 Elections

October 13, 2023, 6:56 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can find the district court’s 157-page opinion at this link.

Travis Crum: “Stopping Alabama’s Defiance of the Voting Rights Act”

October 10, 2023, 2:27 pmredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Travis Crum: Alabama is once again the frontline of the fight for voting rights. After two years of litigation, Alabama now has two Black-opportunity congressional districts. But unfortunately, there are shockingly few… Continue reading

“Court picks new Alabama congressional map that will likely flip one seat to Democrats” (and Alabama Will Stop Fighting over the Map for Purposes of the 2024 Elections) (Link to Order)

October 5, 2023, 8:22 amredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Politico: A federal court has picked Alabama’s new congressional map, which will likely result in an additional Black — and Democratic — member in the delegation. The new map came after the same panel of federal judges twice found that… Continue reading

Fifth Circuit Panel, on Party Line Vote, Delays Louisiana Voting Rights Act Congressional Redistricting Case, Potentially Pushing Any Remedy to 2026

September 28, 2023, 5:01 pmredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Michael Li with the details on what he terms a “terrible ruling:” https://twitter.com/mcpli/status/1707483620514927098

We’ve Issued a Major New Report, “24 for ’24: Urgent Recommendations in Law, Media, Politics, and Tech for Fair and Legitimate 2024 Elections”

September 13, 2023, 7:34 amabsentee ballots, election administration, election subversion risk, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights Act, voting technologyRick Hasen

Back in March, the UCLA Law Safeguarding Democracy Project held a conference, Can American Democracy Survive the 2024 Elections? Following the conference some of the participants met as an ad hoc committee to consider recommendations in law, politics, media, and… Continue reading

Justice Thomas Asks for Response from Voting Rights Plaintiffs by Sept. 19 in Alabama’s Emergency Motion to Avoid Creating Second Black Opportunity District for Congress

September 13, 2023, 7:07 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Docket.

“How the Supreme Court Should Respond to Alabama’s Defiance”

September 12, 2023, 10:22 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Kate Shaw for the NYT: Alabama’s appeal confronts the Supreme Court with a profound test. The case may appear to involve a set of technical questions about one state’s legislative map. But it is more fundamentally about whether the Supreme… Continue reading

“Alabama Asks Supreme Court to Revisit Dispute Over Congressional Map”

September 12, 2023, 7:44 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT: Alabama filed an emergency application in the Supreme Court on Monday evening, asking the justices to keep in place for now a congressional map that a lower court had found failed to comply with orders to establish a second… Continue reading

“Exclusive: How the Supreme Court’s conservatives rebuffed Alabama”

September 8, 2023, 11:05 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Must-read Joan Biskupic report for CNN: When the Supreme Court considered the challenge to an Alabama congressional map that shortchanged the state’s Black voters, liberal justices expected the conservative majority to side with Alabama – if not gut the 1965… Continue reading

Breaking: Unanimous 3-Judge Federal Court Holds Alabama Defied Supreme Court in Allen v. Milligan, Must Draw Another Minority Opportunity Congressional District

September 5, 2023, 7:33 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can find the unanimous, 217-page opinion at this link. The Court castigated Alabama both for its failure to obey the Supreme Court’s order and for its delay: We have reached these conclusions only after conducting an exhaustive analysis of… Continue reading

Parsons, Penrose, and Carroll: “Pico & Proportional Ranked Choice Voting”

August 31, 2023, 6:56 amalternative voting systems, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from G. Michael Parsons (Senior Legal Fellow, FairVote), Drew Penrose (Policy Consultant, FairVote), and Terrance Carroll (Senior Fellow for Voting and Democracy, FairVote): The California Supreme Court’s decision in Pico Neighborhood Association v. City … Continue reading