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…
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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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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…
Obama to introduce “American Jobs Act”
In a speech to a joint session of Congress tonight President Obama is expected to unveil a new White House economic strategy to bolster employment. With unemployment at 9.1 percent,…