Category Archives: Supreme Court
Justice Ginsburg Makes Technical Change to Her North Carolina Voting Dissent
You can see the minor change in this tweet by SCOTUS_Servo.
“In Alabama, race again at heart of voting rights debate — but with twist”
Bob Barnes preview of the Alabama SCOTUS redistricting case.
My preview of the case for SCOTUSBlog is here.
“The Unbearable Lightness of Zero Deviation”
A. J. Pate, who has been involved in redistricting efforts for decades, has written this guest post on the question whether zero deviation in population for congressional districts is constitutionally compelled:
Zero deviation and divided census tracts are the identifying… Continue reading
Interview with Dahlia Lithwick: “Amicus: Ballot Box Special”
In this podcast, I sit down with Dahlia Lithwick to talk about the bubbling election law disputes, including four which made it to the Supreme Court such as Texas’s controversial voter id case.
And here’s more information about Dahlia’s regular … Continue reading
ACS Briefing on Alabama Redistricting Cases
November 10 (two days before argument). Details and RSVP.
SCOTUS Adds Argument Time in Alabama Redistricting Case for Federal Government
See this Order. As I explained in my SCOTUSBlog preview posted yesterday, Argument preview: Racial gerrymandering, partisan politics, and the future of the Voting Rights Act, the government filed a brief supporting neither side in this case:
Beneath… Continue reading
“State Constitutional First Principles in Challenging the Texas Voter Photo Identification Law”
Charles Rhodes at Jurist.
“Danger Zone: A Supreme Court Misstep On Voting Rights”
“Shelby and Section 3: Pulling the Voting Rights Act’s Pocket Trigger to Protect Voting Rights After Shelby County v. Holder”
Paul Wiley has written this very (and timely, given Texas) important student note for the Washington and Lee Law Review. From the Introduction:
One of those portions of the Voting Rights Act that remained untouched by Shelby County is §… Continue reading
Garrett Epps on Racial and Partisan Discrimination in Texas Voter ID Case
Well worth the read.
Justice Ginsburg Gives More Insight Into Her Texas Voter ID Dissent, and Its Small Error
I suggested in this Slate piece that Justice Ginsburg decided to pull an all nighter to write her dissent as a “5 am wake up call” on the issue of voting rights. Now comes some confirmation.
Jess Bravin:… Continue reading
“Born and raised’ Texans forced to prove identities under new voter ID law”
Extensive report in The Guardian.
“Freedom Summer, 2015”
Read Jeff Toobin in the New Yorker on the recent SCOTUS WI and TX voting case orders.