by Press | Aug 7, 2016 | Newsclips
Donald Trump is making voter ID laws part of the 2016 debate. While some have been able to overturn the laws, 13 states still have voting restrictions for the first time ever in a presidential election. Co-director of the Voting Rights Project, Marcia Johnson-Blanco,...
by Press | Aug 5, 2016 | Blog
Beginning in 2005, many states began passing overly restrictive voter identification laws; laws that limit the types of identification that that voters could use when voting in person. When the United States Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s law against a facial...
by Nick Diaz | Feb 23, 2016
Click here to download this fact sheet as a PDF. Voter ID Case Awaits Decision: On August 5, 2015 a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed a federal trial court’s earlier finding that Texas’s strict photo ID law- implemented...
by Press | Aug 6, 2015 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C., August 6, 2015 – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee) releases, “The VRA at 50: The Texas Voter ID Story”—a report and interactive multimedia timeline to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights...
