Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
Countdown Day 16: Conservatives Call for Support of the Voting Rights Act Amendment The Voting Rights Amendment Act (“VRAA”), H. 3899 and S. 1945, is the bipartisan Congressional response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder. The VRAA has strong Republican support. When the Court issued Shelby County last June, Republicans in Congress immediately identified the need to respond to the decision: […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
Countdown Day 15: In the Wake of Shelby County Ruling, Local Officials Fly Under the Radar with Discriminatory Changes to Voting Rules Nearly one year after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, much of the discussion around its devastating effects has been focused on statewide voting law changes such as voter ID. This […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
Countdown Day 14: Voting Rights Act: Sikhs, Asian Americans need protection For the Sikh-American community and greater Asian-Pacific Islander American community, the fight for the rights of citizenship, including the right to vote, is a critical part of our history in the United States. In 1922, Takao Ozawa, a 20-year resident of the U.S., and […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
Countdown Day 13: New Report Finds Urgent Need for Fix to Combat Modern Day Voting Discrimination Against Latino Voters Nationwide The joint NALEO/MALDEF/NHLA report found egregious and far-reaching voting discrimination at every stage of the voting process; More than 7.8 million Latino voters are expected to head to the polls this November, making it critical for […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
Countdown Day 12: Below are Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and Charles Ogletree’s initial reactions to the Supreme Court Decision in Shelby County, vs. Alabama. These brief op-eds were published in the Washington Post on June 25, 2013. JOHN LEWIS Democratic representative from Georgia The Supreme Court has stuck a dagger into the heart of the Voting Rights […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
Countdown Day 1: Testimony of Sherrilyn Ifill Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Hearing on “The Voting Rights Amendment Act, S. 1945: Updating the Voting Rights Act in Response to Shelby County v. Holder” Ifill Senate Committeee Tes… by on Scribd
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court struck down one of the most important provisions of the Voting Rights Act, leaving millions of […]
Sunday, January 30, 2011 | news
For black residents and their lawyers, diluting the strength of any one black voter is problematic. “If there has been a discriminatory voting change, it is not absolved because there have been ten or one hundred non-discriminatory changes; the act of discrimination is still odious,” wrote lawyers for the defendants who intervened in the case, […]
Friday, September 17, 2010 | news
Shelby County's challenge to theconstitutionality of portions of the Voting Rights Act got on a faster legal track Thursday when a federal judge in Washington denied a government request for more fact-finding. Shelby County's claim that two key sections of the landmark law — requiring certain states and cities to get their election procedures pre-approved […]
Thursday, February 3, 2011 | news
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Shelby County asked a federal judge in Washington today to declare two key parts of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional because Congress relied on old voting statistics when it extended the historic civil rights law for another 25 years. “Certainly it was rational for Congress to choose to stay the course […]
