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…
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#VotingRights Update: Group Targets GOP States to Attack Gerrymandering
From today’s New York Times: A Democratic group backed by former President Barack Obama intends to pour millions of dollars into an eclectic array of elections in a dozen states,…
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MLK Day 2018, A Time to Reflect on Socio-Economic Injustice In All Forms
In honor of MLK Day, we post a short educational video here with excerpts from Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Baldwin that draw the connection between racial injustice and…
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In win for #VotingRights, Federal Court Rules NC Electoral Map Unconstitutional
From the New York Times: A panel of federal judges struck down North Carolina’s congressional map on Tuesday, condemning it as unconstitutional because Republicans had drawn the map seeking a…
Trump says Flynn’s actions during presidential transition were lawful
From today’s Reuter’s News Service: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that actions by his disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn during the presidential transition were lawful and…
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We’re With Stupid: On Fake News and the Literacy of America’s Electorate
From New York Times by Timothy Egan (Nov. 17, 2017): It would be much easier to sleep at night if you could believe that we’re in such a mess of…
Federal Judge Blocks Texas Effort to Suppress Minority Voters with ID Law
Yesterday a federal judge in Houston blocked the state of Texas from enacting a revised version of its “Voter ID Law.” Known as Senate Bill 5, the legislation was revised…
In MT Special Election, Voters Must Reject GOP candidate Greg Gianforte
Not only is freedom of the press under assault from the rise of “fake news” and the lack of critical thinking in this country, it is also under physical threat…