Fight Over Restoring Voting Rights to Prior Felons Intensifies
After years of efforts by many to help convicted felons restore their voting rights after their sentences are served, some states are pushing back.
Tagged: Voting rights
Filibuster Rule Change For Voting Rights Legislation Fails 52-48 in Senate
A much-discusses and doomed-to-fail vote to change the filibuster rule regarding voting rights legislation failed in the US Senate Wednesday night 52-48
Senate To Take Up Voting Rights Packages, But Still Short of Votes Needed
The focus of the returning U.S. Senate will be on voting rights starting today, but Majority Leader Schumer is still publicly without the votes need to pass any of the several piece of legislation under consideration.
OT Contributor Network: Em Carpenter Lawsplaining SCOTUS, Voting Rights, Cosby, and #FreeBritney
Em Carpenter is lawsplaining SCOTUS on voting rights, Cosby’s vacated sentence, and the legal technicalities of #freeBritney
HR 1 ‘For the People Act ’’ Passed In the House: Read It For Yourself
HR 1 “For the People Act” is a 791 page monster of a bill. But through the power of PDF it is searchable, so read it for yourself.
Ballots Behind Bars
Prisoners may not pay taxes, but they do live in full service complexes with close ties to all levels of government, dependent on the funding and mechanisms of government at all levels.
The First Day of Amendment 4 for Re-enfranchised Voters
Tuesday, 9 January 2019, is the first day that some felons in Florida who previously had their voting rights removed can register to vote again under the effects of Amendment 4. The question is how exactly is that going to work?
SCOTUS Upholds Ohio’s Voter Purge Practices
The case involved the practice in Ohio of purging voters who have not voted in several years and who fail to return a notice card confirming their address. The case, Husted v Randolph Institute, et al., concerned whether the practice violated the National Voter Registration Act. SCOTUS says it does not.
United States Court of Appeals For The Fourth Circuit
In this one statute, the North Carolina legislature imposed a number of voting restrictions. The law required in-person voters to show certain photo IDs, beginning in 2016, which African Americans disproportionately lacked, and eliminated or reduced registration and voting access tools that African Americans disproportionately used. Id. at *9-10, *37, *123, *127, *131. Moreover, as the district court found, prior to enactment of SL 2013-381, the legislature requested and received racial data as to usage of the practices changed by the proposed law.
The Big Case Drops Early
No Scalia? No problem! When all eight of the surviving SCOTUS Justices agree on the result, we’re sure to get a nice, clear, definite rule of law… right?
Marquee Case On The Docket: Evenwel v. Abbott
One case to rule them all, One Court to mind them,
One rule to govern the States and in its holdings bind them,
In the Land of Washington where the Justices decide.
First Monday 2014
Same cast, brand new season! Burt Likko offers a look at some of the high points of the Supreme Court’s docket for the 2014-2015 Term.
The Republican Takeover of North Carolina
Republicans may be floundering at the national level, but here in North Carolina the party is alive and well and intent on imposing its radical right agenda over considerable opposition. But can they retain their control over the state?
Big Monday 2013
Today is the last scheduled day for decisions and opinions scheduled by the Supreme Court. In the comments to this post, I’ll be glossing the Voting Rights Act, affirmative action, and same-sex marriage cases.*...
“Democracy Distilled” — A Brief History of US Voting Rights
While this video was sent to me a bit ago, I’d forgotten to post about it until today. I think it’s pretty cool — and with people’s access to voting having become such a...
Voter Fraud & The Inherent Corruption in Populism
There’s nothing so democratic as a lynch mob, as concerned citizens of Ohio and Pennsylvania have recently shown. In Pennsylvania this week, a judge upheld Act 18-2012, the now-famous piece of anti-voter-fraud legislation. Voter...
