[EL] Fwd: ACLU Voting Rights Managing Attorney

[Rick Hasen]

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Subject: 	ACLU Voting Rights Managing Attorney
Date: 	Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:08:33 -0500
From: 	Matt Coles <MCOLES at aclu.org>
To: 	Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu>



The ACLU seeks a dynamic creative litigator with vision to help define 
and then lead its voting rights work.  This is a watershed moment in 
voting rights.  The validity of section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, 
perhaps the single most successful civil rights law in history, is now 
before the United States Supreme Court.  The once broad agreement that 
the ability of people to vote should be maximized has broken down, with 
many arguing that only the well informed should vote and with 
legislatures passing laws making voting difficult.  At the same time, 
public impatience with archaic voting processes is creating a matchless 
opportunity for electoral reform.

At this critical moment, the ACLU is seeking a Managing Attorney for its 
voting rights work.  The Managing Attorney will, along with the Director 
of the ACLU's Equality Center and with help from the long-time Director 
of the ACLU's Southern Regional Office,  decide what issues the ACLU 
should prioritize, what long term goals it should persue, and which 
strategies and tactics it should use. Those potential tactics include 
litigation, state and federal legislation, administrative reform and 
public education and mobilization.

This is a once-in-a-generation chance to help chart the course of 
America's premiere defender of civil rights and civil liberties on the 
bedrock right to self government.  The Managing Attorney will need to be 
an experienced, savy litigator.  But she or he will also have to have a 
vision for protecting the vote that encompasses winning in the halls of 
state legislatures and Congress, and in the court of public opinion.  
The Managing Attorney will supervise ACLU staff lawyers working on 
Voting Rights, and, along with the Center Director, will provide 
direction to state and federal lobbyists and advocates and 
communications staff.  The Managing Attorney will report to the Equality 
Center Director.

The job description is attached.  While the job will remain open until 
filled, the ACLU plans on reviewing applications and starting the 
interview process before the end of the year.

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