Arizona House

Arizona Sued (Again) For Jim Crow 2.0 Violations Of The Voting Rights Act

Arizona has a long, sordid history of voter suppression, and it has only gotten worse Since Chief Justice John Roberts, who spent his legal career working to destroy the Voting Rights Act to make America safe for wealthy white Christian males who are Republicans, finally succeeded in gutting the Voting Rights Act with Shelby County … Read more

Supreme Court Allows Pennsylvania To Count Mail-in Ballots Missing A Date

Update to Justice Alito Steps Into ‘Pennsyltucky’ GQP Senate Primary Recount: “The Supreme Court on Tuesday put a hold on a lower court ruling that said election officials in Pennsylvania must count mail-in ballots from voters who failed to fill in the date on their ballot envelopes.” This “emergency appeal” is on the court’s “shadow docket.” … Read more

2020 Redux in Pennsylvania GQP Senate Primary – Possibly To Be Decided By SCOTUS

On Friday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled  in Migliori et al v. Lehigh County Board of Elections – a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union – that 257 mail-in ballots that had been excluded from the 2021 general election because voters had not handwritten a date on the outer … Read more

A Radical Theory Of ‘Property Rights’ That Failed Against The Civil Rights Act Is Back At SCOTUS For Union Busting

Voting officially ends Monday for some 5,800 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, who have been casting ballots by mail on whether to unionize. It’s going to take some time to count their votes. Historic Amazon Union Vote Count Begins This Week For Alabama Warehouse. While we are awaiting the results, the U.S. Supreme Court … Read more

In Memoriam: Rep. John Lewis – ‘Find a way to get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble’

Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) died on Friday, from cancer. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in a statement declaring: “America mourns the loss of one of the greatest heroes of American history.” Born the son of sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South, Lewis rose to become known as “the conscience of the U.S. … Read more