Links of Interest: August 27-31, 2012

Elections and Judicial Performance

  • Election Law Blog analyzes the decision holding that Texas’ Voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act.

Criminal Justice

Immigration

  • ImmigrationProfBlog has this abstract of a symposium article analyzing the failure of the U.S. government on remand to seek to remove the asylum-seeker from the United States, in the context of the leading Supreme Court decision in INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca.

SCOTUSblog has excellent coverage of the Arizona case. In other post-Arizona news, FAIR also reports that Alabama has been enjoined from collecting immigration status information in K-12 classrooms.

Other Links

  • David Bernstein reacts to Judge Posner’s review of Justice Scalia’s book (written with Bryan Garner), which appeared in the New Republic.

Other reviews of the book: Slate, Above the Law, and the Wall Street Journal.

  • Feministing highlights an ACLU report prepared for the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights, finding that single-sex education programs within coeducational schools are “widely out of compliance with Title IX”.