Updates | The Week of April 10, 2017
Derek Reinbold // 4/16/17 //
On Monday, a federal judge in Texas found that the Texas Voter ID law was passed with discriminatory purpose, in violation of the Voting Rights Act (NYT, WaPo, Dallas News, Election Law Blog).
- The decision can be found here.
- More information about the legal history of the Texas Voter ID case can be found here and here.
The Trump Administration’s plans for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division raises grave concerns, explain Joshua Matz and Leah Litman at Take Care.
Despite a shift by Trump's DOJ, courts are still rooting out racial discrimination in state laws relating to districting and voter identification, writes Danielle Lang (Take Care).
The internal review of Civil Rights Division consent decrees threatens its value as an unbiased source, argues Nikolas Bowie (Take Care).
The Department of Justice under Attorney General Jeff Sessions is “blinding itself to injustice,” argues Renée Graham (Boston Globe).
The Trump Administration’s proposal to eliminate federal financing for the Legal Services Corporation will have grave consequences for low-income citizens, writes Dorothy Samuels at The American Prospect.