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In dramatic ruling, federal judge pierces Jacksonville City Council's lies
COMMENTARY | U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard on Monday struck down a new map of Jacksonville City Council districts drawn by city officials under a court order, finding the map "embedded rather than remedied" entrenched racial segregation City Hall has perpetuated for decades through the drawing of such districts.
Federal judge hands Jacksonville major defeat in redistricting case
Judge Marcia Howard selected a remedial council district map drawn by the plaintiffs in the case, rejecting the map submitted by the city.
Plaintiffs ask court to reject Jacksonville City Council’s redrawn map
Civil-rights organizations offer three alternative City Council district maps for the federal court’s consideration.
Council to discuss next move following judge’s decision on Jacksonville’s newly-drawn districts
Federal judge threw out map in racial gerrymandering lawsuit, orders new map by Nov. 8
‘Racial segregation’: Federal judge blocks Jacksonville City Council districts as racial gerrymanders)
A federal judge has barred Jacksonville from using its City Council and Duval School Board district maps, finding that seven City Council and three School Board districts were likely racially gerrymandered.
Judge strikes down three Montana voting laws as unconstitutional
Election Day registration, paid ballot collection and using campus-issued IDs back on the table
Court Strikes Down Two Montana Laws That Restrict Native American Voting Rights
BILLINGS, MT – A Montana court recently struck down as unconstitutional two state laws that hinder Native American participation in the state’s electoral process.
Election Law Clinic presents oral arguments in Jacksonville racial gerrymandering case
On Friday, September 16, Election Law Clinic clinical instructor Daniel Hessel led the plaintiff’s oral arguments during Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP v. City of Jacksonville’s preliminary injunction hearing, arguing against the use of racially biased redistricting maps in the 2023 and 2024 city council and school board elections.
Lawyers suing over Jacksonville City Council redistricting want injunction before '23 vote
Lawyers arguing new boundaries for Jacksonville’s City Council districts are unconstitutionally gerrymandered asked a federal judge Friday to block use of half of the 14 districts during the spring elections.
Lawsuit calls on Colorado Springs to move April elections to November to address racial disparities
The city of Colorado Springs is facing a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in local elections.
A lawsuit filed against the City of Jacksonville…
A lawsuit filed against the City of Jacksonville and Duval County Supervisor of Elections Mike Hogan this week claims a new redistricting plan reduces the impact of the Black vote in minority-dominated areas of Jacksonville.
Weighing President Biden’s first year: Voting and election
Harvard Law School election law expert Ruth Greenwood applauds the administration’s support for new voting legislation but says the filibuster remains an obstacle
Challenges to the Voting Rights Act far from over
“If it hadn’t been for the Gorsuch line in Brnovich, I would have thought it was kind of a crazy argument,” said Ruth Greenwood, director of the Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School, of the Texas brief.
The algorithm has primacy over media … over each of us, and it controls what we do
Experts on a Harvard Law School panel warn that Facebook and Google have already damaged democracy.
Lawsuit dislodges election dates from DeSantis
Theresa Lee with Harvard’s Election Law Center and one of the lawyers representing voters who sued DeSantis said in an email that while everyone is “thrilled” the lawsuit “forced the governor’s hand to carry out the duties of his office”
Following a lawsuit filed by the Election Law Clinic, Governor Ron DeSantis called special elections for three majority-Black legislative districts, to be held in early 2022.
After ninety-one days of inaction, Governor Ron DeSantis finally called special elections for three majority-Black legislative districts with Executive Order No. 21-224. The Election Law Clinic previously filed a lawsuit to compel the Governor to fulfill this duty.
Facing lawsuit, DeSantis sets special elections for South Florida legislative races
DeSantis, a Republican, was accused of waiting too long to set election dates to fill the vacancies in a lawsuit filed 12 days ago by the Harvard Election Law Clinic on behalf of Broward and Palm Beach voters.
ELC Files Friend of the Court Brief on Behalf of Five Former Whitford Plaintiffs Urging Court Not to Bake in Last Decade’s Partisan Gerrymander for Another Ten Years
The Wisconsin Legislature and its allies have asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to redraw the State’s map in a way that would solidify the State’s 2011 partisan gerrymander for the next decade. ELC is representing five plaintiffs from Whitford v. Gill as amici curiae who want to ensure that the Wisconsin Supreme Court does not perpetuate the gerrymander under the guise of a “least-change” approach.
Republicans unveil proposed redistricting maps based largely on existing boundaries
Republican leaders on Wednesday unveiled their proposal for legislative and congressional district maps, which received immediate criticism for being based largely on existing GOP-drawn districts that have helped Republicans hold strong majorities in both chambers.
Lawsuit asks court to make DeSantis call special elections
The Governor refuses to perform his statutory duty to fix the dates of special elections to fill three vacancies in majority-Black legislative districts, as the law requires.