What If We Held a Constitutional Convention and the Right-Wingers Prevailed?
Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nature’s rights, universal basic income, keeping money out of politics: These are some of the principles guiding a coalition of left-wing Californians who want to serve as the “progressive voice” at a convention—which they believe is inevitable—to amend the United States Constitution.…
Texas Democrats Just Got a Huge Boost Thanks to This Court Decision
Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, a judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Dallas County Republican Party that would have kicked most Democratic candidates in the Texas county off the ballot. The lawsuit, filed in January, tried to keep 127 Democratic candidates from appearing on the March 6 primary ballot,…
Kris Kobach Held in Contempt of Court
Donald Trump meets with Kris Kobach after the 2016 election.Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach was held in contempt of court Wednesday afternoon by a federal judge for failing to follow a court order to register voters in Kansas. Kobach, who led President…
New York to Restore Voting Rights to Thousands of Ex-Felons
A demonstrator holds a sign during a rally to demand voting reform in New York on March 18, 2018. Albin Lohr-Jones/Sipa USA/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Andrew Cuomo, New York’s Democratic governor, announced on Wednesday that he plans to restore voting rights to ex-felons on parole through an executive…
New Jersey Becomes 13th State to Adopt Automatic Voter Registration
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy exits the polling booth after voting at the Fairview School on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017 in Middletown, N.J. Aristide Economopoulos/NJ Advance Media/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, New Jersey became the 13th state to adopt automatic voter registration—and the third to do so…
Member of Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission Sued for Voter Intimidation
Election Day in Alexandria, Virginia on November 8, 2016. Dimitrios Manis via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A conservative activist and voter fraud alarmist is facing a federal lawsuit Thursday over dubious allegations of massive voter fraud in Virginia. A civil rights group and four Virginia voters filed a suit against J.…