Why Kavanaugh and Roberts are up against the lower courts on voting rights. | #elections | #alabama
Last June, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh saved the Voting Rights Act in a surprise 5–4 decision. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Allen v. Milligan invalidated Alabama’s egregious racial gerrymander, affirming nonwhite Americans’ equal voting power, and overall, upheld the federal ban on racial discrimination in the electoral process. It should have […]
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New Mexico Supreme Court upholds congressional map | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court upheld a Democratic-drawn congressional map that divvied up a conservative, oil-producing region and reshaped a swing district along the U.S. border with Mexico, in an order published Monday.All five justices signed a shortly worded order to affirm a lower court decision that the redistricting plan […]
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The Decision That Could End Voting Rights | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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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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Nikole Hannah Jones’ ‘Democracy Summit’ rings the alarm about rising threats | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
“A culture of balance and covering both sides has impeded our ability to accurately convey to the public what’s actually happening,” says the founder of Howard University’s Center for Journalism & Democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Nikole Hannah Jones convened political journalists, elected officials, students and educators at Howard University earlier this week to […]
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US Supreme Court Rejects Alabama Again on Republican-Drawn Voting Map | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
The US Supreme Court left in force a ruling that requires Alabama to have a second congressional district with a near-majority of Black voters, rejecting the state’s latest bid to reinstate a Republican-drawn map. The high court order, which came without comment or public dissent, reinforces the justices’ June 8 ruling against the state in […]
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Arkansas Supreme Court dismisses LEARNS Act lawsuit
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) – The Arkansas State Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit Thursday that had been ongoing since the Arkansas LEARNS Act was first voted on. According to our content partners, KARK-TV in Little Rock, the decision “ended the potentially far-reaching debate on how the state legislature passed laws with an emergency clause.” Thursday’s […]
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Mayor Quinton Lucas challenging police funding increase
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – In November 2022, Missouri voters passed an amendment that would require Kansas City to spend a larger portion of revenue on police funding. The amendment requires the city to spend 25 percent of general revenue on police, up from the current 20 percent requirement. Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas has […]
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Supreme Court will let Alabama’s congressional map be redrawn | #elections | #alabama
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the drawing of a new Alabama congressional map with greater representation for Black voters to proceed. The new districts also could help Democrats trying to flip control of the House of Representatives.The justices, without any noted dissent, rejected the state’s plea to retain Republican-drawn lines that were turned down […]
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Alabama Republicans Think the Supreme Court Is Partisan | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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To hear the Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices tell it, they are not partisan hacks. And it is unfair for anyone to suggest otherwise. “This Court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett insisted in a 2021 speech at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center, named after Senator Mitch McConnell. […]
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Alabama Asks Supreme Court to Reinstate GOP-Drawn Congressional Voting Map | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Alabama asked the US Supreme Court to reinstate a Republican-drawn congressional map, saying the state doesn’t have to create a second near-majority Black district even after losing a high court ruling earlier this year. The request aims to reopen a Supreme Court fight over the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 law that protects the rights […]
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