Category Archives: Supreme Court

“Court fight against Georgia voting overhaul no sure thing”

March 28, 2021, 4:12 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Mark Sherman for AP: Richard Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California at Irvine law school, said the outcome is hard to predict. “Many of the things that the bill does are in line with what other… Continue reading

“How the Supreme Court laid the path for Georgia’s new election law”

March 28, 2021, 4:07 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Joan Biskupic for CNN: Georgia’s voter restrictions were dashed into law Thursday by Republicans shaken over recent election losses and lies about fraud from former President Donald Trump, yet the measures also developed against a backdrop of US Supreme Court… Continue reading

Supreme Court Will Hear Major Case on Disclosure of Donors to Nonprofits on April 26

March 13, 2021, 7:14 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

SCOTUSBlog on the argument calendar: Americans for Prosperity v. Becerra and Thomas More Law Center v. Becerra (consolidated for one hour of oral argument on April 26): Whether a California policy that requires charities to disclose the names and addresses… Continue reading

Supreme Court, Without Comment, Rejects Final Trump Election Cert. Petition

March 8, 2021, 6:35 amfraudulent fraud squad, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Order list.

“The Supreme Court Might Kill Voting Rights—Quietly”

March 7, 2021, 3:26 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

David Gans for The Atlantic

“Supreme Court Case Could Limit Options to Fight Republican Voting Restrictions”

March 3, 2021, 11:07 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT reports.

Thoughts on Brnovich Oral Argument: Few Surprises, and Voting Rights Plaintiffs Are Likely to Lose (But Exactly How Remains Unclear)

March 2, 2021, 9:16 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I just finished listening to the two-hour argument in the Brnovich voting rights case. For background on what’s at stake and where I think things are, see this SCOTUSBlog post. Oral argument went as I expected. There was little… Continue reading

“High Noon For The Future Of The Voting Rights Act At The Supreme Court”

March 2, 2021, 6:06 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Nina Totenberg for NPR: The potential to render the Voting Rights Act nearly a dead letterIn fact, 33 states have “introduced, refiled, or carried over more than 165 restrictive laws this year,” says Myrna Pérez, director of the Voting Rights… Continue reading

Travis Crum: “Rethinking the Race or Party Question in Brnovich”

March 1, 2021, 3:11 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Here is a guest post from Travis Crum of Wash U: The Supreme Court will soon hear oral argument in Brnovich v. DNC, a major voting rights case. As relevant here, the case concerns an Arizona ballot-collection law that… Continue reading

“Supreme Court to again consider federal protections for minority voters”

February 28, 2021, 7:54 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Robert Barnes WaPo preview of the Brnovich argument.

Larry Tribe Calls Out Justice Thomas’s Trolling of Heather Gerken on Election Fraud in Recent Dissent

February 25, 2021, 6:46 amfraudulent fraud squad, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Tribe in The Hill: Justice Thomas’s solo dissent is another matter altogether. The question at hand concerned only the relationship between a state legislature and the state constitution as construed by the state’s highest court. But Thomas seized the opportunity… Continue reading

“Dissent by Justice Thomas in election case draws fire for revisiting baseless Trump fraud claims”

February 22, 2021, 3:36 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

John Fritze for USA Today.

“A partisan battle in an overreach of a case”: Minority voters are caught between the political parties at the Supreme Court, with the Voting Rights Act hanging in the balance (My SCOTUSBlog Preview of Brnovich)

February 22, 2021, 8:02 ampolitical parties, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this analysis for SCOTUSBlog. It begins: Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee is a strange voting rights case. Rather than the typical case, in which a voting rights group representing minority voters sues a state or locality for… Continue reading

Biden Administration Reverses Position Before Supreme Court in Arizona Voting Rights Act Case (Brnovich), But Does Not Say Plaintiffs Should Win

February 16, 2021, 5:05 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

From the letter: The Department has now concluded that, although it does not disagree with the conclusion in that brief that neither Arizona measure violates Section 2’s results test, the Department does not adhere to the framework for application… Continue reading