Trump’s Pick to Run 2020 Census Has Defended Racial Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression Laws
Copies of the 2010 census form.Ross D. Franklin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In June 2011, the North Carolina legislature hired Thomas Brunell, a professor of political science at the University of Texas at Dallas, to produce a report that would help defend the state’s new redistricting maps. The maps, approved…
Democrats’ Hopes of Taking Back the House Could Hinge on Two Districts—in Texas
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Texas Democrats have big plans for the 2018 midterm elections. Popular Rep. Beto O’Rourke is gunning for Ted Cruz’s Senate seat. Scandal-plagued Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold is retiring at the end of his term, and his district could be redrawn before his…
Hillary Clinton on Trump’s Election: “There Are Lots of Questions About Its Legitimacy”
A year after her defeat by Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton says “there are lots of questions about its legitimacy” due to Russian interference and widespread voter suppression efforts. In an interview with Mother Jones in downtown Manhattan, Clinton said Russian meddling in the election “was one of the major contributors to…
Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission Is Being Sued by One of Its Commissioners
Members of Donald Trump’s election integrity commission meet on September 12 in Manchester, New Hampshire.Holly Ramer/AP Fifteen lawsuits have been filed against President Donald Trump’s controversial “election integrity” commission in federal and state court for allegedly violating a wide range of transparency and privacy laws. The latest one comes from one of the commission’s own members.…
How Donald Trump Is Remaking the Federal Courts in His Own Image
Now Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch speaks as President Donald Trump looks on during an April ceremony in the White House Rose Garden.Olivier Douliery/Abaca/Sipa/AP When Donald Trump took office, he inherited more than 100 federal judicial vacancies. It was a nearly unprecedented number, roughly twice the number that President Barack Obama inherited…
Voting Rights Could Be the Biggest Winner in Tuesday’s Democratic Victories
Ralph Northam and his wife, Pam, vote in Norfolk, Virginia, on Tuesday.Steve Helber/AP Brianna Ross of Richmond, Virginia, lost her right to vote at 19 when she received a felony conviction for stealing diapers for her newborn son. Now 53, she voted for the first time in her life in Virginia’s statewide elections yesterday. “I…