Category Archives: Supreme Court

“Justices Act on Voting Rights and Cellphone Privacy”

June 5, 2017, 8:41 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Adam Liptak for the NYT: The Supreme Court dealt North Carolina a setback on Monday in a voting rights case for the third time in recent weeks, affirming a decision that struck down many state legislative districts for relying too… Continue reading

“Constitutional Connections: Race, partisan gerrymandering and the Constitution”

June 4, 2017, 3:12 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

John Greabe writes on Cooper v. Harris for the Concord Monitor.

Matt Ford on Cert. Grant in Ohio NVRA Case

May 31, 2017, 8:21 pmNVRA (motor voter), Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Here is the Atlantic.

“SCOTUS’s Last Chance to Rein in Partisan Gerrymandering?”

May 31, 2017, 8:00 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Kimberly Robinson for Bloomberg BNA: The U.S. Supreme Court could radically change how states draw their districts for federal and state elections as Republicans and Democrats are preparing to battle over the next redistricting cycle. More than 30 years ago,… Continue reading

“PLF asks Supreme Court to invalidate Minnesota dress code for voters”

May 31, 2017, 7:11 amcampaigns, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Pacific Legal Foundation: On Election Day, millions of Americans trek to polling places in all corners of this Nation. On the way to casting their vote, many proudly wear shirts, buttons, and badges of organizations that share their views. Union… Continue reading

Coverage of Ohio Voter Purge Cert Grant

May 31, 2017, 7:09 amNVRA (motor voter), Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Greg Stohr Bob Barnes Ari Berman Doug Chapin

“Supreme Court’s next step on gerrymandering could be its biggest yet”

May 30, 2017, 7:39 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Ariane de Vogue for CNN.

“Rebuked Twice by Supreme Court, North Carolina Republicans Are Unabashed”

May 30, 2017, 7:37 amredistricting, Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

NY Times: In Washington, efforts by this state’s Republicans to cement their political dominance have taken a drubbing this month. On May 15, the Supreme Court struck down a North Carolina elections law that a federal appeals court said had… Continue reading

Breaking: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Ohio Motor-Voter Case; Remands NC Redistricting Case

May 30, 2017, 7:20 amNVRA (motor voter), redistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

(Apologies for the delay, as ELB was down this morning.) After being relisted only once, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Husted v. A.Philip Randolph Institute from the Sixth Circuit. The question presented is: “Whether 52 U.S.C. § 20507… Continue reading

What are all these NC redistricting cases?

May 26, 2017, 2:24 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Uncategorized, Voting Rights ActJustin Levitt

There are a bunch of North Carolina redistricting cases stacked up at the moment. A few of these are in front of the Supreme Court, and could move as early as Tuesday. Since we just had a North Carolina redistricting… Continue reading

“The Shifting Ground of Redistricting Law”

May 24, 2017, 12:36 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Very important Chris Elmendorf post at Balkinization, with a more negative view of Cooper v. Harris: How then is a state to comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which, as noted above, has long required states to… Continue reading

Anita Earls: “Bringing sanity to racial-gerrymandering jurisprudence”

May 24, 2017, 8:27 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Important Anita Earls in the SCOTUSBlog symposium on Cooper v. Harris: Although not breaking new ground, the court’s post-2010 census round of racial gerrymandering cases make clear that while not every district drawn as a majority-black or majority-Latino district is… Continue reading