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Articles on the Voting Rights Act are being filed in the “obituary” section, even though the act is less than fifty years old. Last week, a US Court of Appeals decision ruled against Shelby County, Alabama, which challenged the constitutionality of VRA ...
May 24, 2012 at 14:24 | Source: Nation
Florida officials made it clear Friday that the state will continue to purge as many as 182,000 suspected noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls -- despite a coalition's call to stop the process or prepare for court. In the last three weeks ...
May 27, 2012 at 14:07 | Source: Huffington Post
"DO WE still need the Voting Rights Act?" asks Jeffrey Toobin. Good question. Congress asked that very same thing in 2006. They said yes. And they said yes not to punish the South, or because they remain stuck in an antiquated mindset, or because judges on ...
May 24, 2012 at 02:22 | Source: Economist.com
Every registered voter in Virginia will soon receive a new ID card, thanks to a savvy and sensible order by Gov. Bob McDonnell. The governor issued the directive as he signed a new measure that slightly tightens voter-ID requirements. That didn ...
May 27, 2012 at 03:44 | Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
Some British MPs are outraged by a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights that prisoners must be given the right to vote in political elections. The Court supported a prior ruling that a blanket prohibition on inmates in England and ...
May 22, 2012 at 18:37 | Source: International Business Times
WASHINGTON - May 18 - Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, affirming the summary judgment of the D.C. District Court. In Shelby County ...
May 18, 2012 at 16:48 | Source: Common Dreams
A row erupted yesterday between human rights judges and David Cameron after the European court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that prisoners in the UK must be given the right to vote. Strasbourg Court has ruled that the blanket of ...
May 23, 2012 at 20:02 | Source: theupcoming.co.uk
Wanted to be sure you saw this Prince George’s Sentinel op-ed by Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer on the Voter Empowerment Act of 2012, comprehensive voting rights legislation introduced by House Democrats last week. To read the op-ed, click here or see below ...
May 25, 2012 at 19:10 | Source: News Room America
The story of American democracy has been the expansion of voting rights to more and more citizens. Yet now, conservatives linked to the Republican Party are systematically seeking to constrict the vote. We can’t let them get away with this. In the early ...
May 21, 2012 at 22:49 | Source: Chicago Sun-Times
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting an Alabama county's challenge to the landmark civil rights law. The provision requires state, county and local governments with a history ...
May 18, 2012 at 15:29 | Source: Huffington Post