[EL] DOJ Preclearance Denials under the Reauthorized VRA
Justin Levitt
levittj at lls.edu
Mon Jan 30 14:28:25 PST 2012
Actually, though I plead neither a lot of time nor a lot of interns, in
conjunction with this U.S. Comm'n on Civil Rights hearing
<http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-commission-on-civil-rights-announces-briefing-on-redistricting-and-the-2010-census-enforcing-section-5-of-the-voting-rights-act-138312949.html>
coming up at the end of the week, I've pulled together a list of all of
the submissions, (formal) requests for more information, and objections
-- just for calendar year 2011, and just for redistricting
plans/procedures (or, more accurately, those coded with the word
"redistricting" on the Weekly Notice that John mentioned). (So it
won't include the objections from 2006-2010.)
I'm happy to make it available to those who are interested -- just email
me off-list.
Justin
On 1/30/2012 1:12 PM, John Tanner wrote:
> Someone with a lot of time or interns can glean that information from
> the Voting Section's Weekly Notice of Section 5 Activity. These are
> archived at
> http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/notices/votarch.php. Anyone
> interested can email section5.notice at usdoj.gov
> <mailto:section5.notice at usdoj.gov> and get on the list to receive a
> copy. They come out more or less every week.
> There also is a room where copies of outstanding requests for more
> information and requests for submission of unprecleared chanegs (those
> to which the jurisdiction has not replied) that many of you may have
> seen at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Chandler Davidson <fcd at rice.edu
> <mailto:fcd at rice.edu>> wrote:
>
> John,
>
> Does DOJ have the data on more info requests? As you know, these,
> in their own way, are important, too--especially those requests
> that are not responded to by the jurisdictions.
>
> Chandler
>
> On Jan 30, 2012, at 2:53 PM, John Tanner wrote:
>
>> there are many others see
>> http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/obj_activ..php
>> <http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/obj_activ.php>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:41 PM, nathaniel persily
>> <nate at persily.com <mailto:nate at persily.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I have been trying to gather together the preclearance
>> denials issued from DOJ since the VRA has been reauthorized.
>> I have come up with the following:
>>
>> 1. Kinston, North Carolina, Move to Nonpartisan
>> Elections (August 17, 2009)
>> 2. Lowndes, Georgia, Redistricting Plan (November 30, 2009)
>> 3. Fairfield County, South Carolina, Addition of
>> Appointed Positions to Elected School Board of Trustees
>> (August 16, 2010)
>> 4. Galveston, Texas, Switch to Combined Districted and
>> Partially At-Large Elections (October 3, 2011)
>> 5. East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, Redistricting Plan
>> (October 3, 2011)
>> 6. Amite County, Mississippi, Redistricting Plan
>> (October 4, 2011)
>> 7. South Carolina Voter Identification Law (December 23,
>> 2011)
>> [8. Texas Redistricting Plans (Brief Filed in D.D.C. on
>> January 13, 2012) -- not really a preclearance denial, I know]
>>
>> Of course, this does not include more information requests
>> and other actions the Department might be taking. But am I
>> missing any denials of which listmembers are aware? (I am
>> not trying to invite a discussion of the rightness or
>> wrongness of DOJ behavior; I'm just trying to make sure the
>> list is accurate.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Nathaniel Persily
>> Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law and
>> Political Science
>> Columbia Law School
>> Jerome Greene Hall
>> 435 West 116th Street
>> New York, NY 10027
>> (917) 570-3223 <tel:%28917%29%20570-3223>
>> nate at persily.com <mailto:nate at persily.com>
>>
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