Supreme Court to Consider WI Voter ID Cert Petition at March 20 Conference
Docket.
The North Carolina case is a bit further behind, with the opposition brief from the League of Women Voters due today.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
Read the DOJ’s 5th Circuit Brief in the Texas Voter ID Case
“Student Voting Rights Case Filed in TN”
Release:
A federal lawsuit was filed today in the U.S. District Court in Nashville challenging Tennessee’s voter ID law as violating the voting rights of Tennessee college and university students. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a student… Continue reading
“Fifth Circuit Should Uphold Ruling Striking Down Texas’s Discriminatory Photo ID Law”
Brennan Center press release:
Texas’s strict photo ID law violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and was passed by the Texas Legislature with intent to discriminate, argues a brief filed todayin the Fifth Circuit Court of… Continue reading
“Texas Voters Urge Fifth Circuit to Uphold Ruling Striking Down Texas Voter Photo ID Law”
Release:
Today in Veasey v. Abbott, attorneys at the Campaign Legal Center, who serve as co-counsel for plaintiffs Congressman Marc Veasey, LULAC, and a group of Texas voters, filed a brief urging the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to… Continue reading
“Election panel GOP wants to eliminate is back in action”
“Proportional Voting Through the Elections Clause: Protecting Voting Rights Post-Shelby County”
Conner Johnston has written this student note for the UCLA Law Review.
Read the State Court Order Requiring NC Voter ID Case to Go to Trial
Here.
Commentary from Robbin Stewart.
“Wake judge allows case on voter ID law to proceed to trial”
News and Observer:
A Wake County judge has refused to dismiss a challenge to North Carolina’s voter ID law, saying in a ruling issued Friday that most of the claims in the lawsuit are strong enough to take to… Continue reading
“The Next Attack on Voting Rights; And why Democrats should fight for a constitutional right-to-vote amendment.”
Jamelle Bouie for Slate.
WI Voter ID Opponents File #SCOTUS Reply to Get Court to Take Case
You can read the short reply here. The reply makes a good and important timing point:
This case is the only vehicle that guarantees the Court an opportunity to address the constitutional and statutory questions surrounding restrictive voter ID … Continue reading
“Bousquet: Gov. Rick Scott cuts state losses in long voting fight”
Live Tweet of Attempt to Get Voter ID in RI
Here.
WI Supreme Court Candidate Writes OpEd in Favor of Voter ID
It ends like this:
Until the U.S. Supreme Court acts, Wisconsin must take every voter at his or her word that they are who they say they are. The issue of free and fair elections is one which transcends political… Continue reading