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Supreme Court could reshape voting districts, with big impact on Hispanics
By Drew DeSilver Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to take up a Texas case that challenges the way nearly every U.S. voting district – from school boards to Congress – is drawn. The case, in essence, asks the … Continue reading
Help Baltimore by Restoring Voting Rights to Ex-Felons
By Ari Berman Freddie Gray’s neighborhood in Baltimore had the highest incarceration rate of anywhere in the city. More than 450 adults from Sandtown-Winchester are in state prison, and one in four juveniles were arrested from 2005 to 2009. These statistics … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, felony conviction, justice, law, Maryland, mass incarceration, politics, race, voting, voting rights
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Surprise! Black Voters Just Won A Voting Rights Case In The Supreme Court
By Ian Millhiser Alabama’s legislative maps, which minimized black voters’ influence by packing these voters into a small number of districts, will get another day in court thanks to a 5-4 decision — Justice Anthony Kennedy crossed over to vote … Continue reading
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Tagged african american, Alabama, government, politics, race, Redistricting, United States, US Supreme Court, voting, voting rights
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Why Martin Luther King’s Dream Is Still Unfulfilled
By Annie-Rose Strasser Rather than simply celebrating the accomplishments of his life on Martin Luther King, Jr. day, this year ThinkProgress wants to take a look back at the unfinished parts of King’s legacy. While the civil rights leader changed … Continue reading
Winning the Right to Vote for Convicted Felons
This is an interesting legal argument. I have never understood why a persons who have served their debt to society are barred from voting. In addition, why the census counts prisoners where they are jailed and not where they lived before they … Continue reading
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Tagged Farrakhan v. Gregoire, felons, law, NAACP, voting, voting rights, Washington
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Why Not Make Voting Mandatory?
By Charles D. Ellison Convoluted and restrictive voter ID measures got you down? Still rubbing the migraine you got from voter-suppression laws? Banging your head against the wall when voter turnout is too low? Worry no more, fam, we’ve got … Continue reading →