The Country’s Most Conservative Court Just Reinstated a Jim Crow-Era Voter Suppression Law
Members of voting rights groups hold signs calling for protection of voting rights at a news conference in Jackson, Miss., Dec. 7, 2023. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The most conservative appellate court in the country on Thursday reinstated a…
Republicans Preview the Voter Suppression Policies They’ll Enact if Trump Wins
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., holds a news conference with Donald Trump on April 12, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. Wilfredo Lee/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In April, when he was at risk of being toppled by hardline…
DOJ: State of Alaska Discriminates Against Voters With Disabilities
Residents in Anchorage, Alaska wait to vote.Mark Thiessen/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Monday, the US Department of Justice sent a letter to Alaska’s director of elections, outlining the state’s litany of violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act that impacted disabled…
Disenfranchised For Disabilities: Arizona’s Guardianship Law Is a Voting Rights Nightmare
A voter drops off her ballot at a drop box in Arizona.Matt York/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When Becky King’s daughter Beth Papp turned 18, she couldn’t register to vote in her home state of Arizona. Five years later, she still can’t.…
Not All Votes Are Created Equal
Nicolás Ortega Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. As any schoolkid might tell you, US elections are based on a bedrock principle: one person, one vote. Simple as that. Each vote carries the same weight. Yet for much of the country’s history, that hasn’t…
The Supreme Court Just Made It Easier for Republicans to Get Away With Racial Gerrymandering
Mother Jones; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA; Tim Mossholder/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of a South Carolina congressional map that a lower court had previously found diluted the power of Black voters. In a 6-3 decision…