08

Dec

Equal Protection, LAW, NEWS, POLICY and PRACTICE, Race in Redistricting, Racial Gerrymandering, Redistricting, Redistricting Gerrymanders, Redistricting Litigation, Redistricting Race RulesAlabama, scotus, States

Listen: Supreme Court Oral Argument in Alabama Racial Gerrymander Case

By Editor

  Listen to the Supreme Court's oral arguments in the consolidated cases; Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama and  Alabama Democratic Conference v. Alabama. Democratic lawmakers in the Alabama legislature claim the…

08

Dec

Redistricting, Redistricting Gerrymanders, Redistricting Litigation, Redistricting Race RulesAlabama, scotus

Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Alabama Gerrymander is a Racial or Partisan One.

By Editor

NPR previews Ala. Legis. Black Caucus v. Alabama; a claim alleging that the Alabama state legislature's 2010 legislative redistricting map is a racial gerrymander. Alabama says the Voting Rights Act…

30

Jul

Redistricting, Redistricting Litigation, Redistricting Race Rules

One Year After Shelby, Growing Focus Toward Local Elections

By Editor

Since the Supreme Court invalidated the Department of Justices’ authority to enforce the preclearance requirements of section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, voting rights organizations including the NAACP Legal…

21

Jul

Redistricting, Redistricting Litigationfeatured

Video: Senate Committee Ponders Life After Shelby and the VRAA

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July 21, 2014 Lately, the voting rights world has made the sharp distinction between voting rights before the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby v. Holder dismantling section 5 of the…

31

Jan

Redistricting, Redistricting Race Rules, Strategy and Politics2020, majority-minority districts

2020 Vision : A Noteworthy Prediction for Redistricting in the Next Cycle

By Editor

We are just three years into the decade long redistricting cycle that began with the 2010 census. It is a cycle that begins with sorting through winners and losers of…

28

Jan

Redistricting, Redistricting Litigation

Is the Proposed Voting Rights Act Amendment Constitutionally Defective?

By Editor

The recently proposed Voting Rights Act Amendment (VRAA) embodies the ambitious purpose of not only reanimating federal preclearance provisions invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court this past summer, but it…

23

Jan

Redistricting, Redistricting Litigation, Uncategorized

Congress Makes First Attempt at Voting Rights Act Amendment

By Editor

Photo: David Sachs Last week U.S. Rep Jim Sensenbrenner   introduced the Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 (VRAA); a bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in an…

18

Nov

Redistricting CommissionsAlaska

Judge Upholds Alaska Redistricting Board’s Legislative Map

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Fairbanks - A judge on Monday tossed out two challenges to the Alaska Redistricting Board's latest legislative map, ruling that the 2014 election can go ahead with its 60 new…

16

Oct

Redistricting, Redistricting LitigationNorth Carolina

Voting Rights and Campaign Finance Intersect in NC Lawsuit

By Editor

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the NC Legislature's redistricting map have requested for a second time that one of three judges on the panel hearing the case recuse himself. That…