Category Archives: Supreme Court

“Is North Carolina Trying To Lose One Of The Biggest Voting Rights Cases In The Nation?”

August 15, 2016, 10:07 pmSupreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Ian Millhiser for Think Progress. Millhiser: “The whole brief is written to piss off liberals. Opening with Crawford & Shelby County? Why not Lochner & Korematsu!” Farias: This from North Carolina to #SCOTUS strikes me as rather … odd:… Continue reading

“North Carolina Took 17 Days to Ask Supreme Court to Rescue Its Voter ID Law”

August 15, 2016, 8:34 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Cristian Farias for HuffPo.

Breaking: North Carolina Files Emergency #SCOTUS Stay Request in Voting Case

August 15, 2016, 2:50 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

A full 17 days after the 4th Circuit held that challenged provisions of North Carolina’s voting law had to be blocked because they were passed with a racially discriminatory purpose, the state of North Carolina has filed this petition asking… Continue reading

“Should it be legal to have a congressional district only one party can win?”

August 15, 2016, 9:48 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

David Savage of the LAT reports on partisan gerrymandering cases working their way to #SCOTUS.

Wi Files Brief Opposing Supreme Court Review in John Doe Case

August 15, 2016, 8:53 amcampaign finance, chicanery, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

You can find the brief in opposition to cert. (which apparently contains no redacted material) at this link. There will likely be a reply filed soon, and then this will get considered by the Supreme Court in the next few… Continue reading

Breaking: WI Voter ID Plaintiffs File Emergency 7th Circuit En Banc Petition for ID Softening

August 11, 2016, 2:10 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Via Josh Gerstein comes this petition, filed very quickly by the Voting Rights plaintiffs in the Wisconsin voter id case. It asks the full 7th Circuit to reverse the stay of the affidavit softening order by the trial court… Continue reading

Where Do We Stand on the Voting Wars in NC, TX, WI and Elsewhere?

August 11, 2016, 7:46 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I try to bring it together at WaPo’s The Monkey Cage: After a notable string of voting rights decisions in the past few weeks — throwing out or weakening voter identification and other restrictive voting laws in Texas, North… Continue reading

“Quick and Dirty: The New Misreading of the Voting Rights Act”

August 11, 2016, 7:29 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The final version of Justin Levitt’s must read piece on the relationship between the VRA’s districting requirements and racial gerrymandering claims is now out from the FSU Law Review and available at SSRN. It is just in time as the… Continue reading

Final Version of My “Reining in the Purcell Principle” Article Now Available

August 8, 2016, 9:57 amelection administration, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Just in time for the 7th Circuit to consider softening Wisconsin’s voter id law and the Supreme Court to consider North Carolina’s law, here’s the final version of my paper, Richard L. Hasen, Reining in the Purcell Principle, 43 FSU … Continue reading

George Will on Trump, #SCOTUS, Kelo and Citizens United

August 8, 2016, 7:22 amcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

New column: The court has said that campaign-speech regulations can be justified to combat corruption or the appearance thereof. Trump says he has made innumerable contributions to members of both parties because, “When you give, they do whatever the… Continue reading

No, Justice Breyer Won’t Help Elect Donald Trump with a “Courtesy” Fifth Vote for Stay in NC Case

August 5, 2016, 1:24 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ian Millhiser makes the case: On its surface, Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. has very little to do with voting rights. It’s a case about the right of transgender students to use a bathroom that aligns with their… Continue reading

“Common Cause suit challenges partisan gerrymandering in NC”

August 5, 2016, 10:33 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Charlotte Observer. They’ll have to get in line. There’s already a partisan gerrymandering claim from NC pending in an appeal at the Supreme Court, and ongoing partisan gerrymandering litigation in Wisconsin and Maryland. All in an effort to shape… Continue reading

“David Prosser calls John Doe appeal weak”

August 5, 2016, 9:44 amcampaign finance, chicanery, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Wouldn’t have expected this while cert. petition pending: Newly retired Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser thinks an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court over his role in derailing the John Doe investigation into campaign financing is weak.… Continue reading