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Voting
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Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“What the hell is that? Is it Black Friday?”
...comedian Lewis Black bellows in response to a photo of people waiting in line to vote in this recent ACLU video:
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Cartoon: “Supreme Court Limits Voting Access In Ohio Case”
Jeff Danziger at The National Memo:
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“Protecting Political Participation Through the Voter Qualifications Clause of Article I”
The title of this post comes from this forthcoming article by Professor Franita Tolson, the abstract of which states: The Voter Qualifications Clause of Article I, Section 2 of the…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Legal dispute over N.C. voting laws continues in federal court on Sept. 25
On September 25, the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals will begin oral arguments in the North Carolina voting rights case* over the restrictions the Republican-controlled legislature passed in 2013. As The…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Report: Strict voter ID laws may disenfranchise many transgender citizens
The Williams Institute for the study of sexual orientation and gender identity law and policy at the UCLA School of Law issued this report finding that strict photo ID laws…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“Ballots for Bullets? Disabled Veterans and the Right to Vote”
The title of this post comes from the recent paper by Rabia Belt, the abstract of which states: Over 100,000 veterans lived in a government-funded home after the Civil War.…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Book Review: The Woman Suffrage Movement in America: A Reassessment
By Tracy Thomas
From the review:In The Woman Suffrage Movement in America: A Reassessment, Corrine M. McConnaughy sets out to “develop a general framework for understanding why politicians act to widen the democratic circle, and use…
International Law Prof Blog
ECHR Rules that UK Violated Prisoners’ Human Rights by Denying Vote
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued a judgment last week in the case of Firth and others v. United Kingdom in which it held that the United Kingdom violated the…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“(Mis)Trusting States to Run Elections”
The title of this post comes from this forthcoming paper by Professor Joshua A. Douglas, the abstract of which states: Court has done so not explicitly but through two judicial…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“The Future of Voting Rights in Indian Country Following Shelby County and Inter Tribal Council of Arizona”
The title of this post comes from this upcoming article by Professor Jeanette Wolfley, the abstract of which states: This past term the United States Supreme Court issued two decisions…