Texas Tribune:
Texas’ Republican leadership has stifled voter turnout, and the public sector should do more to encourage online voting and other civic engagement, President Barack Obama said in an interview Friday with Tribune CEO and Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith.… Continue reading
Must-read NYT Richard Fausset:
The purest distillation of the nation’s wars over voting rules and legislative gerrymandering is playing out in North Carolina.
A high-profile lawsuit is taking on a voter identification law and other voting changes. There are four… Continue reading
What has happened to African-American voting rights after the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder? Can the Voting Rights Act still protect minority voting rights in states such as Alabama and Texas? What are the prospects that… Continue reading
It is not clear what internal deliberations were taking place at the 5th Circuit which took the Court more than 5 months to issue this order, but the full 5th Circuit will consider Veasey v. Abbott en banc by the … Continue reading
Spencer Woodman for Vice:
The recent proliferation of new restrictions has inflected the celebrations in Selma this week with worries of a resurgent era of voter suppression—concerns that have taken on new urgency ahead of the first presidential election since… Continue reading