nature; "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; "Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt; "a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take ...
Karnataka seer booked over ‘no voting rights for Muslims’ comments india news Published 63 days ago Leprosy patients in Kalyan vote to demand better support and rights cities Updated 71 days ago US Election Day: Here's why Trump, a convicted felon, can still vote today ...
Women voting rights were, moreover, something too late. Vote from Streets to Ballots But she and her daughter helped put on an all female "mock parliament" in which women, using the same argument used by the Canadian government to deny women voting rights, voted to refuse men the right to...
According to Voting Rights Lab, 535 bills have been introduced across 39 states that would restrict voter access or election administration. Some of these bills—like Illinois’ H.B. 4761—can be fairly characterized as benign changes to election law. Shortening the early voting period so it ...
Plaintiffs in voting rights case urge judges to toss Alabama’s new congressional map Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]July 31, 2023 Tennessee now requires court order or proof of pardon to restore felon voting rights ...
julia_azari:Yeah, this is a pretty well-documented phenomenon. I want to make sure we clarify, though, that we are using this as an illustration of how important voting rights are to people, and not in the sense of “these laws are OK because there’s always countermobilization!” T...
Democrats Hope a Voting Rights Failure Sparks Change on Senate Filibuster More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) attends a hearing to discuss President Biden's budget request for FY 2022, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S.,...
I am deeply troubled today because your rights as voters are under attack. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed Senate Bill 202 into law on March 25, 2021, in private. The Constitution says that states shall make no laws that abridge your right to vote. We assert that the bill abridges you...
“We still have tools available to us, but fewer than we once did,” said Sean Morales-Doyle, of Brennan Center’s Democracy Project. And even in those two recent rulings that gutted the Voting Rights Act – 2013’s Shelby v. Holder and July 2021’s Brnovich v. DNC — the Supreme ...
you can use the system to ‘legitimize’ reasons to take rights away…. [B]ut there’s no reason that laws can’t be used to target other groups. If we allow disenfranchisement to be used against one group of people, what’s going to stop people in power from targeting anyone else?