When Governor Rick Scott of Florida announced plans to purge noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls in May, Florida was hit with two lawsuits the next month claiming that the process was flawed and would result in naturalized citizens losing their right to vote.
To defend the state, the Republican governor immediately reached out to Jones Day partner Michael Carvin. The appellate and civil litigator is known as much for his voting rights experience as he is for his GOP bona fides. Carvin is a former deputy attorney general of civil rights under Ronald Reagan; he represented George W. Bush’s campaign during the 2000 Florida recount; and last Spring he argued one of the oral arguments against “Obamacare” before the U.S. Supreme Court.
