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Voter suppression has a long, ugly, and racist history in the United States. In the time leading up to, and post the 2020 Presidential election, we have witnessed it resurface with a vengeance. States have put barriers in front of the ballot box — imposing strict voter ID laws, cutting voting times, restricting registration, and purging voter rolls. These tactics received a boost when the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act in 2013. have kept significant numbers of eligible voters from the polls. hitting all Americans, but placing special burdens on racial minorities, poor people, and young and old voters.
In 2021 alone, eighteen states have enacted 30 laws that restrict access to the vote. These laws make mail voting and early voting more difficult, impose harsher voter ID requirements, and make faulty voter purges more likely, among other things. More than 400 bills with provisions that restrict voting access have been introduced in 49 states in the 2021 legislative sessions. This wave of restrictions on voting — the most aggressive we have seen in more than a decade of tracking state voting laws — is in large part motivated by false and often racist allegations about voter fraud.
We will participate in National Voter Registration Day, March On for Voting Rights, and advocate for the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act which would protect voters by preventing new discriminatory laws from being implemented.
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2022 by National Bar Association | Young Lawyers Division
Monette M. Davis is an associate attorney at Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann L.L.C. in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is a New Orleans native. She currently assist clients with fiduciary litigation, insurance defense, and family law matters. Monette joined Stone Pigman in 2019 and serves as a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, New Orleans Bar Association, the New Orleans Chapter Federal Bar Association, and GNO Louis A. Martinet Legal Society.
Monette attended Dillard University where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology/Criminal Justice in May 2013, and attended Southern University Law Center where she received her Juris Doctor degree in May 2019. She was inspired to become an attorney by her father when she was a teenager. However, when her oldest sister was murdered in New Orleans in 2011 as a result of domestic violence, her desire for the legal profession increased. With this travesty, Monette’s continuous aspiration is to be a change in Louisiana and provide a space
where people can rely and believe that they won’t be failed by the justice system.
Congratulations, Monette M. Davis