“Stacey Abrams gives a graduate school class on voter suppression”
Jennifer Rubin WaPo column.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Texas Lawmakers Consider Stiff Penalties For Voting Crimes”
Stacey Abrams Reiterates Language of Georgia Governor’s Election Being “Stolen”
From her speech via Axios:
So on November 6, I said at the podium we were not going to declare anything till every vote was counted. And on November 16, I decided to acknowledge the states of the election… Continue reading
“Another GOP Voter Fraud Claim Falls Apart, and Democrats See an Opening”
Eliza Newlin Carney:
The latest overblown Republican claims of voter fraud have been thoroughly debunked, now that a federal judge has blocked a massive voter purge in Texas, and accused GOP election officials there of creating a “mess” that intimidated… Continue reading
“The Elephant in the Room: Intentional Voter Suppression”
Lisa Manheim and Elizabeth Porter have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Supreme Court Review . Here is the abstract:
Since its inception, the Roberts Court has acquiesced in—and at times even abetted—the attempts of many states to make it… Continue reading
Texas: “Deal to end lawsuits over voter purge program almost done”
San Antonio Express News:
The state of Texas is set to end a program to purge voters it claimed were noncitizens in order to settle lawsuits brought by civil rights groups over the botched plan.A deal was about “99… Continue reading
“How Trump Could Lose the Election and Remain President”
Daniel Block in Washington Monthly.
“Why This Voting Expert Is Really Optimistic About The Future Of Voting Rights”
HuffPost:
At a moment when the national conversation about voting rights is wrapped up in brutal partisan warfare, Josh Douglas, a law professor at the University of Kentucky who focuses on election law, sees hope. For Douglas, that optimism… Continue reading
“U.S. House committee investigating Texas voter roll review”
Texas Tribune:
The U.S. House’s main investigative committee has opened an inquiry into the Texas secretary of state’s review of the voter rolls for supposed noncitizens.In letters sent to top Texas officials on Thursday, U.S. Reps. Elijah Cummings, the… Continue reading
“Judge Suggests Partial Way Out Of Lawsuit Over ‘Flawed’ Texas Voter Fraud List”
Tierney Sneed reports for TPM.
Proportionality and the Oral Arguments — Part II
Yesterday, Nick offered some thoughts on the arguments in the Rucho and Benisek partisan gerrymandering cases, and several Justices’ fixation on whether all of this litigation is just a Trojan horse for achieving proportional representation. Nick’s post highlights the fact… Continue reading
“Civil Rights Groups Call ‘Election Integrity’ Bill a ‘Dangerous New Assault on Voting Rights in Texas’”
Texas Observer:
A coalition of civil rights groups is warning that a new GOP bill winding its way through the Texas Legislature imposes substantial and unnecessary burdens on voters.Among other provisions, Senate Bill 9, an omnibus “election integrity” bill… Continue reading
Video of Symposium: “Barriers at the Ballot Box: Protecting or Limiting the Core of the American Identity?”
Tenth Circuit Panel in Oral Argument in Fish v. Schwab (was: Fish v. Kobach) Seems Skeptical of Kansas’s Attempt to Reverse District Court’s Block of Kansas’s Documentary Proof of Citizenship Law
You can listen to the oral argument here.
With the caveat that one never knows how to read oral argument, and judges can change their minds before issuing an opinion, here are some thoughts:
The judges seemed to believe… Continue reading