Texas is the Voter Suppression State
From today’s New York Times: For those of you keeping track of the “As Texas goes, so goes the nation” notion, I have either very good or very bad news.…
CBO estimates shutdown cost $11 billion, $3 billion won’t be recovered
From today’s ABC News Online: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the longest-running government shutdown in U.S. history came at a price. It cost the economy $11 billion, with…
New York legislature passes major overhaul of outdated voting laws
From today’s edition of The Hill: New York’s state legislature on Monday passed a package of election and voting reform measures aimed at overhauling one of the most restrictive regimes…
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Interactive Map: Government Shutdown Is Affecting Federal Workers in All States
From today’s New York Times: About 800,000 federal workers are furloughed or working without pay across the country because of the government shutdown, many of them concentrated in the West.…
Pence and Cabinet Members Are Due a Raise, as Federal Workers Go Unpaid
From today’s New York Times Vice President Mike Pence, members of the cabinet and other high-ranking political appointees in the Trump administration are positioned to receive a pay bump of…
Senate votes to overturn Trump’s IRS disclosure rule allowing “dark money”
From today’s Politico Online: The Senate passed legislation Wednesday to reverse a Trump administration policy limiting donor disclosure requirements for political nonprofits in a rare rebuke to the White House.…
First Wisconsin, now Michigan GOP moves to strip Democrats’ power
From today’s MSNBC News: Republicans who control Michigan’s Legislature voted Wednesday to advance a measure that strips campaign-finance oversight power from the Democratic secretary of state-elect, and they were poised…
WI Republicans Approve Bills Stripping Power From Incoming Dem. Governor
From today’s New York Times: After a rancorous, sleepless night of debate, Republican lawmakers early Wednesday pushed through a sweeping set of bills that will limit the power of Wisconsin’s…
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Georgia Set To Remain A Battleground For Voting Rights Ahead Of 2020
From today’s NPR News: When Democrat Stacey Abrams ended her bid last week to become governor of Georgia and the first black woman ever elected governor of any state, she…
Voting rights groups sue to prevent FL governor from participating in recount
From today’s Jurist Online Magazine: Voting rights groups League of Women Voters of Florida and Common Cause Florida filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking an injunction preventing Florida Governor Rick…