Bush flip-flops on Voting Rights Act reauthorization
No, it's not what you think. President Bush is scheduled today to sign the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. However, the Washington Times actually manages to cast the event in a...
View ArticleWelcome to the United States of White America
What?! United States of White America? Never heard of such a thing? Outraged that I had the audacity make that the title of this blog entry?Maybe, like me (prior to my work as an Election Protection...
View ArticleDOJ Wins Mississippi White Voter Suppression Case
In May 2006, Perrspectives detailed the one of the few efforts by the Bush Department of Justice to fight election bias. In a tragi-comic inversion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the DOJ argued...
View ArticleDoesn't look like we are post racial yet
"100 years ago, no one would have predicted we, as a nation, would have elected an African-American President," writes NAACP president Ben Jealous.Just more than 100 days into the first...
View ArticleVoting Rights Act Withstands a Challenge in the Deep South
Cross Posted at Legal SchnauzerThe days of men wearing hoods and burning crosses seem to have mostly passed here in the Deep South. But they have been replaced by the days of men filing dubious...
View Article'Sit-ins for Stacey' Campfield, anti-gay TN state senator who was denied...
Note: this is going up a lot later than I had hoped, since my article just now got postedOver at The Huffington Post, I've written a follow-up [and you should definitely read it] to the story I called...
View ArticleWhy I Vote For Democrats: "This most basic right"
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Democrat, signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.Handing the Pen to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.The new law of the land:SEC. 2. No voting qualification or...
View ArticleTodd Akin's rape statement was not a gaffe
The firestorm that began Sunday with Todd Akin’s claim in an interview with Charles Jaco of Fox 2 in St. Louis that “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing...
View ArticleFederal court panel 'pre-clears' South Carolina voter-ID law, but not for...
A three-judge panel in Washington unanimously has given the green-light to a voter-ID law in South Carolina. But it won't take effect until 2013. Unlike other laws requiring voters to present a photo...
View ArticleSCOTUS will consider the Voting Rights Act case
In the midst of the Petraeus maelstrom, I just heard another important breaking story on MSNBC. Forgive me if it's already been diaried.See the details from SCOTUSblog below the fluffy orange...
View ArticleThis week in the War on Voting: Suppression brings out more voters, Rights...
The good news firstSince The Nation's Ari Berman has been covering voter suppression so well, let him deliver that news:By pushing voter suppression laws, Republicans wanted the 2012 electorate to be...
View ArticleAdvocates spotlight Voting Rights Act as Supreme Court prepares to hear case...
The Meredith Mississippi March was named for James Meredith, who in 1962 became the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi. In 1966, Meredith, then a law student, led the march...
View ArticleAntonin Scalia shows once again what a vile creature he is
Yes, he really meant it. Associate Justice Antonin Scalia is known for outrageous comments both on and off the Supreme Court bench, where he has distinguished himself for 27 years as one of its most...
View ArticleJohn Roberts has always had it in for the Voting Rights Act
Chief Justice John Roberts caricature by DonkeyHotey. Three decades ago, when John Roberts, now chief justice of the Supreme Court, was just a Reagan-hired grunt in the conservative movement's efforts...
View ArticleMr. 'racial entitlement,' Justice Antonin Scalia, does not deserve to shine...
John Lewis, future congressman, after having his skull fractured by police in a protest in Selma, Alabama, March 1965. In May of 1961, having graduated the previous year from Harvard Law School,...
View ArticleAntonin Scalia on tape
You've read about it. You've rolled your eyes over it. You've pounded your forehead on the table because of it. But now you can actually hear Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia say "perpetuation of...
View ArticleDE-Sen: Chris Coons (D) Gets Ready To Fight For The Voting Rights Act
Last Wednesday, Adam B gave five reasons why Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 might be in trouble with the Supreme Court: http://www.dailykos.com/...And of course, we're all familiar with...
View ArticleSCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act; Kicking Ass on NetrootsRadio.com responds.
The Supreme Court knocks down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. The June 25th 2013 edition of Kicking Ass is on at Noon eastern, 9 am Pacific. Fripp (not that one) and Steve update the latest...
View ArticleVoting Rights Act of 1965 Struck Down: What The Supreme Court Does Not...
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on the Voting Rights Act 0f 1965 in their latest decision of Shelby County, AL v. Holder (12-96); and in their ruling, they claimed that Section 4...
View ArticleSelma
I watched Selma today with my kids. Every American should see it, particularly in this moment in American history where we need to be reminded just what the costs of the Voting Rights Act of 1965...
View ArticleThree distinct yet interconnected policy challenges emerge at the Academy Awards
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View ArticleLawsuit seeks to topple Alabama's all-white courts
Well now, this ought to be interesting: A federal lawsuit has been filed charging that Alabama’s three highest courts—the state Supreme Court, Court of Civil Appeals and the Court of Criminal...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Lessons in Sausage-Making (h/t @JoyAnnReid) 1/23/18
Last week was a writing drought; today I have too many topics to choose from. My final decision was made when I saw a tweet thread from Joy Reid*** that resonated with me, exposed my ignorance, and...
View ArticleTuesday Hangout - Voting Rights Potpourri 10/30/18
I was going to do this post next week, but since so many people have already voted, I decided not to wait. Consider this your motivation for the day, with a few persuasion points, as you talk to...
View ArticleIn three quotes, Republicans admit the 'great party switch'
Republicans and their amen corner in the right-wing media are trying to perpetuate yet another hoax on the American people. In a nutshell, they claim that history ended in 1865 or, at the latest, 1965....
View Article'Big Jim' Eastland would love Mitch McConnell's argument against HR 1
By BERRY CRAIGIn a letter to a constituent, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he "fervently" opposes HR 1, the For the People Act of 2021.Old-time southern white supremacists like Sen. James Eastland,...
View ArticleIt's past time to retire 'a relic that has been used to maintain white...
This post originally appeared on the Kentucky State AFL-CIO website.Click here to sign the AFL-CIO petition "to sideline the filibuster."By BERRY CRAIGAFT Local 1360“The labor-hater and labor-baiter is...
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