AP reports. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Department of Justice
Bloomberg on Tom Perez. … Continue reading
Texas SG Greg Abbott has written this oped. … Continue reading
Josh Gerstein reports. … Continue reading
Here. Reading it gives no inkling of turmoil in the voting section. Update: Mother Jones: The Civil Rights Division is Kicking Butt, Says the Civil Rights Division … Continue reading
Washington Examiner OpEd by former DOJ lawyers Christopher Coates and J. Christian Adams: Senators of both parties should be reluctant to confirm nominee Thomas E. Perez as Labor secretary because he has provided inaccurate testimony under oath. The explosive report … Continue reading
That’s the suggestion of this Roll Call report. Either Perez gets confirmed or Republicans further alienate potential Latino voters by attacking him. Weigel: Let’s Reach Out to Swing Voters by Resurrecting the New Black Panther Case … Continue reading
I missed this NPR report from last week. … Continue reading
I have written this commentary for Slate. It begins: A long-awaited report from the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General issued last week sheds considerable light on the battles within the department’s voting section during the Bush and … Continue reading
Andrew Cohen blogs. … Continue reading
Josh Gerstein explores whether the IG report on the DOJ voting section will affect Tom Perez’s expected nomination to be Secretary of Labor. … Continue reading
That’s Adam Serwer’s reading of the report, but not mine. (The issue is not whether Obama DOJ in fact was a better steward, but rather what did the IG conclude.) Update: Adam Serwer clarifies that this is his opinion of … Continue reading
Josh Gerstein does a great job describing key points in the IG report. … Continue reading
You can now read A Review of the Operations of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division put out by the DOJ Office of the Inspector General. I will provide more comments when I’ve had a chance to read … Continue reading
Roll Call reports. … Continue reading
“He’ll be a controversial nominee.” —An unnamed Democratic strategist, quoted by the LA Times on the nomination of Tom Perez to be labor secretary. Judging from this Powerline post, there could well be complaints from the right. … Continue reading
Bloomberg: “President Barack Obama is close to choosing Thomas Perez, currently the assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights, to be labor secretary, according to two people familiar with the matter.” … Continue reading
John Fund at National Review. … Continue reading
See this post at Inside Political Law. … Continue reading
HuffPo’s Ryan J. Reilly sits down with Tom Perez and asks him if DOJ is making contingency plans if Section 5 is struck down. … Continue reading
Here’s the docket. … Continue reading
Weekly Standard cover story. … Continue reading
In cooperation with Reuters Opinion, I have organized an online symposium on what should happen if the Supreme Court strikes down section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, an issue the Court is considering in Shelby County v. Holder, a … Continue reading
The Daily Caller‘s Jim Treacher writes. … Continue reading
I’ve written this Jurisprudence essay for Slate. It begins: Odds are, the Supreme Court will strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act after hearing a case from Alabama that will be argued next month. If the part … Continue reading
Gannett reports: “South Carolina spent $3.5 million defending its voter identification law against government allegations of discrimination, while other states with similar laws faced no such opposition, the state’s top attorney said recently in court papers.The discrepancy proves the 1965 … Continue reading
USA Today reports. … Continue reading
Waiting on Shelby County? It wouldn’t surprise me. It would be a lot of work to decide the Texas redistricting case, and the case would be moot if the Supreme Court strikes down section 5 of the VRA first in … Continue reading
Here, in the New Yorker. … Continue reading
The State: “It cost South Carolina $3.5 million to sue the federal government over the state’s voter ID law – but the federal government will have to pay some of that bill. Late Friday, a court ruled that because South … Continue reading
In response to my January 3 post, Texas Remarkably Fails to Mention in Amicus Brief Against Voting Rights Act That Court Found It Engaged in Purposeful Racial Discrimination in Voting Last Year, Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell sends along the … Continue reading
Ilya Shapiro blogs. … Continue reading
A remarkable omission in the Texas amicus brief in the Shelby County voting rights case before the Supreme Court: there’s all this talk about how burdensome the law is in relation to the DOJ fight over Texas’s voter identification law. … Continue reading
Via the Project on Fair Representation (representing Shelby County): Amicus Briefs Alabama Alaska American Unity Legal Defense Fund Arizona, Georgia, South Carolina and South Dakota Cato Institute Former Government Officials John Nix, Anthony Cuomo and Dr. Abigail Thernstrom Judicial Education … Continue reading
Ryan Reilly reports for HuffPo. … Continue reading
Press release: “The State of New Hampshire and the United States Attorney General reached an agreement today that would grant a bailout for the ten towns and townships in the State that are subject to the preclearance requirements of the … Continue reading
Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSBlog: “The time may be short for the Supreme Court to act on the state of Texas’s power to impose a new voter photo ID law, but the state nevertheless plans to pursue a prompt appeal in … Continue reading
Texas Redistricting has analysis and the order. … Continue reading
The Palm Beach Post reports. … Continue reading
NPR’s Tell Me More reports. … Continue reading
The National Law Journal reports. … Continue reading
You can read the remarks from the GW conference here (via Palm Beach Post’s Feds Propose Voting Changes). … Continue reading
The Huffington Post reports on Tom Perez’s keynote speech at today’s spectacular GW election law conference. See also Election Lawyers See Bleak Future for Voting Rights Act at TPM. … Continue reading
NYT reports. … Continue reading
Andrew Cohen blogs at The Atlantic. … Continue reading
I have posted the petition, government opposition and reply. For those who have been following the issue, there’s a question of mootness presented in this petition which is not present in the Shelby County case. My guess is that Shelby … Continue reading
WaPo reports. … Continue reading
You can find the opinion at this link. Here’s Judge Kavanaugh’s summary paragraph: In short, Act R54 allows citizens with non-photo voter registration cards to still vote without a photo ID so long as they state the reason for not … Continue reading
Reuters reports. … Continue reading
AP reports. … Continue reading