In a Wall Street Journal column last week, Sen. Ted “Cancún” Cruz (R-TX) warned that CEOs opposing Republican threats to voting rights will be excluded from his party’s pay-to-play legislative operation — because they’re no longer conservative enough for the GOP. For example, Republicans will stop accepting donations in exchange for “looking the other way” … Read more
States are months away from getting the census data they need to draw new political maps, but courts are already filling up with lawsuits challenging the redistricting process. Politico reports, Delayed census data kicks off flood of redistricting lawsuits: One of the Democratic Party’s most prominent lawyers quickly filed three suits in states where neither Republicans … Read more
In case you missed it with the coverage of the Chauvin verdict, the Global Climate Summit, and the debate over the American Jobs Plan, former Minnesota Senator, Vice President, and 1984 Democratic Presidential Nominee Walter Mondale passed away this week at the age of 93. President Jimmy Carter, for whom Mondale served from 1976 to … Read more
The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act bill needs to be passes A.S.A.P. Redistricting will begin shortly, this summer. Section 5 DOJ Preclearance needs to be restored and in effect by then. POLITICO reports, The redistricting cycle is about to begin: The most chaotic year in congressional politics is about to begin. The U.S. Census … Read more
The anti-democratic, anti-majoritarian tendencies of authoritarian Republicans is growing worse. A Pew Research Center poll released on Thursday, which finds that Republicans increasingly oppose measures that would expand access to the ballot. The Drop in Republican Support for Voting Rights: The percentage of Republicans and independents leaning toward the G.O.P. who said that voters should be … Read more