Pennsylvania Republicans Are Trying to Replace One Gerrymander with Another
A Pennsylvania congressional map proposed by top Republican lawmakers in the state legislature on February 9, 2018.State Sen. Joseph Scarnati/senatorscarnati.com Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Top Republicans in the Pennsylvania legislature aren’t giving an inch in the ongoing battle over the state’s congressional map. On Friday, they submitted a new map for…
Supreme Court Clears Way for Pennsylvania to Draw New Congressional Map
Protesters for fair elections gathered outside the US Supreme Court as the court heard arguments about partisan gerrymandering on October 3.Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to wade into a battle over Pennsylvania’s Republican-friendly congressional map, clearing the way…
Judge Strikes Down Felon Disenfranchisement System in Florida
People stand in line to vote in the presidential election in 2012 in Miami. Lynne Sladky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge in Florida has struck down Florida’s system for determining which ex-felons have the right to vote, handing an unexpected victory to advocates of broader voting rights.…
Kris Kobach’s Office Put Thousands of State Employees’ Partial Social Security Numbers Online
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach launches his campaign for the Republican nomination for governor in June 2017. John Hanna/AP File Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The office of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, which controls sensitive information on millions of American voters through the Interstate Crosscheck Program, posted online…
Trump’s Election Commission Is Dead. But the Controversy Around It Keeps Growing.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Vice Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, at the group’s July meeting in Washington DC. Rex Features via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump dissolved his election integrity commission earlier this month, claiming that lawsuits had dragged down…
Does Donald Trump Want to Be Dictator of the United States?
The Republican National Convention in July 2016Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It began the day he was sworn in, with his vow to end “American carnage”—a direct echo of his autocratic pronouncement when accepting the Republican nomination that “I alone can fix it.” Donald Trump has chipped away at…