David Gans: “the Supreme Court has decimated landmark federal civil rights legislation designed to protect constitutional rights, end racial injustices, and check state abuse of power.”
From Section Chair Michael Morley:
Dear Colleagues of the Section on Election Law,I hope you have been doing well this summer! Especially since so many professors still must restrict their travel due to COVID, we thought it would be nice… Continue reading
Bloomberg: “Senator Joe Manchin said he wouldn’t carve out an exemption to the chamber’s filibuster rule for voting rights legislation, effectively dashing chances that Democrats could maneuver around Republican opposition to overhauling the nation’s elections laws.”
From Jamelle Bouie:
For as much as Jim Crow dominates our collective memory of voting restrictions, it is the attack on suffrage in the North in [the] last decades of the 19th century that might actually be more relevant… Continue reading
Arizona Republic:
Arizona Senate President Karen Fann said Thursday that the Legislature needs more materials and data from Maricopa County for an unprecedented and controversial review of 2020 election results that is deep into its third month….Also during the… Continue reading
Here are the witness list, written testimony, and video link for the hearing before the house House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties at 1:00 ET. Scheduled to testify:
Mr. Sean Morales-DoyleActing Director, Voting Rights… Continue reading
WaPo reports: “Texas state legislators … arrived in Washington just as the congressional Democrats they are trying to prod into action on voting legislation have turned their full attention toward a trillion-dollar infrastructure deal and a potentially historic $3.5 … Continue reading
NBC News on the revelations in Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker’s forthcoming book I Alone Can Fix It:
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, worried that then-President Donald Trump would try to use the military… Continue reading
WaPo:
According to a June report from the nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, more than $5 million in corporate or industry money has already gone to lawmakers who contested the election results or to aligned party… Continue reading
This all happened at Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing on voting rights after Brnovich and Shelby County.
You can watch Senator Padilla ask me the initial question in the video at the 2:56:42 mark.
Senator Lee’s rant, where he… Continue reading
Dave’s Redistricting App (DRA), which is free, has become an extraordinarily powerful tool in this decade for individuals and groups seeking to draw their own redistricting maps. Thousands of DRA users have created more than half-a-million Congressional, state legislative,… Continue reading
Popular Information on CPA’s report Conflicted Consequences: “Over the last decade, public corporations have given Republicans at the state level a financial advantage that exceeds $200 million, according to new research provided exclusively to Popular Information by the Center… Continue reading
Bloomberg reports on questions from Senators Cruz, Hawley, and others:
Partisan controversy over voting rights flared at a confirmation hearing for a New York-based federal appeals court nominee who was questioned by conservative lawmakers over her record working on election… Continue reading