The Supreme Court’s ruling eviscerating Section 2 of the landmark law is only part of its project.
Shelby County v. Holder
Posted inProtecting the Vote
The Court v. The Voters
Joshua Douglas’s sterling new book examines the most important Supreme Court cases on voting rights in the last 50 years and suggests ways we can correct this “hard turn toward anti-democracy.”
Posted inProtecting the Vote
A Body Blow to the Voting Rights Act
Individual plaintiffs can’t sue under the landmark 1965 statue, rules a federal appeals court, shattering judicial precedent.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Roberts Court Takes Aim at the Voting Rights Act
In a case it will hear next week, the Court could side with Alabama and deliver a devastating blow to the landmark civil rights law.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Supreme Court’s Alabama Disaster
An evening ruling undoing the work of Trump- and Clinton-appointed judges harms Black voters—and shows an activist conservative Court bent on narrowing voting rights.
Posted inPolitical Animal
America Coming Together
In the name of stopping Donald Trump, will Mitt Romney formally endorse Hillary Clinton? The prospect of a Romney endorsement of the Democratic nominee should not be considered far-fetched. The 2012 Republican nominee surely must know that it might not be sufficient for him to denounce the Donald; if he seriously wants to convince those […]
Posted inPolitical Animal
Journey to the Center
Who knew that Bernie Sanders’s appointees to the Democratic platform committee were into self-mutilation? How else does one explain their willingness to cut off their noses to spite their faces? I don’t quite understand the logic of trying to force the platform to adopt every last one of the Vermont Senator’s preferred issues, in particular […]
