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Voting Rights Roundup: Top North Carolina court halts filing, a sign it could block GOP gerrymanders

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● North Carolina: In a major sign that it is likely to eventually block Republicans’ newly enacted congressional and legislative gerrymanders in a pair of pending cases, North …

Sat Dec 11, 2021

Voting Rights Roundup: Redistricting heats up as four states pass new maps for House and legislature

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Redistricting: The decade’s long-delayed redistricting process finally got into swing last week, as several states adopted final maps for both Congress and their legislatures, while …

Sat Oct 2, 2021

Voting Rights Roundup: Texas Dems take their case to D.C. after fleeing to block new GOP voting bill

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● Texas: For the second time this year, Democrats in the Texas state House have resorted to the highly unusual tactic of boycotting their own legislative session in order to stop …

Sat Jul 17, 2021

Voting Rights Roundup: Supreme Court guts the last critical protections of the Voting Rights Act

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● Supreme Court: On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservatives ruled 6-3 along ideological lines to strike a historic blow against the Voting Rights Act in overturning a 9th Circuit …

Sat Jul 3, 2021

Voting Rights Roundup: Texas Dems stop GOP voting restrictions with walkout, but the bill may return

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● Texas: In a dramatic turn of events, Texas Republicans finalized the details of a far-reaching voting restriction bill and tried to pass it in the middle of the night over the Memorial …

Sat Jun 5, 2021

Voting Rights Roundup: Arizona GOP's bill strips Dem election chief's power only until her term ends

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● Arizona: Republicans have passed a bill in committees in the state Senate and House that would strip Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs of the power to defend the state in …

Sat May 29, 2021

Voting Rights Roundup: Mississippi's Supreme Court kills off ballot initiatives for an absurd reason

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● Mississippi: On Friday, Mississippi’s conservative-dominated state Supreme Court obliterated the state’s entire ballot initiative process by striking it down on the most …

Sat May 15, 2021