WRAL: A Buncombe County Republican precinct chairman has been asked to resign after making “offensive” comments on “The Daily Show.” Buncombe GOP Chairman Henry Mitchell said Don Yelton officially stepped down from his position Thursday. In a segment that aired … Continue reading
Category Archives: voter id
I have written this new piece for The Daily Beast. A snippet: But I for one am glad Judge Posner spoke up candidly. Supporters of voter ID laws point to Crawford all the time as having settled the issue of … Continue reading
Important points where the details matter on voter ID from Ari Berman. … Continue reading
“Race or Party?” is the theme of the 2013 American Values Public Lecture I’ll be giving at NC State on October 24 and my keynote address at this conference on October 25. I will also post soon on SSRN a … Continue reading
Jesse Wegman writes on NYT’s “Taking Note” edit. blog. … Continue reading
Jamelle Bouie writes for The Daily Beast. I’ve got my own more extended piece on Judge Posner in the works. … Continue reading
Professor Fran Quigley on Judge Posner and Justice Stevens recent comments about the lawyering in Crawford. … Continue reading
TPM reports. You can find North Carolina’s answer in the NAACP case here [link fixed]. Apparently there is no separate motion to dismiss as I had understood and posted about yesterday. … Continue reading
Lane: “Some critics of voter ID laws may revel in Posner’s confession. I wish he’d kept his mouth shut. Not because I’m a fan of voter ID laws — I’m not — but because Posner’s casual mea culpa is improper … Continue reading
The News and Observer reports. If anyone has the motion to dismiss, please pass it along and I will post it. … Continue reading
Interesting. … Continue reading
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IndyStar on Judge Posner (who, despite the title, is still a judge) … Continue reading
Ed Whelan: By contrast, one has to wonder what underlies his assertion in his book some six years later that he got it wrong. The few words he writes—that the law “was a type of law now widely regarded as … Continue reading
WBIR: “Chief Justice Gary R. Wade wrote that, although instances of people impersonating voters at the polls have not been documented in Tennessee.” Read the City of Memphis, Tenn. v. Hargett Opinion authored by Chief Justice Gary R. Wade, and … Continue reading
Jess Bravin asked Justice Stevens if he stands by his decision in Crawford, the Indiana voter id decision, in light of Judge Posner’s recent comments saying he got the case wrong: In an interview this week, Justice Stevens said he … Continue reading
Paul Smith: “As the lawyer who argued the constitutional challenge to the Indiana Voter ID law in the Supreme Court in 2008, I was both fascinated and pleased to hear that Judge Richard Posner – the author of the Seventh … Continue reading
NYT Editorial on Posner. … Continue reading
NYT’s John Schwartz: “It is the kind of thought that rarely passes the lips of a member of the federal judiciary: I was wrong.” My earlier coverage of Judge Posner’s comments are here and here. When Judge Posner’s opinion came … Continue reading
USA Today: A nationwide USA TODAY/Bipartisan Policy Center poll finds a majority of Americans support a range of proposals aimed at easing hyper-partisanship and building confidence in elections. Some command the sort of broad bipartisan backing rare in national politics. … Continue reading
See here: Finally, the ILB asked an attorney familiar with the case for a reaction: For Judge Posner now to admit he was wrong but then blame the lawyers for not giving him enough information by which he could evaluate … Continue reading
Commission on Youth Voting and Civic Knowledge Releases Report … Continue reading
Wow. My transcription from HuffPostLive: In response to Mike Sacks’s questions about whether Judge Posner and the 7th circuit got it wrong in Crawford case, the one upholding Indiana’s tough voter id law against constitutional challenge: “Yes. Absolutely. And the … Continue reading
Rob Richie: The Civitas Institute, a North Carolina group founded by the controversial Art Pope, which had great influence in designing the law and has long pushed for strict voter ID requirements, has been highly critical of the prospective lawsuit. … Continue reading
I’m happy to announce that I will be giving this lecture on October 24 at 7 PM at North Carolina State University. … Continue reading
NYT editorial. … Continue reading
NYT: The Justice Department is expected to sue North Carolina on Monday over its restrictive new voting law, further escalating the Obama administration’s efforts to restore a stronger federal role in protecting minority voters after the Supreme Court struck down … Continue reading
Brennan Center: “Today, the Texas State Conference of the NAACP and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus of the Texas House of Representatives (MALC) filed suit in federal court to block the state’s new voter ID law because it erects discriminatory … Continue reading
The LA Times reports. … Continue reading
An editorial from the San Antonio Express-News. … Continue reading
Matthew Cooper of National Journal: “On the left, voter-ID laws are being dismissed as the second coming of Jim Crow…. On the right, they’re being hailed as common-sense measures to prevent ballot fraud and keep elections fair and honest without … Continue reading
A knowledgeable reader writes: Jimmy Carter in 2008: “As [James Baker and I] stated in our 2005 report, voter ID laws are not a problem in and of themselves. Rather, the current crop of laws are not being phased in … Continue reading
This interesting item (and many other interesting items) appear at the new “Texas Election Law Blog.” The blog is written by “Joseph Kulhavy – I am a licensed attorney in the State of Texas, and from October 6, 2004 until … Continue reading
Ross Ramsey of the Texas Tribune sits down with The Fix. … Continue reading
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See this press release. … Continue reading
So reports Michael Li. … Continue reading
NLJ reports. … Continue reading
Charlie Savage reports for the NYT. … Continue reading
WaPo reports. … Continue reading
The Week on today’s DOJ move. … Continue reading
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This, from the Republican Democrats have been counting on to try to push a legislative fix after the Shelby County decision: Congressman Sensenbrenner: “I regret that the Department of Justice announced its intent to file a lawsuit against Texas’ Voter … Continue reading
Remember this exchange from the oral argument in Shelby County? JUSTICE KENNEDY: Well, I — I do think the evidence is very clear that Section — that individual suits under Section 2 type litigation were just insufficient and that Section … Continue reading
As I explained in this National Law Journal piece from a few weeks ago, AG Holder is trying whatever he can to make up for the loss of the preclearance provisions of Section 5. But thanks to the Supreme Court’s … Continue reading
Press release: Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, August 22, 2013 Justice Department to File New Lawsuit Against State of Texas Over Voter I.D. Law The Department of Justice announced today that it will file … Continue reading
Texas Tribune: “A fight against the state’s contentious voter ID laws escalated this week when Dallas County became the first Texas county to claim that the requirements would disenfranchise thousands of eligible voters.” … Continue reading
Texas Tribune: “Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on Monday called a lawyer for the Mexican American Legislative Caucus unethical for his suggestion that people in the Rio Grande Valley attempt to vote without a photo ID.” And an update to the story: … Continue reading
Frank Wilkinson for Bloomberg View. … Continue reading