We Now Know Why Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach Lobbied for a Citizenship Question on the Census
Then-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon with President Donald Trump last year.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In December 2017, the Justice Department asked the Commerce Department, which oversees the Census Bureau, to add a controversial question about US citizenship to the 2020 census for the first time since…
North Carolina Republicans Want a Constitutional Amendment to Require ID to Vote
Voter ID rules posted at a polling place in Greensboro, N.C. News & Record via AP/Andrew Krech Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. North Carolina Republicans are resurrecting their efforts to require voters to present specific forms of identification in order to cast a ballot, after an earlier voter ID law was…
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…