Every Democrat in Congress voted against the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, which aimed to guarantee equal protection of the law and voting rights for freed slaves. The Lincoln-era Republican Party passed them anyhow.
The Supreme Court decision gutting what’s left of VRA shows how desperately For the People Act & John Lewis Voting Rights Act needed.
Some 25 states have already enacted or are considering laws to ban teaching what they call “critical race theory” (“CRT”) in public schools, a concept that school officials around the country deny they even teach.
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“They want to turn the United States of America that we love and cherish into a democracy.”
"We're saying across this country, it's time for people... to march on these Senate offices," ... "We don't need compromise and capitulation. Pass the bill! Break the filibuster!" declared Rev. William Barber.
The Freedom Ride for Voting Rights will kick off with a Juneteenth celebration in Jackson, Mississippi, and make stops in seven states, concluding with a June 26 rally in Washington, DC.
Would you vote by mail if you had to drive hours to a post office to mail your ballot? That question confronts the United States Supreme Court this session in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee
New Southern voter suppression bills face challenges in state and federal court
You read that correctly. The new law grants the Republican majority the authority to change the rules mid-election, deciding where, how, when, or if my vote will count.
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