Category Archives: voter id

Texas Will Seek #SCOTUS Review of 5th Circuit Voter ID Ruling: Is It Planning on Challenging Rules This Election?

August 16, 2016, 12:13 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Texas has already agreed to a softening of its voter id law for this election. As expected, the state has announced it will file a cert. petition at the Supreme Court seeking review. But this line in the Dallas… Continue reading

“North Carolina Won’t Stop Suppressing the Vote”

August 16, 2016, 9:08 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ari Berman for The Nation.

“North Carolina asks the Justices to step in on voter ID law”

August 16, 2016, 9:05 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Amy Howe for SCOTUSBlog.

“The Stunning Chutzpah Of North Carolina’s Voter Suppression Attorneys”

August 16, 2016, 8:57 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ian Millhiser tears apart Paul Clement’s brief.

“North Carolina Took 17 Days to Ask Supreme Court to Rescue Its Voter ID Law”

August 15, 2016, 8:34 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Cristian Farias for HuffPo.

“North Carolina appeals voter ID ruling to the Supreme Court”

August 15, 2016, 7:59 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Ariane de Vogue reports for CNN.

Breaking: North Carolina Files Emergency #SCOTUS Stay Request in Voting Case

August 15, 2016, 2:50 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

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 “

August 15, 2016, 7:39 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

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

Breaking: WI Files Emergency Stay in Second Voting Case

August 12, 2016, 2:48 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Although WI tried to spin yesterday’s loss as a win, now they’ve gone to the 7th Circuit with this emergency motion. The state wants 7 election rollbacks the trial court found illegal to be reinstated before the election, and… Continue reading

District Court in Other WI Case Mostly Denies WI Request for Stay of Ruling

August 11, 2016, 7:33 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

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

Breaking: WI Voter ID Plaintiffs File Emergency 7th Circuit En Banc Petition for ID Softening

August 11, 2016, 2:10 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

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

Where Do We Stand on the Voting Wars in NC, TX, WI and Elsewhere?

August 11, 2016, 7:46 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I try to bring it together at WaPo’s The Monkey Cage: After a notable string of voting rights decisions in the past few weeks — throwing out or weakening voter identification and other restrictive voting laws in Texas, North… Continue reading