The Plot to Subvert an Election: Unraveling the Russia Story So Far
From today’s New York Times: ON AN OCTOBER AFTERNOON BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION, a huge banner was unfurled from the Manhattan Bridge in New York City: Vladimir V. Putin against…
Clear and troubling picture of voter suppression: ‘One Person, No Vote’
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Near the end of “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy,” Carol Anderson reminds us that “voting is neither an obstacle…
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Appeals court rules North Carolina’s electoral map unconstitutional, map may have to be redrawn before midterms
From today’s Washington Post: A panel of three federal judges held Monday that North Carolina’s congressional districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to favor Republicans over Democrats and said it may require…
How will federal appeals court rule on Florida felon voting rights case?
From today’s Miami Herald: Yraida Guanipa, a Miami consultant, stood outside the federal appeals court Wednesday morning in downtown Atlanta dressed in a bright orange scarf draped over a smart…
Drive Against Gerrymandering Finds New Life in Ballot Initiatives
From today’s New York Times: The movement to take politics out of setting legislative district boundaries seemed to suffer a grievous, and perhaps even mortal, blow this spring when the…
Voter purge frenzy after federal protections lifted, new report says
From today’s NBC News: Nine states with a history of racial discrimination are more aggressively removing registered voters from their rolls than other states, according to a report released Friday.…
Local News: Why Santa Monica is fighting the California Voting Rights Act
From today’s Los Angeles Times: By Ted Winterer (Santa Monica Mayor) and Gleam Davis (City Council Rep), The city of Santa Monica received a letter from a Malibu law firm…
SCOTUS defers gerrymandering ruling
From today’s New York Times: The Supreme Court declined on Monday to address the central questions in two closely watched challenges to partisan gerrymandering, putting off for another time a…
Frustrated Supreme Court Looks For A Solution To Partisan Gerrymandering
From today’s NPR News: The Supreme Court justices seemed to grasp the problem of gerrymandering in oral arguments on Wednesday and that it will only get worse, as computer-assisted redistricting…
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A Flurry of Courts Have Ruled on Election Maps. Here’s What They’ve Said
From today’s New York Times: Judges in a number of states have recently thrown out election maps, saying that they have been gerrymandered to the point of being unconstitutional, effectively…