Voter Suppression

The Lawyers’ Committee has filed dozens of cases under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act

Voting Rights: Gutting Section 2 Would Allow Unchecked Racial Discrimination

Photos: Twitter (Washington, D.C.) ­- A federal appeals court should reverse a district judge’s ruling that held Black voters and other impacted community members ...

Supreme Court on voting rights

Supreme Court’s Assault On Voting Rights Hits New Low

Photos: Supreme Court\YouTube Even for experts who closely follow the US supreme court, there was something stunning about an emergency decision, on voting rights, ...

Greater Birmingham Ministries (GBM) filed a lawsuit against Alabama Secretary of State, John H. Merrill,

Alabama Secretary of State Being Sued By Greater Birmingham Ministries

Photo: Twitter Birmingham, Alabama – Today, civil rights organization Greater Birmingham Ministries (GBM) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern ...

Congressional Black Caucus members in calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to aggressively protect voting rights

Congressional Black Caucus Urging DOJ To Aggressively Increase Efforts To Protect Voting Rights

Photo: Twitter WASHINGTON – Tuesday, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (SC-06) and Congressman Mondaire Jones (NY-17) led over 40 ...

President Biden has said that there is no more important domestic priority than voting rights

Activists Push Thousands To Call White House To Pass Federal Voting Rights Legislation

Photos: Twitter\Facebook WASHINGTON, DC – Today, voting rights groups announced a major expanded effort to drive thousands of calls daily to the White House ...

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp shown above signing voter suppression bill S.B. 202.

Legal Challenge To Georgia’s Voter Suppression Law Given Green Light To Proceed

By SPLC

Photo: Twitter ATLANTA – Georgia Governor Brian Kemp shown above signing voter suppression bill S.B. 202. Thursday, a federal court denied the three motions ...

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock

Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock Discusses “Sacred’ Voting Rights

Photo: Twitter WASHINGTON (RNS) — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, both Democrats and one an ordained minister, made the religious ...

organization affiliated with Eric Holder, who was attorney general in the Obama administration, has filed a federal lawsuit

Voting Rights Lawsuit Seeks To Overturn Texas’ New Congressional Districts

Photo: NDRC An organization affiliated with Eric Holder, who was attorney general in the Obama administration, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn ...

redistricting plan breaks up the geographically compact and politically cohesive Black community of East St. Louis.

Lawsuit Filed Against Illinois Redistricting Plan For Undermining Power Of Black Vote

Photos: Zinn Education Project\ACLU CHICAGO — The Illinois legislature’s S.B. 927 redistricting plan, creates unconstitutional racially gerrymandered districts for the Illinois House of Representatives, ...

Republican Party, which more accurately could now be called the Autocracy Party or the Anti-Democracy Party

America’s Two Party System And The Emerging Autocratic GOP Cabal

Photos: Twitter We have a two-party political system, one that evolves with time, people, and circumstance. Democrats were, for many years, a party that ...