The Decision That Could End Voting Rights | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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- November 23, 2023
- aftermath of Reconstruction
- Alabama
- American democracy
- arkansas
- basis of race
- black people
- black voters
- Black voting strength.Kimberly Wehle
- chief justice
- Chief Justice John Roberts
- clarence thomas
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- political power of Black voters
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- Republican Party
- state chapter of the NAACP
- state-district lines
- supreme court
- three-judge panel
- vast majority of claims
- voting rights act
- voting-rights case
- voting-rights foeThe Constitution
- voting-rights protections time
- white voters
A federal court’s opinion yesterday could render the Voting Rights Act meaningless, if the Supreme Court upholds it. Robert Abbott Sengstacke / Getty November 21, 2023, 9:32 AM ET The right to vote free of racial discrimination was won by blood and sacrifice, those of both the soldiers who fought to preserve the Union and […]
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A Radical Idea for Fixing Congress: Proportional Representation | #alaska | #politics
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Google-News-Wire
- July 6, 2023
- America’s current system
- American democracy
- best way
- biggest victory yetThe changes
- Black representation
- black voters
- civil-rights era
- co-founder of Fix Our House
- congressional elections
- Congressman
- congressmen
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- council
- current winner-take
- Democratic Representative Don Beyer of Virginia
- democrats
- economy
- elections
- federal elections
- federal level
- frequently cited example of a multiparty system
- friends today
- frustrated election experts
- governor
- growing number of political-reform advocates
- house of representatives
- Katherine Gehl
- larger districts
- least hope
- Lee Drutman
- left-leaning New America Foundation
- mayor
- member of Congress
- moderate Democrat Mary Peltola
- Moderate Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski
- more representative government
- Multimember House districts
- multiparty democracy.Lee Drutman
- natural clustering of like-minded people
- new season of reform
- parties’ most ideological voters
- partisan gerrymandering
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- president
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- Ranked Choice Voting
- recent years
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- southern states
- support of some civil-rights activists
- U.S. Politics
- unachievable.Supporters of proportional representation
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For most Americans, voting for a member of Congress is one of their simplest civic duties. Every two years, they pick the candidate they like best—usually the same one they chose last time—and whoever gets the most votes will represent them and a few hundred thousand of their neighbors in the House of Representatives. In […]
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U.S. democracy is the height of hypocrisy-Xinhua | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Photo taken on Dec. 28, 2018 shows the reflection of the Capitol Hill on an ambulance’s door in Washington D.C., the United States. (Xinhua/Liu Jie) The ugly truth of American democracy: Elections are political shows that fool the American people. The so-called democracy is, in fact, a game of power and money. BEIJING, Nov. 1 […]
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The Destruction of the Voting Rights Act | #elections | #alabama
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Google-News-Wire
- September 20, 2022
- abridgment of the right of any citizen
- Alabama’s challenge
- Alabama’s request
- American democracy
- Black majority
- chief justice
- Chief Justice John Roberts
- Chief Justice Warren Burger
- congressional district
- conservative supermajority
- Court’s conservative majority
- crowning achievement of the civil-rights era
- district court
- district court’s order
- environmental regulation
- federal district court
- Fifteenth Amendment
- final unraveling
- first line of his petition
- Fourteenth Amendment
- hands of a Supreme Court
- john roberts
- Justice Anthony Kennedy
- Justice Clarence Thomas
- Justice Potter Stewart
- justices’ audacious move
- language minority group
- large Black populations
- law firm
- lower court
- lower federal courts
- measure of racial equality
- new majority-Black
- ordinary case of statutory interpretation
- percent Black
- Racial discrimination
- Reagan Justice Department.The
- Roberts’s earliest Supreme Court opinions
- second day of the new term
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- Trump years
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- vote dilution
- voting rights act
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The Supreme Court delivered appalling decisions in June—on abortion, guns, and environmental regulation—but the conservative supermajority is poised to strike an even greater blow against American democracy. The justices now have the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in their sights. On October 4, the second day of the new term, they will hear Alabama’s challenge […]
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