Search results
How Some States Are Responding to the Worst Attack on Voting Rights in Decades
Capital B via Yahoo News· 5 days agoTo Minnesota state Sen. Bobby Joe Champion, the mission was obvious: He had to do something to...
Abcarian: Why are Republicans making it harder for some people to vote? It's not just partisanship
Los Angeles Times· 1 day agoOf all the modern Supreme Court’s incredibly disappointing rulings, gutting the Voting Rights Act of...
Remembering Steve Pollak, a lawyer whose work inspired generations
KTEP 88.5 El Paso· 3 days agoThe Justice Department hosts a memorial for Stephen Pollak, who played a key role in drafting the Voting Rights Act and other major civil rights moments.
Supreme Court finds no bias against Black voters in a South Carolina congressional district
WMUR New Hampshire· 4 days agoThe Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a Republican-held South Carolina congressional district,...
Justice Thomas's Concurrence in Alexander v. SC NAACP
Reason.com· 3 days agoOn Thursday, the Court decided Alexander v. South Carolina Conference of the NAACP. This redistricting case was unique in that it was brought directly under the Constitution, rather than under ...
Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock...
KRGV Rio Grande Valley· 1 day agoSign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the...
Lessons from Judge David Tatel’s Guide Dog on Blindness and Vision
New York Times· 4 hours agoIn a new memoir, a retired federal appeals court judge who was once a leading candidate for the...
Expert says SCOTUS ruling subjects Black voters to "abuse." Clarence Thomas wants to go even further
Salon.com· 2 days agoThis week, the Supreme Court made it harder for plaintiffs to win racial gerrymandering claims in a...
Voting rights advocates ask federal judge to toss Ohio voting restrictions they say violate ADA
Erie News Now Plus· 3 days ago“These arbitrary restrictions that burden the right to vote of Ohioans with disabilities are undemocratic, cruel, and in violation of several federal laws including the Voting Rights Act and ...
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s up-close view of JFK and LBJ
The Day· 1 day agoNo one was more important to those battles, or to America’s imagination, than the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The Kennedys and King were assassinated ...
