In an article that I'd have thought I wrote if the byline hadn't told me otherwise, Allen Clifton at Forward Progressives is suitably amused by the legal strategy of the State of Texas to avoid having the entire state returned to DoJ pre-clearance under the...
voting rights
Ari Berman with an excellent article on John Lewis and how the Supreme Court's likely overturning of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is a national repudiation of what.
Photoshopping really is the right-wing dog whistler's favorite tool. A conservative group connected to Colorado’s Secretary of State has been sending political mailers — including a picture of a darker-skinned.
I didn't watch the speech last night. Being in Britain, I was busy sleeping. Indeed, I barely made it through all of Celtic v Juventus, regretfully. Buried towards the end of the speech, at about 51 minutes in, is the initiative to address voting barriers:...
See Lithwick, Liptak, Hasen, Epps, and Denniston. It will be interesting to see if the Court runs with the compromise floated by Kagan.
In the thread to the post below, Scott P. suggests denying felons the right to vote is consistent with social contract theory. I think that's probably true for some but.
and not because the Tories may win, or even that the election may result in a hung parliament.Rather, the EUCouncil of Europe is upset that the UK has been delaying the enactment of a 2005 European Court of Human Rights judgment that it is inconsistent...
The Indiana Court of Appeals struck down the Voter ID Act that was upheld by the United States Supreme Court last year. The opinion gets right to the heart of.
The Supreme Court today, by an 8-1 vote, narowed but did not strike down the "preclearance" provisions of the Voting Rights Act that require certain jurisdictions to get federal approval.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court considered a provision of the Voting Rights Act that requires a federal remedy if a members of a minority group has "less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their...