Here is the complaint in Spirit Lake Tribe v. Jaeger (D. N.D.):
Indian country voting rights
Tristan Ahtone: “Democrats, Don’t Take Native American Voters for Granted”
From the New York Times, here.
Slate: “North Dakota’s Voter ID Law Will Disenfranchise Thousands of Native Americans, Imperiling Heitkamp”
SCOTUS Refuses to Stay New Election Rules in North Dakota Voting Rights Act Matter . . .
Despite the fact that the primary has already been held under the other rules.
Here is the order in Brakebill v. Jaeger, with the dissent by RBG and Kagan:
Prior posts here.
Brakebill v. Jaeger SCOTUS Application for Stay
Split Eighth Circuit Stays Lower Court Order Favoring Indian Voting Rights
Split Ninth Circuit Panel Approves Voting Rules in Arizona Intended to Make Voting Harder for People of Color
Here is the opinion in Democratic National Committee v. Reagan.
An excerpt from Chief Judge Thomas’ dissent:
“No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live.” Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1, 17 (1964). Our right to vote benefits government as much as it benefits us: a representative democracy requires participation, and the people require representatives accountable to them. Arizona’s electoral scheme impedes this ideal and has the effect of disenfranchising Arizonans of African American, Hispanic, and Native American descent.
Arizona’s policy of wholly discarding—rather than partially counting—votes cast out-of-precinct has a disproportionate effect on racial and ethnic minority groups. It violates § 2 of the Voting Rights Act (“VRA”), and it unconstitutionally burdens the right to vote guaranteed by the First Amendment and incorporated against the states under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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