Ashley Lopez: In a little-reported announcement on Nov. 9, the Supreme Court of the United States announced it would take a second look at the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a law aimed at protecting the voting rights of minorities.

Ashley Lopez: Despite a federal court decision striking down the state’s reduction of early voting days in five counties, Gov. Rick Scott is asking all 67 counties to cut them anyway.

Ashley Lopez: The federal court tasked with pre-clearing Florida’s new election law ruled on Thursday that the state’s cuts to early voting days could disproportionately hurt minority voters.

Ashley Lopez: A state senator, the ACLU of Florida and the National Council of La Raza filed a legal challenge against the state for having two sets of voting laws in Florida.

Ashley Lopez: Yet again, Gov. Rick Scott and state officials are telling the Justice Department that they are wrong about voting rights.

Ashley Lopez: In big news this week was an announcement by the League of Women Voters and Rock the Vote that they will resume voter registration in Florida.

Howard Goodman: The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered Florida to halt its effort to purge noncitizens from the voter rolls.

Howard Goodman: Palm Beach and Hillsborough counties refuse to participate in Gov. Rick Scott’s scrubbing of the voter rolls because of inaccuracies in the list of suspected “noncitizens.”

Ralph De La Cruz: State Sen. Alan Hays said in a Senate Reapportionment Committee meeting that Florida needs to make certain Hispanics are citizens because “many Hispanic-speaking people in Florida are not legal.”