Voting Rights Roundup: Pennsylvania GOP advances voting restrictions designed to bypass governor

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● Pennsylvania: State House Republicans have passed a constitutional amendment out of committee and onto the full floor that would adopt several new voting restrictions. The amendment …

Voting Rights Roundup: Michigan GOP plots stealth voting restrictions to circumvent governor's veto

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● Michigan: Michigan Republicans have launched an effort to adopt new statutory voting restrictions via ballot initiative, but in reality, it’s an attempt by GOP lawmakers to use …

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 …

Voting Rights Roundup: In major about face, Manchin lays out path for compromise on election reforms

Programming Note: The Voting Rights Roundup will be taking a break the week of June 25 but will return the following week.

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● Congress: In a major development for the fate of congressional …