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219 News Now: Indiana Defends Lake County Judicial Selection Process in Voting Rights Act Case
The Times of Northwest Indiana· 6 days agoHere’s your 219 News Now for May 20, 2024. Indiana Defends Lake County Judicial Selection Process in...
How Some States Are Responding to the Worst Attack on Voting Rights in Decades
Capital B via Yahoo News· 4 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· 14 hours agoOf all the modern Supreme Court’s incredibly disappointing rulings, gutting the Voting Rights Act of...
Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock...
KRGV Rio Grande Valley· 18 hours agoSign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the...
Remembering Steve Pollak, a lawyer whose work inspired generations
KTEP 88.5 El Paso· 2 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
theGrio via AOL· 8 hours agoSupreme Court holds that moving voters into a new district based on their politics, not race, is...
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 ...
Voting rights advocates ask federal judge to toss Ohio voting restrictions they say violate ADA
Erie News Now Plus· 2 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 ...
Texas GOP Pushes Bible Classes, Electoral Overhaul to Sideline Dems
Hoodline· 7 hours agoThe Texas Republican Party made headlines with its proposed 2024 platform that endorses requiring...
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s up-close view of JFK and LBJ
The Day· 20 hours 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 ...