An appeals court has struck down a key path for enforcing the Voting Rights Act | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Updated November 20, 2023 at 12:16 PM ET A federal appeals court has struck down a key path for enforcing the Voting Rights Act. The new ruling in an Arkansas redistricting lawsuit may set up the next U.S. Supreme Court fight that could further limit the reach of the Voting Rights Act’s protections for people […]
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New Mexico’s Republican Party takes the state’s congressional map to trial | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A three-day trial in New Mexico over the state’s congressional map begins Wednesday. Unlike in certain other parts of the country with active fights over redistricting, it’s the state’s Democratic lawmakers who are accused of crafting illegal district boundaries. In New Mexico, the state Republican Party and other plaintiffs argue the Democratic-controlled […]
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Restoring the Voting Rights Act is still on this Alabama Democrat’s agenda | #elections | #alabama
In the fight to restore what’s been called the most effective civil rights legislation in U.S. history, Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama is unrelenting. Despite a divided Congress heading into a presidential election year, Sewell is leading a group of House Democrats to reintroduce a bill Tuesday that would shore up and expand the […]
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How the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud | #elections | #alabama
Updated June 6, 2023 at 2:56 PM ET On a night in January 2022, Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin stepped on stage in a former airbase in Houma, La. With American flags draped from the stage, the topic of the night was democracy. The state’s chief voting official joked that he was competing with […]
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How the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud | #elections | #alabama
On a night in January 2022, Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin stepped on stage in a former airbase in Houma, La. With American flags draped from the stage, the topic of the night was democracy. The state’s chief voting official joked that he was competing with a former LSU Tiger great playing in the […]
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How the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
On a night in January 2022, Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin stepped on stage in a former airbase in Houma, La. With American flags draped from the stage, the topic of the night was democracy. The state’s chief voting official joked that he was competing with a former LSU Tiger great playing in the […]
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Who counts as Black in voting maps? Some GOP state officials want that narrowed | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Who counts as Black? The thorny question has quietly found its way before the U.S. Supreme Court again, ensnared in a major legal battle over the Voting Rights Act that could further gut the landmark law and make it harder to protect the political power of voters of color. The battle is playing out over […]
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Election denier Finchem wins GOP nomination to oversee voting in Arizona | #elections | #alabama
Updated August 3, 2022 at 7:42 AM ET Mark Finchem, a state representative and election conspiracy theorist who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has won the GOP nomination to oversee voting as Arizona’s secretary of state, according to a race call by The Associated Press. Finchem will appear on the November general election […]
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