Category Archives: Department of Justice
“The Supreme Court’s Gerrymandering Conundrum: Did Alabama legislators redraw district lines to hurt Democrats or to disenfranchise black voters?”
I have written this new piece for Slate. It begins:
As Democrats struggled last week to salvage control of the Senate, they pushed to get as many black voters to the polls as possible, especially in the South. It’s… Continue reading
“Justice Department To Monitor Tuesday’s Elections In 18 States”
Chris Geidner reports for BuzzFeed.
“What’s Ahead in Texas Voter ID Battle”
Tim Eaton for the Austin-American Statesman:
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott won the most recent round in the fight to require voters to show valid photo identification to cast ballots, but a potentially much bigger fight looms beyond Tuesday.
Abbott’s… Continue reading
“Devising a Standard for Section 3: Post-Shelby County Voting Rights Litigation”
Roseann Romano, adding to a growing list of important student notes on bail-in, for the Iowa Law Review:
In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which dismantled the modern voting rights enforcement regime by… Continue reading
President Obama Talks Voting Rights and Fraud With Jeffrey Toobin
A part of this fascinating New Yorker piece:
The subject of voting rights has largely been thrust upon Obama by a conservative judiciary. “You look at something like the Voting Rights Act, which was uncontroversial from a legal point… Continue reading
AG Holder on Texas and Voter ID
Of course, this was from this morning.
“Rethinking District of Columbia Venue in Voting Rights Preclearance Actions”
Michael Solimine has written this Essay for the Georgetown Law Journal. Here is the beginning:
In Shelby County v. Holder the Supreme Court held that the preclearance provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) was unconstitutional as presently constituted. … Continue reading
“Remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder at the Congressional Black Caucus Panel Discussion on Voting Rights”
A snippet:
As you’re discussing, through the unrelenting efforts of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division – under the leadership of Acting Assistant Attorney General Molly Moran, from whom you’ll be hearing this afternoon – my colleagues and I… Continue reading
“Issa accuses Holder spokesman of attempting to ‘conspire’ with Democrats on IRS documents”
WaPo:
Attorney General Eric Holder’s communications director is being accused of calling the House Oversight Committee Republican staff and asking for help spinning a story. The twist? The GOP staff alleges that Holder’s spokesman thought he was talking to… Continue reading
“Texas Voter ID Trial Begins”
“Testimony Begins in Trial Over Texas Voter ID Law”
More on Texas’s Argument DOJ Too Partisan to Enforce Voting Rights Act
In an earlier post, I noted this filing of the state of Texas in the voter id case (particularly pages 13-23), raising an affirmative defense to DOJ’s claims that Texas’s voter id law violates section 2 of the Voting Rights… Continue reading
Texas’s Unusual Defense in Voter ID Case: DOJ is Too Partisan
A reader alerted me to this filing of the state of Texas in the voter id case (particularly pages 13-23), raising an affirmative defense to DOJ’s claims that Texas’s voter id law violates section 2 of the Voting Rights Act… Continue reading