Six months from midterms, Latinos should pay more attention to voting, voting rights
Six months from midterms, Latinos should pay more attention to voting, voting rights
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Reports about immigration get a disproportionate amount of attention in Latino media and in the mainstream media’s attempts to cover the Latino community – and deservedly […]
Court strikes down Wisconsin voter-ID law
*The important thing here is that the Federal Judge struck-down voter ID in Wisconsin on the basis of what’s left of the Voting Rights Act – Section 2, which prohibits […]
Why Latinos Should Care About Voting
*There is no silver Latino vote bullet. If the Latino vote is to increase (or even think of reaching its potential) a concerted effort of many people, in many groups, […]
North Carolina Tea Party Uses Dog Whistle Politics to Challenge Minority Voters
*This story caught my attention because of its “dog whistle” pattern. It comes from Ashville, North Carolina, not too far from the Appalachian Trail. Ashville’s population is almost 69,ooo – […]
The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Now a bipartisan gang wants to put it back together.
By Dylan Matthews, The Washington Post It’s rare that you can get Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and John Conyers (D-Mich.) to agree on much of anything. The former, after all, introduced […]
A Third Legal Challenge to Texas Voter ID Law
By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune Two groups representing minority voters and officeholders sued to block the state’s new voter ID law, which will be used for the first time […]
Texas AG says lawyer advised Latinos to break Voter ID law
By Christy Hoppe, Dallas Morning News Attorney General Greg Abbott accused a lawyer for Hispanic legislators of providing unethical advice to Latino voters by suggesting they ignore state law and […]
North Carolina legislature approves restrictive voting measures, Latino groups worried
By Adriana Maestas, NBCLatino The North Carolina Senate passed HB 589, one of the most restrictive voter ID measures in the nation. It permits only permits 7 kinds of ID – […]
AG opens new front on voting rights protection
By Associated Press/Los Angeles Times Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday the Justice Department is opening a new front in the battle for voting rights in response to a Supreme Court ruling […]
SCOTUS and the VRA: “Tossing the umbrella in the rain”
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco You knew the dark clouds were gathering last February when Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that extending Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act was […]
