voting rights act
McConnell says Democrats’ bid to restore Voting Rights Act is a ‘power grab’
WASHINGTON – The battle over voting rights ahead of the 2020 election is officially on in Congress, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell insisting Democratic-led efforts to strengthen voting rights laws […]
Immigrant and Voting Rights Activists Shut Down NYC-NJ Bridge in #SomosVisible Campaign
*Not everyone agreed with the traffic-stop tactic. Are actions like these productive? VL By Yessenia Funes, Colorlines (1.5 minute read) At around 8 a.m. EST [Thursday, October 26], 10 immigrant and […]
Texans deserve the full protection of the Voting Rights Act
*Any time legendary civil rights attorney Al Kauffman has something to say I consider it worthy of publication. VL By Al Kauffman, NewsTaco (6 minute read) Section 5 of the […]
Texas Voter ID Law Violates Voting Rights Act, Court Rules
*I know it’s not dancing cats on Facebook, or ridiculous memes about cribbed political speeches, but this is a BIG deal. VL By Jim Malewitz, Texas Tribune Texas’ voter identification law […]
Congressional Democrats Launch a New Strategy to Restore the Voting Rights Act
*You can call it the VRA 2.0. When the Supreme Court gutted section 5 of the Voting Rights Act I saw a bright side – that the gutting provided the […]
Why Latinos Are Still Fighting For The Voting Rights Act
*Lot’s of developments this past week on the voting rights front: The 50th anniversary of the VRA and a Texas lawsuit that found strength in Section 2 of the Act […]
For Latinos, 1965 Voting Rights Act Impact Came A Decade Later
*For Latinos, 1975 was just as significant as 1965. The VRA extension of that year ended language discrimination at the polls. VL By Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News Gloria Molina has […]
Obama to call for Voting Rights Act restoration on law’s anniversary
*There’s momentum in the President’s planned call for restoration of the VRA. It’s the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and yesterday’s voter ID victory in Texas put voting […]
MALDEF welcomes fifth circuit rling that Texas voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act
*Yesterday’s reports about the Fifth Circuit’s ruling on Texas’ Voter ID law were confusing to many people. Some said the law violated the VRA but would remain in effect until […]
The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Now a bipartisan gang wants to put it back together.
By Dylan Matthews, The Washington Post It’s rare that you can get Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and John Conyers (D-Mich.) to agree on much of anything. The former, after all, introduced […]