How the Supreme Court Should Respond to Alabama’s Defiance
From today’s New York Times: A panel of three federal judges last week issued a scathing opinion directing the state of Alabama to comply with the Voting Rights Act. It was the…
California County Under Investigation For Violating Voting Rights Laws
From today’s Sacramento Bee: The California Department of Justice announced an investigation Tuesday into redistricting in Butte County, and whether its board of supervisors violated state voting rights law when…
Alabama’s Redistricting Brawl Rehashes Bitter Fight Over Voting Rights
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…
Deep Partisanship On Display As Congress Releases Competing Voting Bills
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…
GOP Face Setbacks in Restricting Voting Laws on College Campuses
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…
Oregon Set to Expand Voting Rights to People in Prison
From today’s NBC News: Oregon state Democrats have advanced a bill that would allow people who are incarcerated in the state to vote. If enacted, the bill would make the state only…
Election Worker Intimidation and Voting Rights Laws Passed in New Mexico
From today’s Albuquerque Journal: Legislation making it a crime to intimidate election workers and expanding automatic voter registration is on its way to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham after winning House…
Oregon Lawmakers Aim to Expand Voting Rights to Incarcerated Oregonians
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…
Minnesota Legislature Moves To Restore Voting Rights for Felons
From today’s Minneapolis Star-Tribune: The Rev. Brian Herron of Zion Baptist Church in Minneapolis visited the state Capitol last week to urge restoration of voting rights to former felons immediately…
I’m the Governor of North Carolina. This Fringe Claim Before the Supreme Court Would Upend Democracy.
From today’s New York Times: Over the past six months, the United States Supreme Court has handed down one misguided ruling after another, stripping Americans of the constitutional right to…