Black voters are pressing SCOTUS to apply the Purcell principle of law, which says voting rules and maps shouldn’t be changed too close to an election.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s (R) suspension of active elections after the Supreme Court deemed the state’s congressional map unconstitutional has ignited confusion and a flurry of lawsuits across the Bayou State. Here’s where things stand.
Florida voters and pro-voting group Equal Ground Education Fund filed a lawsuit challenging the GOP’s new congressional gerrymander, urging a court to block the map for violating the state constitution’s ban on partisan gerrymandering.
Legal experts, voting rights advocates, and even the VRA’s loudest foes all agree with Justice Elena Kagan: “[I]n fact, those ‘updates’ eviscerate the law.”
It’s no exaggeration to say this was among the worst weeks for voting rights in our history.
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act, another set of laws is also in danger: state-level statutes that seek to bar racially discriminatory voting practices.
A federal judge ordered the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to turn over key details behind its seizure of 2020 election records in Fulton County, Georgia — rejecting the government’s effort to keep that information secret.
Louisiana officials made clear Thursday that the state’s primaries will be postponed so lawmakers can draw a new congressional map in response to Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act.
The legal cases are primarily concentrated in the South, where America’s legacy of racial discrimination still casts the longest shadow over voting rights.
Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement.