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Voting Rights Act Of 1965
Supreme Court Keeps Eroding the Voting Rights Act Without so much as a hearing, conservative justices restored an Alabama congressional map designed to minimize Black representation.
By Ed Kilgore
The GOP Has Adopted an Anti-Voting-Rights Case It Once Rejected Today’s Republicans are using the same arguments southern Democrats once used to oppose the original Voting Rights Act.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Nov. 4, 2021
Merrick Garland Initiates His Plan B for Voting Rights With the GOP blocking voting-rights legislation, the DOJ is suing Texas over voting restrictions with the powers that AG Merrick Garland still has.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Nov. 3, 2021
Shameless Republicans Filibuster Voting-Rights Protections They Used to Support What happened in the 15 years since Senate Republicans unanimously backed the same voting-rights procedures they now oppose? Nothing good.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Sept. 15, 2021
Surrendering to Republicans on Voting Rights Won’t Save Democracy Joe Manchin seems to think voting-rights reforms have to be bipartisan to work. But letting Republicans run wild won’t encourage them to compromise.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Aug. 25, 2021
What Would the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act Actually Do? The legislation, which just passed the House again, would slow down state voter-suppression measures. But it is opposed by nearly all Republicans.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
July 8, 2021
The Trouble the Supreme Court Is Making for Voters Voting-rights advocates are realizing that even if they prevail in Congress, the Court’s conservative majority is a major obstacle.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
July 8, 2021
Kamala Harris Unveils Another Fallback Strategy for Voting Rights Getting voters to the polls despite hostile state laws is a valuable Plan B for voting rights, not a mere a gesture after failure in Congress.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
June 29, 2021
Bipartisan Voting-Rights Legislation May Simply Be Impossible The pious hopes of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema notwithstanding, we are in a historic moment, like Reconstruction, when one party is incorrigible.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
June 23, 2021
Democrats’ Voting Rights Push Stalled. It Was Still Worth It. The effort to enact the For the People Act was a smart investment that will pay off richly for Democrats.
By Ed Kilgore
Can Joe Manchin of All People Trigger a Breakthrough on Voting Rights? The much-maligned Democrat has unveiled a compromise proposal that is getting praise from his party for a change.
By Ed Kilgore
Merrick Garland Unveils Plan B for Protecting Voting Rights As new congressional legislation stalls, the Justice Department will utilize the powers it already possesses to fight voter-suppression measures.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
May 30, 2021
Democrats Need a New Plan to Defend Voting Rights The outlook is dim for voting-rights legislation. DOJ enforcement and voter mobilization may be Democrats’ best shot for defending democracy.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Apr. 22, 2021
The John Lewis Voting Rights Act Picks Up Steam With a broader bill stalled, the Congressional Black Caucus pushes Democrats to restore the original Voting Rights Act.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Apr. 7, 2021
Six Bad Ideas About Voting That Republicans Need to Abandon The GOP insists its efforts in Georgia and beyond aren’t about voter suppression, but its faulty assumptions are preventing real election reform.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Mar. 26, 2021
What Can Democrats Do About Georgia’s Voting-Rights Restrictions? They are already going to court, and could pass preemptive legislation in Congress. But winning control of the state in 2022 is the best solution.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Mar. 24, 2021
Will Joe Manchin Save Voting Rights? Manchin’s state is afoul of many provisions of the For the People Act. A more modest bill might help convince him to support a filibuster exception.
By Ed Kilgore
Will Democrats Act Like the Party of Voting Rights or Not? The conservative Supreme Court and GOP are set to do even more damage unless they’re stopped.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Jan. 19, 2021
Democrats Push Voting-Rights Expansion With Fresh Urgency Republicans will block the reforms, but at the price of underlining an authoritarian strain in their thinking that will outlive Trump’s presidency.
By Ed Kilgore
filibuster reform
July 20, 2020
Could Civil Rights Force Democrats to Kill the Filibuster? Voting rights and racial-justice legislation may provide the perfect reason for Democrats to unite in favor of filibuster reform.
By Ed Kilgore
John Lewis’s Lifelong Struggle for Voting Rights Isn’t Over Once it looked like Obama’s election represented the culmination of John Lewis’s career. A new documentary shows battles for old causes persist.
By Ed Kilgore
super tuesday
Mar. 3, 2020
Texas, Super Tuesday Juggernaut, Is a Voting-Rights Nightmare New analysis from the Guardian shows that Texas leads the American South in poll-site closures since 2012.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
voter suppression
Dec. 13, 2019
Georgia Is Really Good at Making It Hard for Black People to Vote, Study Finds A new analysis reveals the impact of precinct closures and poll-site relocations on voter turnout.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
voting rights
Mar. 21, 2019
Democrats’ Voting-Rights Push Could Begin a Third Reconstruction Partisan polarization over voting rights shows how much political power, now as in the 1860s and 1960s, depends on who participates in democracy.
By Ed Kilgore
Surprise: Black Voters Still Don’t Like Donald Trump Trump’s claim he would get 95 percent of the black vote in 2020 is looking like absolutely the polar opposite of reality.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Nov. 26, 2018
Why a National Campaign for Voting Rights Is Essential While a constitutional voting-rights amendment is unlikely, a national campaign could do much good, and Democrats are foolish if they don’t pursue it.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Oct. 16, 2018
Brian Kemp’s Fake Crusade for Election Integrity in Georgia He claims he’s fighting fraud. But the Republican secretary of state is actually disenfranchising voters while ignoring real infrastructure problems.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
voting rights
Aug. 24, 2018
Georgia County Debacle Shows Why We Need a Voting-Rights Act With Teeth It took an army of lawyers, activists, journalists, and citizens to provide the scrutiny the Voting Rights Act of 1965 used to make routine.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Aug. 20, 2018
Georgia County Trying to Close Most of Its Polling Places The move is a dramatic attack on voting opportunities in a small county.
By Ed Kilgore
Supreme Court Opens Door to More Red-State Voter Purges In a 5-4 decision, SCOTUS finds a rationale for policing voting rolls in ways that disproportionately affect minorities.
By Ed Kilgore