sept. 30, 2020, at 6:32 p.m. save comment more judges rule for mail voting in montana and alabama more reuters file photo: an election worker places mail-in ballots into an election box at a drive-through drop off location in san diego, california, u.s. november 5, 2018. reuters/m...
judges . and his supporters are eager to use the levers of power to overturn the legal precedent that allows the shipment of abortion drugs within the united states even if the procedure is legal in the receiving state . the conservative heritage foundation’s project 2025 plan for a trump pr...
"Instructions Sent To Judges Of Value To Primary Voters", Austin American-Statesman, Austin, Texas, 26 July, 1918. These rules clarified that only white men and women would be allowed to vote in the first Democratic primary to follow the passage of Women's Suffrage, despite the thousands of...
in racial gerrymandering cases—and blasted the reactionaries in the majority for thoughtlessly acceding to the state’s request without the benefit of precisely the things the judges in alabama relied on, such as expertise, evidence, and a hearing. “substantial questions merit...
Response to Natural Disasters: Trump's response to natural disasters, such as Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, as well as wildfires in California, faced criticism. Critics argued that the administration's handling of these disasters was inadequate and lacked empathy for affected communities, parti...
A majority of the appeals judges wrote that the Supreme Court in 1974 reaffirmed constitutional law allowing states to disenfranchise felons. About 38% of Mississippi residents are Black. Nearly 50,000 people were disenfranchised under the state’s felony voting ban between 1994 and 2017. More ...
The challengers argued the redistricting plan diluted the power of Black voters by preventing them from electing their preferred candidates in all but one congressional district. A unanimous federal district court panel of three judges found it substantially likely that the map violated Section 2 and...
By existing standards, Alabama’s map is a clear Section 2 violation, according to another voting rights expert, University of Southern California law professor Franita Tolson. The lower court judges — including two appeals court judges appointed by former President Donald Trump — certainly thought...
We have some of the Internet’s hacking elite judging The Hackaday Prize, and that means they can’t enter any projects into the prize. All the better for everyone else, we suppose. One of the judges, [Sprite_tm], is a resourceful guy and when it comes to judging the entries for ...
Suozzi quoted former California Congressman Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, from a speech he wrote for the United Nations on World Holocaust Day, in 2008, “We must remember that the veneer of civilization is paper thin. We are its guardians, and we can never rest.” “As President Biden...