“The Stunning Chutzpah Of North Carolina’s Voter Suppression Attorneys”
Ian Millhiser tears apart Paul Clement’s brief.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
While NC Tells #SCOTUS Not Too Late to Implement Voter ID This Election, It Has Stopped Educating Voters About It
News and Observer:
State and county election officials are already adjusting their plans to comply with the 4th Circuit ruling. Several county election boards have adopted new schedules for early voting; the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections held a meeting… Continue reading
“Mecklenburg elections board cuts hours for early voting”
Why is North Carolina afraid of black people voting?
Despite pleas not to curtail early voting, Mecklenburg County elections officials voted Monday to cut the overall number of hours from the 2012 election by 238, even while opening as many… Continue reading
“How this bit of nasty N.J. history may foil Trump’s vow to stop ‘rigged election'”
Must-read Jonathan Salant on RNC consent decree:
The Republican National Committee has been under court-imposed limits since New Jersey’s 1981 gubernatorial election.
During the campaign, state GOP officials sent letters to residents of communities with large numbers of black or… Continue reading
“Voting-Rights Advocates Keep Scoring Major Victories, But the Fight Isn’t Over Yet”
Edwin Rios for Mother Jones.
“Is North Carolina Trying To Lose One Of The Biggest Voting Rights Cases In The Nation?”
Ian Millhiser for Think Progress.
Millhiser: “The whole brief is written to piss off liberals. Opening with Crawford & Shelby County? Why not Lochner & Korematsu!”
Farias: This from North Carolina to #SCOTUS strikes me as rather … odd:… Continue reading
“North Carolina Took 17 Days to Ask Supreme Court to Rescue Its Voter ID Law”
Cristian Farias for HuffPo.
“North Carolina appeals voter ID ruling to the Supreme Court”
Ariane de Vogue reports for CNN.
Breaking: North Carolina Files Emergency #SCOTUS Stay Request in Voting Case
A full 17 days after the 4th Circuit held that challenged provisions of North Carolina’s voting law had to be blocked because they were passed with a racially discriminatory purpose, the state of North Carolina has filed this petition asking… Continue reading
“Bloomberg Law Brief: Wisconsin Voter ID Law “
Bloomberg Law program with June Grasso:
Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia University Law School, and Rick Hasen, professor at University of California Irvine School of Law and founder of the Election Law Blog discuss an appeals court decision, which… Continue reading
Trump’s Lawyer Don McGahn, Republican Lawyers’ Group, Plotting “Election Observer” Strategy
Weigel:
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is asking supporters to become election monitors, warning voters Friday night that “cheating” might rob him of a win.
At the same time, outside groups are readying to help the campaign watch the polls.… Continue reading
Revised Version of My Piece on Judicial Softening of Voter ID Laws in Theory and Practice Now Posted on SSRN
This piece, forthcoming in the Wisconsin Law Review Forward, is now updated to discuss recent softening attempts in WI, NC, and TX. Here is the abstract:
Headlines about voter identification laws often place court rulings in a simple win… Continue reading
“Redistricting, Voter ID Laws, Early Voting, And The Post-Shelby World”
Above the Law’s Joe Patrice has a new podcast episode:
First, Ben Griffith of the Griffith Law Firm in Oxford, Mississippi and Robert Heath ofBickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta discussed election law in the context of the new book… Continue reading
Close of Business Friday, and No NC “Emergency” SCOTUS Petition in Voting Case: Why?
And now the Purcell Principle works against the state of North Carolina, which has been living with, and preparing to implement, the 4th Circuit North Carolina ruling for two full weeks.
A stay imposed by the Supreme Court at this… Continue reading