Alabama
Alabama Is Defying the Supreme Court on Voting Rights | #elections | #alabama
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Google-News-Wire
- July 28, 2023
- additional Black-majority
- Alabama
- backstop legislature
- black voters
- congressional districts
- conservative complaints
- conservative justices
- conservative movement
- conservative-dominated Court’s directive
- Court
- Court’s liberal critics
- coziness of the Republican-appointed justices
- free market
- free speech
- fundamental freedoms
- john roberts
- John Roberts’s long gameAll
- law of the land
- legal martyr
- liberal criticism of the Court
- liberal majority
- liberals
- majority-minority populations
- Matt Ford
- midst of a conservative campaign
- open challenge
- partisan motive
- political campaign
- political control
- political donors
- political strength of a critique of the Court
- quarter of Alabama
- Racial discrimination
- right wing
- right’s view
- Roberts Court’s defenders
- rule of law
- single district
- southern states
- state’s Republican majority
- substantive public criticism
- supreme court
- Supreme Court order
- supreme court ruling
- Supreme Court rulings
- verbal criticism of powerful institutions
- voting rights act
- Wall Street Journal
- Wall Street Journal’s editorial page
- Yellowhammer State’s Republican-controlled legislature
Supreme Court rulings are meant to be the law of the land, but Alabama is taking its recent opinion on the Voting Rights Act as a mere recommendation. In an echo of mid-century southern defiance of school desegregation, the Yellowhammer State’s Republican-controlled legislature defied the conservative-dominated Court’s directive to redraw its congressional map with an […]
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Alaska
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
- partisan primaries
- policy advocate
- political scientist
- political-reform movement
- politics
- possible proposals
- president
- Proportional Representation
- radical change
- Ranked Choice Voting
- recent years
- republican
- Republican leaders
- senator
- senior fellow
- southern states
- support of some civil-rights activists
- U.S. Politics
- unachievable.Supporters of proportional representation
- vigorous competition of ideas
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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