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John Roberts’ ‘eh’ view of extreme partisanship is important
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAs chief justice in 2013, he oversaw a key decision that whittled away at the power of the Voting...
Federal lawsuit on redistricting Alabama Senate could renew gambling considerations
Birmingham News· 3 days agoSupreme Court ruling found the state legislature’s map an illegal racial gerrymander under the...
A look back at the passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Cronin and Loevy
Colorado Springs Gazette· 5 days agoMonday is the 60th anniversary of the successful cloture vote in the U.S. Senate that enabled final enactment, on July 2, 1964, of the ...
Former U.S. attorney general reflects on Alabama redistricting ruling a year later
ABC 3340 Birmingham· 5 days agoIt has been one year since the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court's decision in Allen v....
White people aren't being discriminated against. Groups trying to keep Black people down.
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 days agoSection 1981 of the 1866 Civil Rights Act granted Black people the same rights as white people when...
Opinion: Senate contraception bill vote is a preview of next fight over reproductive rights |...
Chattanooga Times Free Press· 3 days agoThe bill needed 60 votes to proceed but only received 51, all but two of those coming from Democrats and independents who caucus with Democrats..., D-New York, a staunch supporter ...
OPINION | KEESA SMITH: For our children | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 4 days agoin which he openly thought through the next step for the country after experiencing wins such as the...
Supreme Court ruling 1 year ago changed Alabama’s congressional map
Birmingham News· 5 days agoDemocrat Shomari Figures and Republican Caroleene Dobson will face off in the November general...
Willie Wilson: Lessons from my father on love
Chicago Tribune· 12 hours agoAs the son of a sharecropper growing up in Gilbert, Louisiana, I learned very important life lessons from my mother and father that shaped me into the...
Native Americans granted citizenship 100 years ago, but voting rights came decades later
Arizona Daily Star· 3 days agoArizona, in particular, used literacy tests and other tools to quash voting rights of Americans who...