The Supreme Court Just Halted a Ruling that Deemed North Carolina’s Congressional Map Unconstitutional
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday night, the Supreme Court halted a lower court ruling that ordered North Carolina officials to revise its map of the state’s congressional districts. The decision comes 10 days after a three-judge panel found that Republican lawmakers in the state had erred in drawing the…
The Battle Over Racial Gerrymandering Is Once Again Headed to the Supreme Court
Shirley Connuck, right, of Falls Church, Va., holds up a sign representing a district in Texas, as the Supreme Court hears a case on possible partisan gerrymandering by state legislatures on October 3, 2017. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The US Supreme Court on…
Republicans Are Trying to Kill a Key Voting Rights Law
Student Anne Harris register to vote Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, at Lake Michigan College, in Benton Harbor, Mich. Herald-Palladium via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thirty years ago, the United States had a big problem. Barely half of eligible voters had cast a ballot in the 1988 presidential election—the…
The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Unleash a New Wave of Voter Purges
A line of early voters on November 7, 2016, in Columbus, OhioJohn Minchillo/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When it comes to purging names from the voter rolls, the state of Ohio is second-to-none. Since becoming secretary of state in 2011, Republican Jon Husted has excised more than 2 million voters…
Donald Trump Shut Down His Election Fraud Commission, But He Hasn’t Given up on Voter Suppression
Donald Trump speaks at the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in Washington DC, on July 19, 2017. Rex Features/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump abruptly shut down his commission on election integrity on Wednesday evening. That’s the good news for voting rights…
Trump Just Dissolved His Own Voter Fraud Commission
Chris Kleponis/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump dissolved his controversial “election integrity” commission to the cheers of voting rights advocates who saw the commission as a threat to ballot access. It was created after Trump tweeted, with no evidence, that millions of illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election. …