Sam Issacharoff and Mike Pitts have agreed to participate in my guest blogging experiment on VRA renewal. Sam and Mike have engaged in an interesting debate over the future of Section 5.… Continue reading

The NY Times offers this report, which begins: “For years, New York Republicans have propped up their slim majority in the State Senate partly by seizing on a quirk in the federal census: counting prisoners as residents of the… Continue reading

I have uploaded it here.

Lyle Denniston has this post on SCOTUSBlog about the appeal I noted was on the way in the Maine campaign finance case. Allison Hayward links to the jurisdictional statement. Lyle notes that the petitioners ask for an expedited briefing… Continue reading

On May 16, the commitee is tentatively scheduled to hear from: Anita S. Earls Director of Advocacy University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights Chapel Hill, North Carolina Pamela S. Karlan Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest… Continue reading

This post appears at the CLCblog.

Jo Mannies has this column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Allison Hayward notes this interesting vote at the FEC.

Doug Chapin offers these thoughts on the recent federal district court decision upholding Indiana’s voter identification law. It contains some very strong words about the trial tactics of the plaintiffs’ lawyers in the case.

Reuters offers this report, which begins: “Musician and mystery writer Kinky Friedman, brandishing his trademark cigar and spouting one-liners, turned in petitions with nearly 170,000 signatures on Thursday in his bid to run for governor of Texas as an… Continue reading

The Wall Street Journal offers this report. See also this NY Times report.

The Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity has issued this report, which recommends Congress make the following changes when renewing the VRA: 1. Restore discriminatory intent as a rationale for objecting to a voting change pursuant to… Continue reading

See this press release.