Category Archives: voter id
“How North Carolina became the epicenter of the voting rights battle”
Sari Horwitz reports for WaPo.
4th Circuit Panel Which Partially Reversed NC Voting Decision in 2014 Likely to Get Case Back on Appeal
in my earlier post, Breaking and Analysis: Federal District Court Upholds Restrictive NC Voting Law in 485-Page Opinion, I wrote that success on appeal in the North Carolina case could well turn on which judges on the 4th Circuit… Continue reading
“Opponents of North Carolina’s Voter ID Law Appeal Ruling”
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 Judge Upholds North Carolina’s Sweeping Voter ID Law”
Pam Fessler reports for NPR.
“Federal judge upholds controversial North Carolina voting law”
Sari Horwitz reports for WaPo.
Last night I wrote:Breaking and Analysis: Federal District Court Upholds Restrictive NC Voting Law in 485-Page Opinion
Breaking and Analysis: Federal District Court Upholds Restrictive NC Voting Law in 485-Page Opinion
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
“Essay — Softening Voter ID Laws Through Litigation: Is it Enough?”
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
A Wild Guess on #SCOTUS Special Opinion Monday: Texas Voter ID
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
“Texas photo ID law stands despite challenges since Supreme Court ruling weakened Voting Rights Act”
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
“Junior and the Gastonette”
Robbin Stewart on the Easterbrook WI voter id opinion.
“A Black Man Brought 3 Forms of ID to the Polls in Wisconsin. He Still Couldn’t Vote.”
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 Pros And Cons Of Voter ID Laws”
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”).
Breaking: 7th Cir. Revives As-Applied Challenge to WI Voter ID Law
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