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GOP assault on voting rights

Richard L. Hasen (UC-Irvine): Race or Party, Party as Race, or Party All the Time: Three Uneasy Approaches to Conjoined Polarization in Redistricting and Voting Cases. Do voter identification laws suppress minority voting? Yes. New study confirms that voter ID laws are very racist — but the Supreme Court probably won't care. One rationale for voter ID debunked, G.O.P. has another. Francis Wilkinson on the Kansas model for voter-fraud bluffing (and more). E.J. Dionne Jr. on the next GOP assault on voting rights. The Trump administration's lies about voter fraud lead to massive voter suppression.