Virginia’s Democratic landslide in the State Senate and the House of Delegates has pushed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) “over the historic finish line”, says Kate Kelly, a human rights attorney at the advocacy group, Equality Now. The suffragist Alice Paul wrote the ERA in 1923—three years after women won the right to vote. But the ERA … [Read more...]
U.S. Election Systems Need Protecting
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report in late July 2019 that detailed Russia’s attempts to interfere in the 2016 election by targeting election systems in all 50 states. While the report does not contend that any actual votes were changed, the fact that Russia tried and succeeded in accessing United States election systems is further … [Read more...]
Michigan Voted To Create an Independent Redistricting Commission. Republicans Are Suing To Destroy It.
Last year, e-mails emerged in Michigan dating back to the state's 2011 redistricting effort. With the state government totally controlled by Republicans in the aftermath of the 2010 Tea Party wave, Republicans were able to gerrymander the closely divided state to give their party a decisive advantage in the state legislature and the congressional … [Read more...]
The States Defying Their Demographic Destinies
(Photo Credit: Susan Ruggles, CC 2.0) As American Legal News discussed in a previous story, American politics has become sharply divided along demographic lines. Speaking very broadly, the Republican Party dominates with white voters without college degrees, while Democrats rely heavily on voters of color and voters who have graduated from … [Read more...]
Trump Supporters Push Measures To Ban Non-Citizen Voting in 2020 Battlegrounds
In 2004, Republicans in Ohio and 10 other states successfully pushed constitutional amendments banning gay marriage. This wasn't a coincidence – it was a concerted effort on the part of groups affiliated with the George W. Bush re-election campaign to drive conservative turnout in these states and aid the President's re-election effort. Some … [Read more...]
Supreme Court Review: Roberts Opens “Pandora’s Box” in Census Ruling
In the June 27th decision in Department of Commerce v. New York, Chief Justice John Roberts partially agreed with the liberal majority in ruling that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ motive for including the citizenship question on the 2020 census was a subterfuge. Ross, who oversees the census, said that the citizenship question was intended to … [Read more...]
17 Million People Removed from Voter Polls
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission recently released its independent, bipartisan report on voter registration records. According to its report, 17 million people were removed from state voter rolls between 2016 and 2018. Between 2014 and 2016, nearly 16 million voters were removed, and between 2006 and 2008, 12 million names were removed. The … [Read more...]
Florida Republicans Undermine Felon Re-Enfranchisement Amendment
Governor Ron DeSantis speaking in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore, CC 2.0) In last year's midterms, voters in Florida overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the state constitution that would restore the voting rights of convicted felons who had served their time, including parole and probation. The vote in the sharply … [Read more...]
Supreme Court Rejects Limits to Partisan Gerrymandering
According to Reuters, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected efforts to the practice of manipulating electoral district boundaries to entrench one party in power by turning away challenges to political maps in Maryland and North Carolina. The justices ruled in a decision with nationwide implications that judges do not have the ability to … [Read more...]
Voting Rights Groups File Suit to Block Tennessee Law Punishing Registration Drives
Republican legislators across the country are seemingly engaged in a fierce competition to see who can pass the most restrictive voter suppression measures. Republicans have embraced the idea that the easiest way for them to hold on to power is to make it as difficult as possible for citizens – especially people of color and poorer Americans – to … [Read more...]
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