Alan Blinder for the NYT:
The protracted battle over North Carolina’s voting rules moved to a federal appeals court on Tuesday, one day after a judge upheld the Republican-backed overhaul and increased the likelihood that the changes would be in… Continue reading
Federal district court judge Thomas Schroeder has issued this 485-page opinion considering constitutional and Voting Rights Act challenges to North Carolina’s 2013 restrictive voting law (which I have discussed in a number of places including this Harvard Law Review forum… Continue reading
I have posted on SSRN a revised version of this piece, now forthcoming in the Wisconsin Law Review Forward. Here is the abstract:
Headlines about voter identification laws often place court rulings in a simple win or loss frame.… Continue reading
Lyle Denniston reported at SCOTUSBlog: “The Supreme Court, altering its usual agenda, will issue one or more opinions in argued cases on Monday of next week, as well as on the more normal days of Tuesday and Wednesday, according to… Continue reading
David Savage for the LAT:
Seemingly untouched by numerous legal defeats, the voter ID law serves as an example of how difficult it can be to halt potentially discriminatory voting rules in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision… Continue reading
Must-read Ari Berman:
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said his state’s strict new voter ID requirement worked “just fine” in the April 5 primary, but thousands of Wisconsinites were unable to cast a ballot because of the new law.… Continue reading
The Onion offers a list of pro’s (including “Less time-consuming form of discrimination than literacy test”) and cons (“Doesn’t completely eliminate possibility of undesirable populations from voting”).
As expected, a unanimous 7th Circuit panel, in an opinion by Judge Easterbrook, has reversed a lower court and ordered that court to consider whether Wisconsin’s voter id law unconstitutionally burdens the right to vote or those voters who… Continue reading
Yesterday the 7th Circuit (with a panel of Judges Easterbrook, Sykes, and Kanne) heard oral argument in a follow-on federal challenge to Wisconsin’s voter id law. You can listen to the oral argument. After listening, I believe the 7th… Continue reading