Schumer: If 94% of voters say voting in 2020 was easy, let's keep laws intact, Big Lie must be false

Nothing is better than using your enemy’s weapons against them. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer did just that, practically shoving Sen. John Cornyn’s chart and questions straight down …

Stacey Abrams 'bullish' about passage of voting rights legislation like the John Lewis Act

Voting rights is at the top of lawmakers’ minds for the 2022 midterms, where new redistricting maps will take effect across the country. Already, some of those maps have faced pushback because …

Schumer to bring up Manchin's voting rights bill next week, with GOP filibuster all but guaranteed

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced in a letter to Senate Democrats Thursday that he will bring the Freedom To Vote Act to the floor when the Senate returns next week. This is the bill that …

Biden betrays the Black activists who got him to the White House in filibuster stance

President Joe Biden’s clear intent to try to unify the nation is laudable. It’s a message a very large chunk of America loves to hear: that the people they elected will come together to …

166 companies sign letter to Congress urging lawmakers to expand Voting Rights Act

On Wednesday, more than 150 major companies sent a letter urging lawmakers to introduce and pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, an amendment to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as …

Biden to Republicans: 'Have you no shame?' Of course not! That's why the filibuster has to go

President Joe Biden gave a stemwinder of a speech in Philadelphia Tuesday, declaring that the restoration of voting rights is the urgent national “test of our time,” and calling the mass …

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 …

This Supreme Court session was bad, but wait until you see what they have on tap for the next one

The Supreme Court, as if putting a pin in how destructive its rulings this week are to democracy, announced all the other ways it will consider taking an axe to 21st century America in the October …

Biden, Democrats have no choice: Fight the Supreme Court or consign American democracy to history

The burden on 50 Senate Democrats and President Joe Biden to save democracy became much heavier Thursday, and even more urgent. In a 6-3 majority opinion, the Supreme Court gutted what remained of the …

Supreme Court's conservatives deal historic blow to the Voting Rights Act's last remaining pillar

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 and overturn a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that …

The Supreme Court is about to rule on voting rights, and it's not likely to be good

The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to release an opinion any day now on Brnovich v. DNC and with it could strike another devastating blow to the Voting Rights Act. The court heard the case back in …

McConnell crows over how he got Manchin, Sinema to be his tools in destroying America

Good job, Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. You’ve given Mitch McConnell two gifts: He can obstruct President Joe Biden’s agenda and he can give the traditional media fodder …