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SCOTUS Shocks With ‘Huge’ Ruling Protecting Black Voters in Alabama
The Supreme Court preserved federal voting rights protections in Alabama that many thought would be further gutted by this conservative court.
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Opinion: Right-Wing Week In Review Reveals GOP Politics Of Racism Toward African Americans
The past week has telescoped America’s history of racism and genocide in the intensest of ways, highlighting too that it’s the highest governing offices in the land that are promulgating the most virulent racism and leading the genocidal charge.
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Mitch McConnell Praises John Lewis While Blocking The Voting Rights Act
Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released a glowing statement praising the late John Lewis as he blocks the restoration of the Voting Rights Act.
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Let’s Connect the Dots of Democracy’s Demise Before It’s Too Late
Remember in 2016 when an armed Oregon militia group, led by Ammon and Ryan Bundy, occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Princeton, Oregon? They viewed the federally managed land as an encroachment on their land use rights as ranchers and as an example of the federal government’s overreach in asserting its authority against the…
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Cummings Wants Brian Kemp To Testify About Voter Suppression
The incoming chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings , has his sights set on Brian Kemp, the Republican governor-elect of Georgia. Before using widespread voter suppression tactics to cheat in his race against Democrat Stacey Abrams, Kemp was the Georgia Secretary of State. This position put him in…
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Opinion: That Moment When a Federal District Court Rules Texas Election Law Is Racist
“Republican lawmakers rushed the voter ID law without the usual committee analysis and debate… to provide an Anglo partisan advantage.”
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One Republican Sex Scandal Unmasks the Phony Justifications for Undermining Voting Rights
The Supreme Court struck down key parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, saying it wasn’t necessary anymore in 2013. A Republican Governor’s current sex scandal just proved the Supreme Court wrong.
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Chris Christie Busted And Reported To The Department Of Justice For Voting Rights Violations
A bad day for Chris Christie has gotten even worse as the New Jersey Governor has been reported to the Department of Justice for violations of the Voting Rights Act.
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Hillary Clinton’s Push For Universal Automatic Voter Registration Could Kill The GOP
Hillary Clinton isn’t settling for restoring the Voting Rights Act. The Democratic nominee has a plan to automatically and universally register voters that would kill the Republican Party.
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Racist Republicans Crusade To Keep Dr. Martin Luther King’s Dream Unfulfilled
Despite the Civil Rights Movement, racism is as rampant in America as it was when Dr. King marched and revealed his dream.
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President Obama Writes A Powerful Letter Defending Voting Rights Act
In a letter to the editor, President Obama made a powerful case for restoring the protections contained in the Voting Rights Act.
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Bernie Sanders Brands Republicans Political Cowards As He Unveils Two New Pro-Voter Bills
At a rally to mark the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Sen. Bernie Sanders called out the “political cowards” in the Republican Party who are trying to take away the right to vote from millions of Americans. Sanders also unveiled two new pro-voting pieces of legislation.
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Mitch McConnell’s Message To Minorities On Selma Anniversary: Your Vote Won’t Count
When asked about the Voting Rights Act on Face The Nation, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s message to minority voters was that he has no interest in making sure that their votes will count.
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Racist Republican Leadership Absent From 50th Anniversary of Selma
One group that was glaringly absent from Selma on Saturday was any substantial representation of racist Republicans; most notably Republican leaders in Congress.
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50 Years Later, John Lewis Is In Congress, Our President Is Black, But Selma Fight Isn’t Over
It is not enough simply to remember Selma. The courageous men and women on the Edmund Pettus Bridge could not be deterred by brutal force. They marched forward with undaunted courage, staring death in the face. Members of Congress who lack the minimal courage required to pass legislation protecting the right to vote, have no business paying tribute to the marchers in Selma. By their inaction, their allegiance lies with the Alabama State Troopers who turned the marchers around.
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Two Years After SCOTUS Gutting, GOP Rep Insists Congress Is Ready To Amend Voting Rights Act
It should be no surprise by this time, but whenever present-day Republicans point a finger and cry “foul,” you can be reasonably sure the crime is an inside job.
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ACLU Files Lawsuit Claiming Racial Discrimination In Ferguson School District Voting
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday is a St. Louis federal court in which it claims the Florissant-Ferguson School District is practicing racially discriminatory system in its election process.
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Democratic Senator Bob Casey Wants To Restore The Voting Rights Act
On Friday, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) held a news conference where he called on his colleagues to restore the gutted portions of the Voting Rights Act.
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Fourth Circuit Restores Early Voting and Out of Precinct Voting in North Carolina
In a 2-1 decision, the Federal Appeals Court for the Fourth Circuit granted a temporary injunction to restore same day registration and out of precinct voting in North Carolina.
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The Supreme Court Enjoins Republican War on Voting in Earnest
The Supreme Court’s anti-democracy wing; Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy issued an announcement that their decision was not on the merits of the case because they had not yet heard any oral arguments defending voting restrictions. They just believed so strongly that since Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted invested such an incredible amount of time and energy to disenfranchise minority and working-class voters, and labeled his “appeal” an emergency.
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Republican Attorney-General Greg Abbott Humiliated in Federal Court Ruling
In a ruling on attorney’s fees related to a redistricting case, a Federal Court Judge dealt Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott two doses of humiliation.
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A Lone, Sane Republican Vows to Address the Voting Rights Act by the End of the Year
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) is on the record saying he wants to fix the pre-clearance formula by the end of this year.
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Note to Republicans: Americans Know Not to Trade Cookies For Their Civil Rights
The American people are not stupid, and can’t be tricked by Republicans carrying plates of cookies into giving up their civil rights.
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Eric Holder Puts Texas On Notice: Everyone’s Voting Rights Will Be Respected
Republicans see threat to white privilege in Eric Holder’s announced plans to make Texas obtain federal approval for changes to voting laws
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Only 2 Republicans Attended Today’s Voting Rights Act Hearing and Both Left Early
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee held their first hearing on the post-Supreme Court gutted Voting Rights Act. Only two Republicans attended the hearing, and both of them left early.
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Supreme Court Activists Conspired With Republicans and ALEC To Kill Democracy
What the conservative court accomplished besides handing ALEC the right to restrict minority voters in the South is effectively abolishing the 15th Amendment.
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Ignoring Facts SCOTUS Strikes Down Key Provisions in the VRA
This ruling gives us a lesson in political reality. Republican governors and Republican controlled state legislatures will suppress the vote. Voting Republican means endorsing vote suppression.
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Bernie Sanders Blasts The Supreme Court For Taking Us Back to Jim Crow Era Voting
Sen. Bernie Sanders bluntly blasted the Supreme Court for taking the country back to Jim Crow era voting rights.
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Get Angry: The Arrogant Activist Supreme Court Majority Demolished Your Right To Vote
The arrogant activist conservative Supreme Court majority demolished your right to vote today, and it now it is time to get angry.
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Jon Stewart Defends the Voting Rights Act and Slams Antonin Scalia
Jon Stewart used the behavior of Republicans in 2012 to explain why the Voting Rights Act should be expanded, and slammed Justice Scalia for his judicial activism.
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Racism Reaches the Levels of Government via Scalia’s Voting Rights Comments
One never imagined Scalia would openly declare his racism and disdain for the most basic of rights in an open and free democracy, but then again it is Antonin Scalia.
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The Future of the Voting Rights Act Depends on One Supreme Court Justice
In reality the future of the Voting Rights Act depends on whether Justice Kennedy places a higher priority on states’ rights, or the rights of millions of Americans to vote.
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Defeat of Republican Efforts to Steal Elections Hinges on SCOTUS Voting Right Act Case
The SCOTUS will hear arguments Shelby County Alabama v. Holder on Wednesday. The facts of 2012 alone should make this an easy ruling in favor of upholding the VRA including Article 5.
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Several Florida Republicans Admit Voter Fraud was Subterfuge for GOP Victory
Republicans say the Florida law that cut early voting was an intentional tactic to hand Florida to the GOP by inhibiting Democratic turnout.
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Texas Sues The Federal Government For The Power To Suppress The Vote
The state of Texas is suing the federal government because they believe they have the right to disenfranchise millions of voters.