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This is a fascinating challenge to Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law on the grounds that it violates the fundamental conditions placed on its 1870 re-admission to the Union. The Court’s docket ...
If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...
As of now, at least 9 percent of voting-age American citizens – approximately 21 million people – do not even have driver’s licenses, let alone proof of citizenship. In spite of this, many legislators ...
Can voters use Real ID to satisfy SAVE Act voting rules, as Byron Daniels said? Not in 44 states. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act, which has passed the U.S. House, would ...
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on May 15 on the federal government’s request to be allowed to implement President ...
DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.
Democrats have deployed misleading arguments against the proof-of-citizenship voter registration bill, the SAVE Act.
The city of St. Louis and the leader of its city council filed a federal lawsuit Monday against a new Missouri law putting a state-appointed board back in control of the local ...
The vote was 54-45, with Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as ... But that order only applies in the 19 states and the District of Columbia that sued the administration. The Justice Department is ...
The prime minister has vowed to legislate to give 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote, in line with Labour’s election manifesto commitment. Dame Meg Hillier, the chair of the liaison committee of ...
“The detainees are confined in Texas, so venue is improper in the District of Columbia ... of hard-right Republicans. Republicans have long asserted that proxy voting — when lawmakers ...