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 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
Order does loosen up timeframe for softening of WI’s voter ID law through new DMV procedures:
IT IS ORDERED that defendants’ motion to stay the court’s permanent injunction pending appeal, Dkt. 241, is DENIED in substantial part. As explained above,… Continue reading
Via Josh Gerstein comes this petition, filed very quickly by the Voting Rights plaintiffs in the Wisconsin voter id case. It asks the full 7th Circuit to reverse the stay of the affidavit softening order by the trial court… Continue reading
And so far nada. Coming up on Thursday.
Time works against the state right now, given that changes closer to the election are disfavored and the state has been implementing the 4th Circuit’s ruling.