Alabama
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
- Section
- state
- state of alabama
- supreme court
- Trump years
- unfinished business
- vote dilution
- voting rights act
- white candidate
- young John Roberts
- young lawyer
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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Alabama
Big election roundup: Here’s how every race on the Lee County ballot turned out | Govt. and Politics | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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Google-News-Wire
- June 15, 2022
- Alabama
- andrew harris
- ballot
- candidate
- committee
- county
- debra jones
- district
- employee
- general election
- greg cook
- id
- institutes
- jacob walker
- Katie Britt
- Law
- lee county
- lee county circuit court
- lee county commission
- ministries
- parliament
- politics
- polling place
- primary
- primary election
- representative
- runoff
- russell
- state of alabama
- state senator
- terrence kareem johnson
- vote
- voter
- warren
DIMON KENDRICK-HOLMES Here’s a look at the unofficial results of who won what around Lee County, the region and the state. And just for kicks, we give you the Lee County results for state and multi-county races so you can see how your neighbors voted in the bigger races. LOCAL RACES Lee County Commission District […]
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