Voting Rights

Remembering Bloody Sunday: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 03.09.2010 | Politics

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Jim Crow, Politics, Constitution, Martin Luther King, Voting Rights Act, Voting Rights, Alabama, Racism, Selma, Lyndon Johnson, Bloody Sunday, Civil Rights, Politics News

As right-wingers gabble loosely about secession and revolution, it's worth remembering that our nation experienced a second - necessary and successful - American revolution 45 years ago.

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Jimmie Lee Jackson: The Death That Gave Life to Voting Rights

Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 02.18.2010 | Politics

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King, Selma, Civil Rights, Montgomery Alabama, Voting Rights Act, Voting Rights, Racism, Politics News

The death of Jimmie Lee Jackson set in motion a train of events that stirred a lethargic nation, compelling once-reluctant politicians to use their power to ensure that all adult citizens could register and vote.

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Building High Speed Rail Isn't a Bolshevik Plot

Joel Epstein | Posted 02.01.2010 | Los Angeles

If you drive on the Interstate, benefit from the Voting Rights Act of 1964 or live free of polio, smallpox, and other communicable diseases, go ahead and thank the government.

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Voting Rights Section Battle: Controversial Bush Appointee Reassigned

The American Prospect | Adam Serwer | Posted 01.08.2010 | Politics

Read More: Vote, Justice Department, Voting Rights Chief Reassignment, Voting Rights, Obama Administration, Obama, Christopher Coates, Coates, Voting Rights Chief, Bush Appointees, Voting, Politics News

Sometime during Christmas week, Christopher Coates, the chief of the Voting Rights Section of the Justice Department, was quietly reassigned to an 18-...

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Mad Hatters Don't Have Monopoly on Patriotism

David Segal | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Election Reform, Providence Journal, Voting Rights, Progressives, Immigration, Rhode Island, Tea Party, Labor Unions, Providence, History, Dorr Rebellion, Politics News

In Rhode Island, it was left-leaning patriots, in the form of labor activists, immigrants, and suffragists, who propelled Rhode Island towards the ratification of its constitution in 1842.

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A Surprisingly Successful G-20 Summit

Georges Ugeux | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Emerging Nations, G-20 Summit, Financial Services, Bank of International Settlements, Voting Rights, President Barack Obama, G-8, Global Governance, G-7, Financial Crisis, Imf, Pittsburgh, Bonuses, Board for Financial Stability, World Bank, Istanbul, World News

This year, President Obama drove a very different agenda -- one focused on discussing how the world can form global governance and cooperate to stimulate the ailing economies.

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Remembering Ted Kennedy's Early Career

Danny Miller | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Senate, Massachusetts, Health Care, Voting Rights, Harry Truman, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

Ironically, it was President Kennedy's assassination less than a year into Ted's first term that really allowed the younger Kennedy to find his place on the national stage.

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Members of Congress Join National Effort to Restore Voting Rights to Millions of Americans

Erika Wood | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Criminal Disenfranchisement Law, Criminal Justice, Prisoners, Democracy Restoration Act of 2009, Voting Rights, Voting, Politics News

Four million Americans with past criminal convictions are out of prison and living in the community -- working, paying taxes and raising families. 35 states continue to disenfranchise people who are not in prison, often for decades and sometimes for life.

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A Law Worth Saving

Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim Crow, Voting Rights Act, Voting Rights, Racial Disparities, Racial Discrimination, Apology-Slavery-Jim-Crow, Congress Votes, Politics News

The pre-clearance provision is the most powerful weapon against racial discrimination in voting that Congress has ever devised and must be saved.

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Clarence Thomas

Jeff Danziger | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ussc, Political Cartoon, Voting Rights, Clarence Thomas, Cartoon, Politics News

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Passing on Our Values: The Legacy of Freedom

Rachael Freed | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Alice-Paul, Legacy, Independence Day, Legacy-Writing, Voting Rights, Communication, Freedom, Living News

Our daughters and granddaughters, texting and twittering, can't imagine a world before computers, or television, a world when American women didn't have the freedom to vote.

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NAMUDNO and the Dilemma of Observational Equivalence

David Epstein | Posted 07.26.2009 | Style

Read More: Supreme Court, Race, Voting Rights, Sonia Sotomayor, US Supreme Court, Namudno, Obama Supreme Court, Style News

Going into this case, the common wisdom was that there was no easy way out for the Court.

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Supreme Court Exempts Texas District From Key Provision Of Voting Rights Act

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Texas, Supreme Court Ruling, Voting Rights Act, Voting Rights, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Voting Rights Act, the government's chief weapon against racial discrimination at polling places since the 1960s, survived a Su...

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Senator Sessions, Judge Sotomayor, And Racism

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Latina, Sessions, Kkk, Ronald Reagan, David Gregory, Jeff Sessions, Boy, Scotus, Better, Republican, Reagan, Marion Three, Ku Klux Klan, Latino, Sexism, Gross Insensitivity, Racism, Sotomayor, Confirmation, Naacp, Communist, Reverse Racism, Judiciary Committee, Tancredo, Charles Pickering, Racist, Voting Rights, Alabama, Pickering, Tom Tancredo, Un-American, Meet the Press, Chris Weigant, Sonia Sotomayor, Republicans, Nominee, Aclu, Senate, Politics News

In all the hoopla over Judge Sonia Sotomayor being nominated to the Supreme Court, there is one interesting side story that the media is largely ignor...

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Beyond Ricci: Judge Sotomayor and the Voting Rights Act

Doug Kendall | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Voting Rights, Sonia Sotomayor, Voting Rights Act, Politics News

A lion's share of debate over the nomination of Sotomayor has focused on a single ruling in a case involving a New Haven fire fighter named Frank Ricci. But Ricci is just one of many cases worthy of examination.

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Bush v. Gore Rears Its Head (Part IV): A New Check on the Court to Defend the Rule of Law

Shahid Buttar | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

The false national consensus that national security should trump constitutional protections for liberty and privacy exemplifies such collusion today.

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Get 'Em (Ready to Vote) While They're Young

Rob Richie | Posted 06.27.2009 | Home

Read More: Electoral Reform, Voter Registration Modernization, Universal Voter Registration, Voter Registration, Voting Rights, Home News

The importance of encouraging youth participation in our democracy is difficult to overstate, and it is in our interest to avoid becoming apathetic about apathy.

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The Right Fight for Progressives Over the Souter Vacancy

Doug Kendall | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, David Souter, Caperton-v-Massey, Voting Rights Act, Voting Rights, Judicial Nominations, Savana Redding, Politics News

If conservatives insist on using slogans like "judicial activism" and "legislating from the bench," then at the very least, such terms should be applied to liberal and conservative nominees consistently.

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Supreme Court To Consider Landmark Voting Rights Act

Carey Alexander | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Race, Voting Rights Act, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Preclearance, Race Relations, Politics News

Southern Republicans are bringing a case before the Supreme Court, asking for an end to Justice Department oversight of election procedures. If successful, the result could have a chilling effect on the marrow of racial equity in the United States,

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Give Me Liberty, and Give Me Death?

Rev. Lennox Yearwood | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Revolution, Senate, John Ensign, Voting Rights, Washington DC, Founding Fathers, Gun Control, Nra, Politics News

There is no excuse for Sen. John Ensign attaching an amendment to the voting act that would eliminate DC's ability to enforce necessary gun laws.

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Identity Crisis: Voter Suppression Legislation Hits Texas

Rachel Farris | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Voter Disenfranchisement, Texas Politics, Voting Rights, Voter Turnout, Black Voters, Republican-Identity-Crisis, Voter Fraud, Legislation, Republican-Ideology, Democratic Voting Rights, Voter-Fraud, Voter Supression, Elderly Voters, Elderly-Voting, Voting, Voter-Supression, Politics News

Voter fraud in Texas is not any sort of epidemic. The voter-ID bill is designed to deter thousands of indigent, disabled and elderly voters, who might not have a form of photo identification, from voting.

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Israel: On the Right Side of History

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 02.24.2009 | World

Read More: Syria, Supreme Court, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, United Arab List, Dorit Beinisch, Torture, Executive Orders, Jerusalem, Gaza, Rule of Law, Obama Executive Orders, Fatah, Barack Obama Israel, Lebanon, Hamas, The Basic Law, Civil Rights, Guantanamo Bay, Operation Cast Lead, Obama Inaugural Address, Voting Rights, Israel, Israeli Supreme Court, Israel Gaza, Jamal Zahalkeh, Kach, Balad, World News

The Israeli Supreme Court defended the rights of Israel's two Arab parties, Balad and the United Arab List, to stand for election, overturning a vote by Israel's Central Election Committee.

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World to Obama: Thanks for Giving Us Back Our America

Rebecca Novick | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

It's the immigrants who really know the fragility of liberty; how it can be won and lost, and won and lost again. For them freedom is not a parade. It's a flower in a storm.

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An Entirely Different Inauguration Day

Erik Ose | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fraudulent Inauguration, Obama Wins, Inauguration Day 2009, Obama Inauguration, Civil Rights, Voting Rights, President Obama, Age of Obama, Stolen 2000 Election, Presidential Campaign, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama 2008, Politics News, HuffPost Election Reaction, January 20 2001, Election Reaction, 2008, Inauguration, George W. Bush, Obama Presidency, Obama 2008, Obama President, Presidential Election, Text of Obama's Inauguration Speech, January 20 2009, John Roberts, Chief Justice John Roberts, Huffpost Oath of Office Call Out, Obama Oath of Office, Politics News

Eight years ago, the country was experiencing an entirely different sort of Inauguration Day. On January 20, 2001, people were outraged.

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Reports from the Polls Live Blog

Ali Savino | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Voting Problems, Voting Rights, Voting, Politics News

I'm going to be liveblogging all day on reports from the polls as they come in from local bloggers, readers, campaigns, and voting rights groups. Tell me your story in the comments.

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