Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who called a special session to enact onerous new voter suppression laws based upon Trump’s Big Lie, was thwarted by Texas Democrats who fled to Washington, D.C. (Texodus) to plead their case with Democrats in Congress that they must pass the For The People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights … Read more
Laurence H. Tribe is a professor of constitutional law emeritus at Harvard Law School; Barbara McQuade, a law professor at the University of Michigan Law School and the former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan; and Joyce White Vance, a professor at the University of Alabama School of Law and the former U.S. … Read more
Multiple news outlets reported this week on a draft letter by former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, a QAnon cultist Trump sycophant, that was a roadmap to Trump’s coup d’etat plot. It would have resulted in the worst constitutional crisis in American history if higher ups at the Department of Justice had not threatened a … Read more
Attorney General Merrick Garland in an op-ed at the Washington Post on the anniversary of the landmark Voting Rights Act writes, Merrick Garland: It is time for Congress to act again to protect the right to vote: Fifty-six years ago [today], the Voting Rights Act became law. At the signing ceremony, President Lyndon B. Johnson … Read more
Apparently there has been some progress on the negotiations for revised voting rights legislation. The New York Times reports, Schumer is said to tell senators to expect votes on voting rights legislation within days. Senate Democrats will make another, likely futile [60 votes for cloture], attempt to take up voting rights legislation in the coming … Read more