[EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/7/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Aug 7 08:47:40 PDT 2015
More on Republican Commemoration of VRA 50th Anniversary
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75118>
Posted onAugust 7, 2015 8:43 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75118>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Sen. McConnelltells the
NYT<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/us/obama-urges-restoring-voting-rights-provisions.html?ref=politics>that
no VRA fix is necessary:
On Thursday, Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the
majority leader, said the law “has been a big success; it’s worked,”
and suggested that a revision was not needed.
“It is also important to understand how different the South is now,”
Mr. McConnell said, adding that there were more black elected
officials in Mississippi than in any other state. “America’s come a
long way, and the Voting Rights Act is intact, it was not struck down.”
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=81>
“Obama Urges Restoring Voting Rights Provisions”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75116>
Posted onAugust 7, 2015 8:42 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75116>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/us/obama-urges-restoring-voting-rights-provisions.html?ref=politics>
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
“Voting Rights Law, Then and Now” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75114>
Posted onAugust 7, 2015 8:38 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75114>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Nate Persily
<http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2015/08/voting-rights-law-then-and-now/>at
Constitution Daily.
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Posted inVoting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“A troubled semicentennial remembrance of the Voting Rights Act”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75112>
Posted onAugust 7, 2015 8:37 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75112>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Rick Valelly
<http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2015/08/a-troubled-semicentennial-remembrance-of-the-voting-rights-act/>at
Constitution Daily.
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“Advocates Call On Democratic Party To Drop Lawsuit, Comply With
Subpoena” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75110>
Posted onAugust 7, 2015 8:35 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75110>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CT News Junkie
<http://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/advocates_call_on_democratic_party_to_drop_lawsuit_comply_with_subpoena/>:
Common Cause of Connecticut on Wednesday called upon the Connecticut
Democratic Party to drop its challenge of the state’s clean election
laws.
The lawsuit servedTuesday
<http://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/dems_file_second_lawsuit_against_election_regulators/>is
the second since the start of the 10-month investigation into
mailings the party did on behalf of Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy
during the 2014 election cycle.
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“Let watchdog do its job without partisanship”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75108>
Posted onAugust 7, 2015 8:32 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75108>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/let-watchdog-do-its-job-without-partisanship-b99551946z1-320983601.html>editoria
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/let-watchdog-do-its-job-without-partisanship-b99551946z1-320983601.html>l
on GAB.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“The Real Voter Fraud is Texas’ Voter ID Law”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75106>
Posted onAugust 7, 2015 8:29 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75106>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Lead NYT editorial.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/opinion/the-real-voter-fraud-is-texas-id-law.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0>
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Posted inSupreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,The Voting
Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“In Republican debate, little talk about big money”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75104>
Posted onAugust 7, 2015 8:21 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75104>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CPI
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/08/06/17801/republican-debate-little-talk-about-big-money>:
Midway through the debate, Fox News co-moderator Bret Baier
explained thatDonald Trump
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/06/16/17488/9-things-know-about-donald-trump>has
given money to numerous Democrats over the years.
Baier then noted that Trump has previously stated that politicians
do favors for contributions.
“You better believe it,” Trump told Baier.
“I give to everybody. When they call, I give,” Trump said, quickly
adding that he considers the nation’s political money system a
“broken system.”
Trump said that adecade ago
<http://time.com/3988313/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-wedding/>,
after he made a donation to Democratic presidential
frontrunnerHillary Clinton
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/04/12/17107/12-things-know-about-hillary-clinton>,
then a senator, he asked Clinton to come to his wedding.
“She had no choice, because I gave,” Trump said. (A Clinton aidesaid
<http://twitter.com/amychozick/status/629483730172837889>Trump’s
assertion was “ridiculous” and “hurt” Clinton’s feelings.)
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“Campaign finance in the US and the UK: A comparative assessment”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75102>
Posted onAugust 7, 2015 7:48 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75102>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Dentons has postedthis analysis.
<http://www.dentons.com/en/insights/alerts/2015/august/4/campaign-finance-in-the-us-and-the-uk-a-comparative-assessment?ParentItemID=ktrrmYwQ8YF3a5SKjru8rjQh4mofQ7sXIz2lFCnRwTHpmyWPUqCnxA==&Archive=False>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,comparative election law
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=107>
AALS Election Law Call for Papers <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72943>
Posted onAugust 7, 2015 7:30 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72943>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
[/bumping to the top with deadline approaching/]
From Josh Douglas:
The AALS Section on Election Law is is seeking abstracts or drafts
of papers to be presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting in New York,
NY. This year’s program is entitled: *Election Law at the Local Level*.
Here the program description:
Although national election controversies grab the headlines,
decisions made at the local level impact our elections in important
ways – and even contribute to those national issues. Local and
state actors play a front-line role in administering elections for
all levels of government. This panel will focus on how local
jurisdictions handle important issues such as ballot access, voting
rights, early voting, Election Day processes, and post-election
disputes. Panelists will explain how these issues relate to the
smooth running of the election, and how they might impact the 2016
presidential election season. One panelist will be chosen from a
Call for Papers.
Confirmed panelists include Jocelyn Benson (Wayne State), Rich Ford
(Stanford), David Schleicher (Yale), and Trey Greyson (former
Kentucky Secretary of State). We are looking for one additional
panelist to join this distinguished group.
The program will take place on*Friday, January 8, 2016 from 10:30
am-12:15 pm*.
Please submit an abstract or draft paper to Section Chair Josh
Douglas atjoshuadouglas at uky.edu <mailto:joshuadouglas at uky.edu>. The
deadline is*August 15, 2015*.
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“Ted Deutch and Lois Frankel pledge to not run against each other”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75099>
Posted onAugust 7, 2015 7:29 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75099>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Miami Herald:
<http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2015/08/ted-deutch-and-lois-frankel-pledge-to-not-run-against-each-other.html>
“U.S. Representatives*Ted Deutch*and*Lois Frankel*issued a joint
statement today in response to the proposed map by the state
Legislature which shows that their homes will both be in District 21.”
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“The King of Coal Reveals $1 Million Bet on Jeb Bush”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75097>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 4:07 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75097>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-06/the-king-of-coal-made-a-hidden-1-million-bet-on-jeb-bush>:
Chris Cline, the billionaire coal baron, revealed himself today as
the donor behind a $1 million contribution to a super-PAC supporting
Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign….
Cline’s donation was listed as having come from a company known as
Jasper Reserves LLC, about which little was known before Thursday
beyond an address in downtown Charleston, West Virginia. In his
statement, Glasser acknowledged that Jasper Reserves “is a Chris
Cline company.”
The contribution also points to a loophole in the campaign finance
system. Under current law, super-PACs can receive unlimited
donations from individuals, corporations and other businesses, but
they must regularly disclose their identities.
Using a shell corporation that’s not easily traced to its creator is
one way big donors can avoid the disclosure requirement.
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Guy Charles Talks with NPR’s Here and Now About VRA 50th Anniverary
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75095>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 1:01 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75095>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Listen
<http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/08/06/voting-rights-act-anniversary>.
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“What Comes Next For Texas’ Voter ID Case”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75093>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 1:00 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75093>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
TPM reports.
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/texas-voter-id-decision-whats-next>
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“The Voting Rights Act turns 50 today. Here are three trends in
minority voting you should know about.”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75091>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 12:42 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75091>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bernard Fraga
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/08/06/the-voting-rights-act-turns-50-today-here-are-three-trends-in-minority-voting-you-should-know-about/>for
The Monkey Cage:
African Americans can (and do) vote at far higher rates than they
did in the decade before the Voting Rights Act, according to the
evidence. But Latino and Asian-American turnout remain so low that
our elections may be less representative of the racial/ethnic mix of
the country than they were 50 years ago.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
Roundup of Stories on 5th Circuit TX Voter ID Decision
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75089>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 12:38 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75089>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Howard <http://howappealing.abovethelaw.com/080615.html#063143>(who else?).
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“The Eyes of Texas” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75087>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 12:36 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75087>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Mimi Marziani<http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/the-eyes-of-texas>at ACS on
the 5th Circuit’s voter id decision.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“Hurricane SCOTUS: The Hubris of Striking our Democracy’s
Discrimination Checkpoint in Shelby County & the Resulting
Thunderstorm Assault on Voting Rights”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75085>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 12:35 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75085>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ryan Haygood article
<http://harvardlpr.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/10.1_Haygood_Shelby-County.pdf>now
posted at the Harvard Law and Policy Review, with this accompanyingblog
post
<http://harvardlpr.com/2015/08/06/fifty-years-after-the-voting-rights-act-two-years-after-shelby-county/>.
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“The Voting Rights Act is a grand success!”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75083>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 12:32 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75083>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ilya Shapiro
<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-voting-rights-act-is-a-grand-success/article/2569622>thinks
today on the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act we should
celebrate the Supreme Court’s 2013 /Shelby County /decision to
eviscerate a key portion of the act.
It would be funny if it were not so risible.
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“State Constitutions: The Next Frontier in Voting Rights Protection”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75081>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 12:30 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75081>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Josh Douglas
<http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/state-constitutions-the-next-frontier-in-voting-rights-protection>at
ACS:
Fifty years later, and we are still trying to figure out the puzzle.
Today – the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act – represents
both a milestone and an opportunity. It is a milestone that allows
us to reflect on how far we have come in protecting the right to
vote. It is an opportunity to discern how best to protect the right
to vote during the next fifty years, and beyond, particularly in
light of the U.S. Supreme Court’srecent
<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/northwest-austin-municipal-utility-district-number-one-v-eric-holder-jr-attorney-general-et-al/>decisions
<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/shelby-county-v-holder/>curtailing
that hallowed law.
In anew Issue Brief
<https://www.acslaw.org/sites/default/files/Douglas_Right_to_Vote_State_Courts_and_Constitutions_-_Issue_Brief_1.pdf>,
which stems from tworecent
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2234762>scholarly <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2495078>articles
on the subject, I argue that, particularly given recent Supreme
Court rulings and the now-reduced force of the Voting Rights Act,
the answer of how best to protect the right to vote lies with state
constitutions and state courts.
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“The Voting Rights Act at 50: The Texas Voter ID Story – Timeline”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75079>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 12:29 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75079>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
New report <https://lawyerscommittee.org/pages/vra-at-50/>posted by the
Lawyers’ Committee.
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“Constitution Check: Who has the job of picking the candidates for
the presidency?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75077>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 12:28 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75077>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Lyle Denniston
<http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2015/08/constitution-check-who-has-the-job-of-picking-the-candidates-for-the-presidency/>at
Constitution Daily.
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“The Unfortunate Evolution of the Voting Rights Act; A great law
that protected minority voters has in recent decades become a sword
for politicians in both parties.” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75072>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 12:23 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75072>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Edward Blum WSJ oped.
<http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-unfortunate-evolution-of-the-voting-rights-act-1438813569>
The correction to the story is incorrect. Justice Thomas did not write
for the majority inHolder v. Hall
<https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5399157163793733966&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr>.
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“Roberts’ iffy support for voting rights”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75070>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 10:17 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75070>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here is my 2005 LA Times
oped<http://articles.latimes.com/2005/aug/03/opinion/oe-hasen3>on Chief
Justice Roberts’ role in working for the Reagan administration against
the expansion of the Voting Rights Act in 1982 (the expansion which
created Section 2 as we know it today, which was used to strike down
Texas’s voter law yesterday). The oped concludes:
When Congress reauthorizes Section 5, will the Supreme Court uphold
it against charges that it tramples states’ rights? Some worry the
court may not.
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s votes in these federalism cases have
been pivotal, and her vote in 2004 to uphold a provision of the
Americans with Disabilities Act had given those in the civil rights
community grounds to be optimistic that a renewed Voting Rights Act
could pass constitutional muster.
Roberts’ writings, on the other hand, show much more skepticism of
congressional power, particularly on voting rights. Because Roberts
viewed the “effects” language in Section 2 as an “intrusive
interference” that is a “drastic alteration” of American government
and “constitutionally suspect,” why would he look charitably on a
renewed Section 5?
I would not count on him to uphold it.
We all now know how that story ends, withJohn Roberts in the starring
role
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/opinion/the-chief-justices-long-game.html>.
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“For Latinos, 1965 Voting Rights Act Impact Came A Decade Later”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75068>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 9:25 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75068>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NBC News reports.
<http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latinos-1965-voting-rights-act-impact-came-decade-later-n404936>
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“The Original Voter Suppression Data: The Numbers Behind the 1965
Voting Rights Act” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75066>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 9:19 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75066>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Jon Sherman
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-sherman/the-original-voter-suppre_b_7948292.html>:
After a long and difficult battle culminating in the Selma to
Montgomery March, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) was born 50 years ago
today. Previous efforts had failed to curb racial discrimination in
voting, but the VRA’s passage marked the beginning of a new era. As
we commemorate this singular achievement of the Civil Rights
Movement and think about the inspiring stories of the people who
worked to pass this legislation, the Fair Elections Legal Network
(FELN) sought to revisit the numbers behind the VRA’s most
innovative and transformative provision: mandatory preclearance of
all voting changes for certain states and jurisdictions.
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“State Legislatures Adjourning, But Voting Rights Still Center
Stage” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75064>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 9:17 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75064>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Goldfeder and Perez
<http://www.stroock.com/siteFiles/Publications/StateLegislaturesAdjourningButVotingRightsStillCenterStage.pdf>for
NYLJ.
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Posted inVoting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
2 PM Eastern: President Obama in Video Conference of VRA 50th
Anniversary <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75061>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 8:51 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75061>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/president-obama-participates-video-conference-commemorate-50th-anniversary-voting-rights-act>:
“President Obama Participates in a Video Conference to Commemorate the
50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. The President will be joined
by Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Congressman John Lewis, along
with advocates and officials who have worked to strengthen and protect
Americans’ right to vote.”
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GOP Statement on Voting Rights Act Celebrates Early Voting, While
GOP Legislators Cut It Back <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75056>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 8:38 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75056>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Republican National Committeestatement
<https://gop.com/rnc-statement-on-50th-anniversary-of-voting-rights-act/> on
the 50 anniversary of Voting Rights Act:
“The Voting Rights Act of 1965 enjoyed broad Republican support, but
protecting citizens’ right to vote in free and fair elections is not
merely a Republican priority. It is an American priority. Today, as
we enjoy more access to the polls – through early, absentee and
weekend voting – than in past decades, we celebrate the sacrifice,
accomplishments, and memory of those who made it possible.”
Yet in North Carolina
<http://harvardlawreview.org/2014/01/race-or-party-how-courts-should-think-about-republican-efforts-to-make-it-harder-to-vote-in-north-carolina-and-elsewhere/>,
Ohio, Wisconsin (where Priebus is from) and elsewhere, Republican
legislators have voted to cut back early voting, and to impose
additional voting restrictions, such as more onerous voter
identification laws.
Nor is the GOP supporting efforts to amend the Voting Rights Act after
the Supreme Court’s 2013 opinion in /Shelby County v. Holder/gutting a
key part of it.
Here is the full statement:
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“How to Save the Voting Rights Act”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74899>
Posted onAugust 6, 2015 7:30 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74899>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
[bumping to the top for today’s 50th anniversary of the VRA; see alsomy
coverage<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74972>of yesterday’s very
important 5th Circuit Texas voter id ruling.]
I have writtenthis
piece<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/08/how_to_save_the_voting_rights_act_voting_rights_shouldn_t_rely_on_parsing.html>for
/Slate/. It begins:
In 2010, the/Simpsons/featured a news helicopter
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/22/simpsons-mocks-fox-news-racist_n_786712.html>emblazoned
with the logo: “FOX News: Not Racist, But #1 with Racists.” That
slogan might be applied to today’s Republican Party, which in recent
years has actively passed voting laws that make it harder for poor
and minority voters to vote. Whether to label the Republican Party
“racist” isn’t an academic exercise. The question is actually at the
heart of lawsuits over the future of voting rights in Texas and
North Carolina. It’s also a question with historical resonance,
particularly on the eve of the Voting Rights Act’s 50^th anniversary
this week.
The five-decade history of the Voting Rights Act is told masterfully
in Ari Berman’s new book,/Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle
for Voting Rights in America/
<http://www.amazon.com/dp/0374158274/?tag=slatmaga-20>. Berman
starts around the time of the Selma, Alabama, marches, but unlike
the movie /Selma/
<http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V8Z7E1Y/?tag=slatmaga-20>, Berman goes
on to give us the rest of the history: the expansion of voting
rights protections in 1970 and 1975 to include Latinos, Native
Americans, and others over the objections of racists, many in the
Democratic Party; the important 1982 rewriting of Section 2 of the
Voting Rights Act, providing additional protections for minority
voters nationally, and (now Chief Justice) John Roberts’ key role
for the Reagan administration in unsuccessfully fighting against the
expansion; hot disputes over voting rights in Florida in the 2000
election; the controversial renewal of the expiring “preclearance
provisions” of the act in 2006 that continued to require states with
a history of discrimination to get federal approval before changing
their voting laws; and the ongoing “voting wars
<http://www.amazon.com/The-Voting-Wars-Election-Meltdown/dp/0300198248>”
that accelerated when Roberts led the court’s conservatives in
striking down the 2006 preclearance renewal in/Shelby County v.
Holder/ <https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/570/12-96/>.
Berman’s book, likeJim Rutenberg’s excellent cover story
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/magazine/voting-rights-act-dream-undone.html?_r=0>for
the/New York Times Magazine/on the 50^th anniversary of the Voting
Rights Act, views the struggles over voting rules primarily through
the lens of race. And although that is an essential lens to apply,
it downplays the growing role of partisan politics in this story, a
partisan struggle that is having profound ramifications for the
newest wave of court cases involving voting restrictions. Put
simply, the Republican Party has reasons unrelated to racial animus
to push new voting restrictions.
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