Appeals Court Strikes Down Key Part of Voting Rights Act
From today’s CNN News: A federal appeals court on Monday ruled against a key tool used to enforce the Voting Rights Act – likely setting up another Supreme Court showdown…
From today’s CNN News: A federal appeals court on Monday ruled against a key tool used to enforce the Voting Rights Act – likely setting up another Supreme Court showdown…
From today’s Slate Magazine: In Tennessee, Jim Crow is alive and well. The state’s felony disenfranchisement voter-suppression regime is living proof. Felony disenfranchisement has long been a stain on our…
From today’s Politico: A court ordered Alabama’s Legislature to redraw its congressional map to give Black voters more power. The Legislature’s response? Not unless we have to. “We are the…
From today’s AP News: Congress in the coming weeks will consider shoring up voting and election laws — efforts that will reflect the vast gulf between Democrats and Republicans on…
From today’s Alabama Political Reporter: The Alabama Voting Rights Coalition is leading an effort by voting rights advocates to stop a bill that would create more challenges for voters who…
From today’s Boston Globe: Alarmed over young people increasingly proving to be a force for Democrats at the ballot box, Republican lawmakers in a number of states have been trying…
From today’s Portland Mercury: In late 2019, State Senator Michael Dembrow and his colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee met with a group of incarcerated Oregonians presenting research on issues…
From today’s The Guardian: Ohio Republicans quietly enacted a measure earlier this month that imposes sweeping new restrictions on voting access in the state, including more stringent voter ID requirements,…
From today’s NBC News: Texas Republicans are laying the groundwork to move quickly on a number of new changes to the state’s voting laws, including a proposal to create an…
From today’s Washington Post: If all had gone as planned, thousands of high-schoolers in Oakland would have cast their ballots for the first time on Election Day. Many of them…