This past week, the legendary Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) passed away. The soft-spoken Democratic Senate Leader was also tough as nails – when he was a boxer in his youth, his nickname was “the honey badger.” Bill Dauster, former deputy chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, eulogizes, Remembering Sen. Harry Reid, Soft-Spoken … Read more
Voters across the country have enacted Independent Redistricting Commissions as a good government reform to take partisan gerrymandering (in which politicians select their own voters to create “safe” districts) out of the redistricting process, hoping that a nonpartisan commission would produce competitive districts so that voting actually matters. It was a good concept, but it hasn’t … Read more
After delivering a floor speech in the Senate, Senator Maggie Hassan talks with Rachel Maddow about the looming partisan threat to U.S. democracy and her change of heart about the Senate filibuster rule that Republicans are hiding behind to allow state Republicans to compromise the integrity of the election process. Paul Waldman of the Washington … Read more
Department of Justice Press Release: Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against the State of Texas to Challenge Statewide Redistricting Plans The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it has filed a lawsuit under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act against the State of Texas and the Texas Secretary of State, challenging the State’s redistricting … Read more
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told “Axios on HBO” that the “integrity of our democracy” is at stake without federal voting rights legislation, and the Senate must seriously consider filibuster reform if it can’t get 60 votes to pass it next year. Rep. Jeffries demands filibuster reform to pass voting rights bill. “It’s an open question … Read more