Reading The Tea Leaves On Shelby County v. Holder
Based on today’s decision in Maryland v. King, there are now three opinions outstanding from the February sitting (Shelby County v. Holder, Peugh v. United States, and American Express Co. v. Italian...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Shelby County
In several places I’ve seen the same question posed about the majority opinion in Shelby County v. Holder: “What part of the Constitution supports the decision?” Steve Benen, for instance, writes: as I...
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Colorado Inside-Out 1973 Time Machine
This Friday, July 6, at 8 p.m. Mountain Time, is Colorado Inside-Out’s annual Time Machine episode, on Colorado Public Television, channel 12. These episodes have won three regional Emmy Awards. This...
View ArticleBaude on Shelby County
For those who are not familiar with Will Baude’s blogging, here are two recent posts on Shelby County from PrawfsBlawg. Congressional Power and the Reconstruction Amendments Problems with Shelby County...
View ArticleWhat Will Happen to Section Two of the Voting Rights Act?
In a speech today, Attorney General Holder announced that he has “directed the Department’s Civil Rights Division to shift resources to the enforcement of Voting Rights Act provisions that were not...
View ArticleJustice Stevens’s Thoughts on Shelby county
Justice Stevens has not been shy in his retirement about telling us what he thinks about current controversies at the Supreme Court. In an essay at the New York Review of Books (reviewing Gary May,...
View ArticleThinking Through the Constitutionality of Section 2
Several commenters asked me to expand a bit on the constitutional questions raised by Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. While I doubt that I can do so with a thoroughness that would satisfy the...
View ArticleDOJ Decides to Mess with Texas
So the big Voting Rights Act news of the day is that the Department of Justice will be asking a court to “bail in” the state of Texas for preclearance under the Voting Rights Act. (This involves a...
View ArticleJoey Fishkin on “Shenanigans” After Section Five
Joey Fishkin has an excellent post on some of the many voting changes that previously-covered jurisdictions are implementing (or may implement) now that they are not covered by Section Five of the...
View ArticleHasen on the New Proposed Voting Rights Act
Election law maven Rick Hasen writes: I have now had a chance to review the text the Voting Rights Amendments Act of 2014 introduced today by Representatives Sensenbrenner and Conyers (with parallel...
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