voting rights

August 2016

Courts across the nation reject voter suppression laws

By |2016-08-11T12:07:10-07:00August 11th, 2016|Categories: Articles, Info|Tags: , |

Over the past few weeks, courts across the nation have rejected a number of state laws that were recently passed with the intent to restrict access to vote. Although the sponsors of the various state laws claim that the laws are intended to “prevent voter fraud,” in truth they are aimed at preventing poor and minority voters from voting by requiring specific types of ID to vote, eliminating early voting, and implementing a number of other measures that make it harder to vote. As the presidential election nears, the courts are seeing through the “voter fraud” ruse, and repeatedly rejecting these laws.

April 2016

US Supreme Court rejects attempt to marginalize Latino communities in Texas under the guise of “voter equality”

By |2016-04-12T15:09:05-07:00April 12th, 2016|Categories: Articles, Info|Tags: , , |

Last week, in Evenwel v. Abbott, the US Supreme Court rejected the latest attempt at political gerrymandering aimed at disenfranchising Latino communities in Texas. This attempt has been attributed as the brainchild of the “Project on Fair Representation,” a right-wing group that succeeded in dismantling a key protection against racial discrimination in the Voting Rights Act in the 2013 case Shelby County v. Holder.

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