For a bit of background on the district at issue is NAMUDNO, check out Wrestling with Muds to Pin Down the Truth about Special Districts by Sara Bronin (Fordham Law Review). From the SSRN abstract: ederal, state, and local governments… Continue reading

We could know as early as this afternoon whether the Supreme Court will note probable jurisdiction and vote to hear the appeal in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Mukasey, considering the question whether the renewed section… Continue reading

See here.

You can read it here. The government wants a summary affirmance. More at SCOTUSblog.

The docket says.

Nate’s Yale Law Journal article on the renewed VRA is now available. Ellen Katz has written this commentary and Rick Pildes has written this commentary. These are all absolute must-reads. Rick P.’s piece really captures the exasperation I felt… Continue reading

Texas Weekly has this article ($) on the NAMDUNO VRA case currently being considered by a three-judge panel, and eventually headed to the Supreme Court. In the article, Edward Blum, the main force behind the suit, says: “‘We’re not looking… Continue reading

The Hill offers this report on the NAMUDNO oral argument. A snippet: “A GOP source close to the reauthorization contended that some Section 5 opponents chose to vote in favor of the bill with the belief that it would be… Continue reading

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AP offers this report on today’s argument in the NAMUDNO case. The lower court panel sounds very likely to reject plaintiff’s constitutional attack on the renewed section 5 of the VRA. For what it is worth, here is what I… Continue reading

You can find it here. If I get links to the other briefs, I’ll update this post with those links. UPDATE Defendant-Intervenors’ Opposition to Plaintiffs’ Summary Judgment motion is here.

James Thomas Tucker has written The Politics of Persuasion: Passage of the Voting Rights Act Reauthorization of 2006. This article was originally printed in the Notre Dame Journal of Legislation, 33 N.D. J.Legis. 205 (2007), and is reposted here… Continue reading

Nate Persily’s must-read article on VRA renewal (forthcoming Yale L.J. October 2007) is now posted here on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article, forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, describes the legislative history surrounding the 2006 reauthorization of the… Continue reading

See here at AEI. A snippet: “So, armed with the Ashcroft fix, how much damage could a Democratic controlled Justice Department do to Republican hopes after the next census? Quite a bit it turns out. Today there are 102 congressional… Continue reading