This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming argument in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee. Our case preview is here. Ilya Shapiro is director of the Robert A.Source: Supreme Court needs to set clear standards for vote-denial claims...
The US Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday in key voting rights cases out of Arizona that will test the limits of a provision of the Voting Rights Act that prohibits discrimination against minorities in voting. In the two lawsuits, Brnovich vs.Source: The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday in a case that could further gut the Voting Rights Act...
On March 1, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear two cases filed by Republican candidates for presidential elector over the November 2020 election returns. Bowyer v Ducey, 20-858, is from Arizona; Feehan v Wisconsin Elections Commission, 20-859, is from Wisconsin.Source: U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Two Cases on 2020 Election Returns Filed by Republican Candidates for Presidential Elector...
Several members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed to search for a middle ground Tuesday in the most significant Voting Rights Act case the justices have taken up since the court struck down a critical part of that landmark law eight years ago.Source: Justices seek middle ground in voting-rights fight...
‘We the people. Those words changed everything. Power rested in the people, not the government. Freedom to think, to speak, to act, to criticize your government, all protected.” Great rhetoric, worthy of praise.Source: The Democrats’ New Schemes to Control Political Speech...
ORLANDO, Florida — Following a legal blow from the Supreme Court over a lawsuit that contended Pennsylvania’s no-excuse, mail-in balloting system was a violation of the state Constitution, Republican Rep.Source: After Supreme Court disappointment, Mike Kelly doubts state efforts to reform election laws will bear fruit...
The ex-president told political advisers Thursday that former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will run a new super PAC.Source: Trump shares plans for new super PAC in Mar-a-Lago meeting...
But do such restrictions work as intended? To find out, we undertook the largest examination to date of survey data on attitudes toward money in politics, analyzing nearly 60,000 individual responses to over 50 surveys conducted between 1987 and 2017.Source: Reformers say HR 1 will fortify our democracy. Science shows it won’t...
Republican legislators around the country are moving aggressively to strip governors and other officials of their power to change election rules -- after states made it easier to vote last year during the coronavirus pandemic and turnout surged to record levels.Source: Republican legislators around the country seek to strip governors and officials of emergency election powers...
On the cold, windy night of March 20, 1854, 36-year-old lawyer Alvan Bovay rounded up dozens of his neighbors in Ripon, Wisconsin, and gathered them in a schoolhouse for a meeting that would change the course of American history. It was the group’s second gathering of the month.Source: Is It Time for the Republican Party to Split Apart?...
