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
Campaign Legal Center:
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) today called on the U.S. Supreme Court to take immediate action in the Texas voter ID case so that voters will not be harmed by the law in the 2016 presidential election.… Continue reading
Press release:
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) today called on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate its stay of a lower court’s ruling so that Texas’s harmful voter ID law will not prevent voters from casting… Continue reading
I have written this new piece for The Atlantic. it begins:
A recent lawsuit accuses the state of Wisconsin of disenfranchising an eligible voter who had lost the use of her hands, because she could not sign a government document… Continue reading
News and Observer:
Ruby McClellan, a UNC-Chapel Hill freshman, registered to vote in November. She has a New York license, so she cast a provisional ballot last Saturday. At the same time, other students with out-of-state licenses were able… Continue reading
Must-read NYT Richard Fausset:
The purest distillation of the nation’s wars over voting rules and legislative gerrymandering is playing out in North Carolina.
A high-profile lawsuit is taking on a voter identification law and other voting changes. There are four… Continue reading