Voting Rights Act

Florida Defies U.S. Warning To Halt Voter Purge

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 06.03.2012

Read More: Latino, Latino Voters, Voting Rights Act, Black Voters, Elections 2012, Florida, Immigrant, Hispanics, Florida Voter Purge, Latino Voices News

Florida will defy a federal warning to stop purging people the state suspects aren't U.S. citizens from voter registration rolls. Despite a Justic...

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The Wall Street Journal's Hit Piece on Eric Holder

William K. Black | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Birthers, Voter Disenfranchisement, Voting Rights Act, Voting Rights, Black Voters, Voter ID Laws, Racism, Disenfranchisement, Wall Street Journal, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Republicans, Voter ID, Media News

The Wall Street Journal's editorial denouncing "Holder's Racial Incitement" is so foul and tendentious about Holder's comments, America, and the partisan effort to deprive American citizens of one their most precious rights -- the right to vote -- that it compels response.

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Holder On Voter ID Laws: Discrimination Not Yet Relegated To Pages Of History

The Huffington Post | Gene Demby | Posted 05.31.2012

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Attorney General Eric Holder told members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Conference of National Black Churches on Wednesday that the right ...

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Appeals Court Upholds Key Voting Rights Provision

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting an Alabama county's challenge to the landma...

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Obama's and America's Remarkable Evolution on Gay Rights

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.11.2012

Historians will no doubt view President Obama's announcement favoring same-sex marriage as an historic statement, parallel to those of FDR on workers' rights and LBJ on civil rights. But like FDR and LBJ, Obama's endorsement was due to a combination of personal belief and political opportunity.

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WATCH GOP Rep To Civil Rights Leader: I'm Sorry

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Paul Broun, John Lewis Paul Broun, Video, Voter Identification, Voting Rights Act, John Lewis, Civil-Rights, Voter ID Laws, Voter Identification Laws, John Lewis Voting Rights Act, Politics News

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a leading figure in the civil rights movement, took to the House floor late Wednesday night to call out a colleague over an a...

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Racism in Post-racial America

Jason Stanford | Posted 06.03.2012

Read More: Attorney General Greg Abbott, Newt Gingrich, Voter Suppression, Voting Rights Act, Trayvon Martin, Texas Voter Id, Racism in America, Voter ID Laws, Politics News

Y'all can go home. Put away your hoodies and cancel the vigils. Pick up the race cards, the game's over. There is no more racism in America. The Texas Attorney General said so.

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Voter ID Laws Protect the Integrity of the Ballot Box

Ken Blackwell | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Voter ID Laws, Voter Fraud, Voter ID, 2012 Election, Voters, Voting, Indiana Voter ID Law, South Carolina Voter Id Law, Attorney General Eric Holder, Voting Rights Act, Eric Holder, Politics News

America's focus on having free and fair elections is one of the reasons the United States is the oldest democratic republic on earth. Failing to ensure the integrity of the democratic process in elections is a mistake a free people often makes only once.

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Voter ID Insanity at DOJ Going to the United Nations

Ken Blackwell | Posted 05.13.2012

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The right to vote includes the right not to have your vote diluted by fraudulent votes. And as citizens, each of us has a duty to comply with reasonable measures to ensure that our elections are free and fair.

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Latinos Divided Over Texas Redistricting Agreement

Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Texas Primary, Texas, Henry Cuellar, Texas Primary 2012, Redistricting, Video, Latino Politics, Voting Rights Act, Texas Redistricting, Texas Primary Election 2012, Texas Redistricting 2012, Texas Redistricting Maps, Latino Voices News

The recent agreement reached between Democrats and Republicans over the Texas redistricting process broke an impasse that already caused postponing th...

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Wisconsin Judge Temporarily Stops Controversial New Law

The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 03.06.2012

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A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday granted a temporary injunction stopping the state's controversial voter identification law. As a result, the law will not...

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U.S. Must Expand, Not Suppress, Voting Rights

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Al Sharpton, Voter Fraud, Voter Registration, Voting Rights Act, Bloody Sunday, Republicans, Wisconsin Voter ID, Gop Voter Id Polls, Voter ID Laws, Voter ID, Politics News

Will Americans reward a party that is systematically seeking to make it harder to vote? Will they accept routine harassment of minorities because of their fears about immigration? Will the politics of division once more be effective?

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"On Account of Race or Color": A New Front Opens in the Fight Against Wisconsin's Voter ID Law

Jon Sherman | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Photo ID, Voter ID Laws, Wisconsin, Voting Rights, Aclu, Voting Rights Act, Politics News

It's a crime to disfranchise anyone, but this just seems particularly cruel. Fear not, though -- help is on the way for Eddie: He just has to pay hundreds of dollars to amend his birth certificate in court.

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Candidates Study New Texas Political Maps

AP | CHRIS TOMLINSON and PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 04.30.2012

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AUSTIN, Texas — Disheartened and angry over the latest Texas voting maps handed down by federal judges, Democrats and minority rights groups loo...

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GOP Again Has Its Sights on the Voting Rights Act

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.23.2012

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A renewed assault on the Voting Rights Act fits right into the Tea Party's endless attacks on the federal government for alleged over-intrusiveness. It would also be set against the backdrop of the hotly contested 2012 battle for the White House.

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This Black History Month, Remember the Past and Change the Future

Rep. Marcia L. Fudge | Posted 04.11.2012

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Why in 2012 are we returning to the days of limiting the vote rather than encouraging it? How can we forget how far we've come as a nation?

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South Carolina Fights Back Against Justice Department For Blocking Voter ID Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 02.23.2012

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The state of South Carolina yesterday filed a lawsuit challenging the Justice Department's recent blocking of the state's recent voter identification ...

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South Carolina Hits Back At Justice Department's Bold Move

AP | MEG KINNARD | Posted 04.08.2012

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The U.S. Justice Department was wrong to block South Carolina from requiring voters to show government-issued photo identificat...

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INFOGRAPHIC: See Why Dems Are Upset About Michigan's New Districts

The Huffington Post | Simone Landon | Posted 01.25.2012

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The U.S. Department of Justice has approved Michigan's Republican-designed redistricting plan, despite complaints from Democrats and a lawsuit that al...

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The Supreme Court and the Texas Gerrymander

Lou Dubose | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: US Supreme Court, Minority Voters, Republican Party, Voting Rights Act, Texas Legislature, Clarence Thomas, Texas, Redistricting, Gerrymandering, Texas Redistricting, Texas Gerrymandering, Politics News

When the Court ruled in favor of the State of Texas and ordered a three-judge panel in San Antonio to redraw maps they had drawn in November, did nine justices vote to uphold a racial gerrymander that violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act?

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Black Leaders Send Message To Nikki Haley

AP | JEFFREY COLLINS | Posted 03.23.2012

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Civil rights leaders bothered by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's stance on issues like requiring voters to show their IDs at ...

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Supreme Court Shakes Up Texas Elections

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 03.21.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In a partial victory for Texas Republicans, the Supreme Court on Friday morning sent Texas' redistricting maps back to the drawing board...

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Court Takes On Voting Rights Challenge

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 03.20.2012

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WASHINGTON — Appeals court judges expressed concern Thursday about whether to overrule Congress' determination that some southern states and oth...

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One More Victory for Democracy as Citizens Redistricting Commission Clears Another Hurdle

Vince Barabba | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Voting Rights Act, California Citizens Redistricting Commission, Redistricting, California Voters First Act, California, Politics News

California's experiment with redistricting reform worked. It proved that at the end of the day interested and engaged voters can dramatically change government for the good of the people.

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Revisionist History and 'The Food Stamp President': Celebrating MLK Day With the GOP Candidates

Michael B. Keegan | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Civil Rights Act, GOP Debate, Martin Luther King, Voting Rights Act, David Barton, Voting Rights, South Carolina, Mitt Romney, Martin Luther King Day, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Nikki Haley, GOP Candidates, Politics News

Monday could have been an opportunity for the GOP candidates to express their support for the myriad advances of the Civil Rights movement and the problems that remain, but it turned into a mess of racially-charged attacks on African Americans, immigrants and the poor instead.

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