Supreme Court reporter Ian Millhiser reports, The Supreme Court is likely to weaken, but not destroy, the ban on racial gerrymandering: Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour came to the Supreme Court on Tuesday with a raft of ambitious arguments — many of which would dismantle one of the key remaining prongs of the Voting Rights … Read more
It’s the first Monday in October, and you know what that means: SCOTUS is back in session. The Supreme Court announced last Wednesday that the public will be allowed back into the courtroom when the new term begins on Monday, for the first time since it imposed pandemic-related restrictions in March 2020. Supreme Court will … Read more
Civil rights leaders warned about the dangers white supremacy poses to the US following a meeting with President Joe Biden last week. Bloomberg News reports, Civil Rights Leaders Warn of Threat From White Supremacy: “White supremacy activity is a danger to our democracy,” Derrick Johnson, CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored … Read more
Update to QAnon Queen Sen. Kelly Townsend Calls On GQP ‘Vigilantes’ To Spy On Early Voters (excerpt): The QAnon Queen and white Christian Nationalist, Sen. Kelly Townsend, R-Apache Junction, called on “vigilantes” to spy on people who deposit early ballots in ballot drop boxes for elections later this year, imploring them to use hidden cameras and … Read more
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