“The GOP is running its anti-abortion playbook against voting rights — and it’s working”
Ian Millhiser for Think Progress.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
Talking Voting Rights after Shelby County, Especially NC Cert Denial, in Daily Journal Podcast
Michael Malbin Reviews Mutch, La Raja and Schaffner, and Hasen Books on Campaign Finance after Citizens United
Thoughtful Michael Malbin book review essay in Tulsa Law Review‘s book review issue.
Bauer on Supreme Court Cert. Denial of Hawaii Open Primary Case
“U.S. For Voting Rights Advocates, Court Decision Is ‘Temporary Victory’”
Michael Wines in the NYT:
It seemed like an important victory for voting rights advocates on Monday when the Supreme Court declined to reconsider an appellate decision striking down North Carolina’s restrictive voting law. But those who follow the arcana… Continue reading
“New Report: Extreme Partisan Maps Account for 16-17 Republican Seats in Congress”
Release:
The 2018 midterms will be fiercely fought, with a focus on control of the U.S. House after years of Republican dominance. At the same time, the U.S. Supreme Court will likely hear a challenge to partisan gerrymandering in Gill… Continue reading
“Supreme Court order unlikely to deter voting restrictions”
Mark Sherman for the AP:
The Supreme Court’s refusal to breathe new life into North Carolina’s sweeping voter identification law might be just a temporary victory for civil rights groups.
Republican-led states are continuing to enact new voter ID measures… Continue reading
The Texas Redistricting Cases are Likely the Next Big Voting Cases to Come to the Supreme Court
With the North Carolina voting case gone, I’ve seen some suggestions that the Texas voter id case is the next big voting rights case to make it to SCOTUS.
I don’t think that’s right. That case won’t be decided… Continue reading
Why Did the Chief Justice Write Separately in North Carolina and Texas Voting Cases?
Today Chief Justice Roberts wrote separately in connection with the Supreme Court decision not to hear the North Carolina voting case, underlining the procedural irregularities of the case and noting it was not a decision on the merits.
The Chief… Continue reading
“Despite today’s Supreme Court ruling, the future looks grim for voting rights”
Paul Waldman:
And I promise you that if the Supreme Court upholds the Texas law, we’ll see just what we saw after the court took a knife to the Voting Rights Act: a rush to enact new restrictions in time… Continue reading
“When Does Political Gerrymandering Cross a Constitutional Line?”
New Adam Liptak NYT Sidebar column:
The Supreme Court has never struck down an election map on the ground that it was drawn to make sure one political party would win an outsize number of seats. But it has… Continue reading
Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court Denies Cert. in North Carolina Voting Case; Chief Justice Issues Statement
Today the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a Fourth Circuit decision holding that a North Carolina voting law (one I’ve called the strictest set of voting rules rolled into one law passed since at least the passage… Continue reading
“Is the Supreme Court about to give state and local political parties a boost?”
Brad Smith in Wash. Examiner:
Hardest hit are state and local parties. As part of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance “reform” of 2002, virtually everything these local parties do was brought into the web of federal regulation, and their sources of… Continue reading