Voting Rights Act & Redistricting Issues
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Legislative developments and continued judicial engagement with Voting Rights Act issues will be covered here. Also addressed will be other issues in redistricting, such as the unsettled state of questions about the Supreme Court's direction on partisan gerrymandering.

Certain Un-Certainties, About the Voting Rights Act  3/10/09

“Vote Fraud” and the Question of Denial  8/13/08

Voters and the Question of their “Confidence in the System”  6/9/08

The Trivial and the Significant in Riley v. Kennedy  5/28/08

The Question of Election Day Equity  4/17/08

California Redistricting Reform: Replacing Retired Judges With…. Well, It’s All Very Complicated  10/25/07

Hebert Contra von Spakovsky  6/8/07

Voter Politics: the High Drama of Bad Intentions  5/30/07

Voting Fraud and the Offense of Littering in the Jurisprudence of Richard Posner  5/3/07

A Hard Shot at von Spakovsky  2/21/07

One Surprising Voice for (One Kind of) Reform  11/21/06

Lessons about and for the Voters, Learned from 2006  11/15/06

Voter Injury  11/2/06

Voter ID: The Missouri Supreme Court Evaluates Legislative "Foresight"  10/17/06

Voter ID and Citizen “Capacity”  9/20/06

Injury to the Vote; Injury to the Voters  9/13/06

"Voter Identification” and Its Functions  9/12/06

At Weekend: Scholars at Odds with Politicians, Interest Groups at Odds with the Government  7/21/06

How Congressional Elections May Have Become Competitive: Reflections From Tom Mann  7/17/06

Voting Rights Act Politics  7/12/06

"Bailing Out" and the Voting Rights Act  7/11/06

After Both Came Down: the Jurisprudence of Competition in the Wake of the Vermont and Texas Cases  6/29/06

Texas: Justice Kennedy in Limbo  6/28/06

Texas II: The Justices and Their Politics  6/28/06

The Perils and Politics of “Compromise” on Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act  6/23/06

Thinking about the Politics of Georgia v. Ashcroft and its Critics  6/20/06

As the ACS Conference Ends: The Question of the Progressive Vision of Reform  6/19/06

The “Modernizers” of the Voting Rights Act  6/12/06

Hard Knocks on the Harvard Economists  6/8/06

The Mysteries of “Competitive” Politics?  6/2/06

Anticipating the Supreme Court on Voting Rights  5/31/06

The Measurements of a Better Politics  5/23/06

The Uses of Hearings and the Strength of the “Deal” in the Renewal of the VRA  5/16/06

The Constitutional Politics of the Voting Rights Act Reauthorization  5/4/06

April in Election Law; or Bush v. Gore Looks Pretty Good After All these Years  4/24/06

Curbing Politics at the Department of Justice—or Maybe Not  2/6/06

Reform in California and the "Citizens Assembly"  12/21/05

“Excessive Partisanship” and the Problem of Means  12/15/05

Staff Problems  12/5/05

DOJ Weighs the Pros and Cons of Voting Rights  11/17/05

Redistricting Reform Blues  11/16/05

"Real Reform"  11/10/05

The Week So Far: IDs and Leadership PACs  10/19/05

The Goal of More Competition, with Less Money, in California  10/13/05

Carter-Baker on the Morning After  9/20/05

Senator Obama, along with Senators Reid, Dodd, and Others, Introduce Resolution Against Voter Photo Identification Requirement  9/20/05

Carter-Baker Commission Arrives  9/19/05

Roberts: More Voting Rights and Even More Stare Decisis  9/14/05

Judges and Voters Under Prop 77  9/13/05

Roberts on the Voting Rights Act  9/13/05

Voter Identification Requirements and the True "Middle Ground"  9/8/05

Fraud  8/30/05