Voting Rights Act

Janai Nelson, a lawyer for the NAACP, argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it is necessary to have a second majority-black district in Louisiana because “white Democrats were not voting for black candidates whether they Democrats or not.”

On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, under the leadership of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, reaffirmed its commitment to enforcing federal voting laws and protecting ballot access for all Americans.

A federal court on Tuesday ruled to strike down redistricting maps signed into law by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) in July after the maps failed to create a second majority-black congressional district. 

The Census Bureau in 2020 overcounted populations in Democrat states and undercounted in Republican states, resulting in Democrat Party wins in reapportionment and the Electoral College.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) during a House hearing on Thursday dragged Alabama Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban and basketball executive Jerry West for lobbying for a Democrat election reform bill.

Republicans are on the the side of Martin Luther King, while Biden and Democrats are on the side of George Wallace, Rep. Drew Ferguson said.

Georgia asked a federal court on Wednesday to dismiss the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit that alleges the state’s 2021 Election Integrity Act (SB 202) violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination.

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) believes minorities will lose their ability to vote for “the change that we need” if the filibuster remains in place, making the remarks after the Supreme Court’s Thursday decision to uphold Arizona’s law banning ballot harvesting and out-of-precinct voting.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) confronted Senate Judiciary Committee chair Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) over claims that Republicans had become the party of “Jim Crow” because of their support for laws requiring voter ID and other anti-fraud protections.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” accused President Joe Biden of playing “the race card continuously in such a hypocritical way.”

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich recalled how Jimmy Carter warned of fraud risks associated with ballot harvesting and mail-in voting.

MSNBC political analyst Fernand Amandi predicted Thursday on “Deadline” that Senate Democrats will abandon the “racist” filibuster to pass the sweeping voting rights bill passed by the House of Representatives today.

“Phony claims of voter suppression should never trump legitimate voter integrity measures,” Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper said in the press release announcing its role in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee.

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI)  stated that the fight for voting equality isn’t over and urged the Senate to hold a vote on H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2020. Transcript as Follows: “Good

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) declared Thursday that he supports former President Barack Obama’s proposal to “eliminate the filibuster” to allow Democrats to push through changes to the nation’s election laws.

Former President Barack Obama used his eulogy at the funeral of Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) to call for an end to the Senate filibuster to pass Democrats’ new legislation on voting reform.

Joe Biden is calling on Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump to extend the Voting Rights Act if they are serious about honoring the legacy of John Lewis.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) used a Wednesday hearing to suggest that if Voter ID is a tax on voting rights, then firearm licensing is a tax on Second Amendment rights.

The Supreme Court decided Department of Commerce v. New York, regarding the Trump Administration’s effort to restore to the decennial census the simple question of whether a person is a citizen of the United States.

Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris promised Tuesday to force states and localities to answer to the Department of Justice before pro-life laws can take effect.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether the 2020 census can ask every person in this country whether they are an American citizen, a question with implications for legislative redistricting, voting rights, and presidential politics.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton suggested Sunday that voter suppression in Wisconsin contributed to her 2016 election defeat, claiming voters were “turned away” from the polls due to their skin color. 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is back as the most powerful woman in the House of Representatives, but as a more diverse and far left 116th Congress takes shape,it is clear minorities will want to use their newfound status to get appointed to important committees and be at the table on a wide range of policy issues.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) made a mistake recently when he announced that he wouldn’t vote to confirm Tom Farr for a federal district court slot in North Carolina. This was after Scott voted in favor of cloture for Farr, which

Late last month, my office and the American people received great news from the White House: our petition to reinstate the citizenship question in the decennial 2020 Census was approved. We will once again get a more accurate count of how many American citizens reside in our country.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has proven himself to be one of President Trump’s greatest allies in the quest for economic nationalism with his defiance of the Washington, D.C., political establishment in deciding to add the citizenship question to the 2020 Census.

RALEIGH, North Carolina — The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights took in lopsided testimony from experts and legal practitioners Friday to gauge the status of minority ballot access ahead of the 2018 midterms and beyond.

Democrats fear the Trump Administration’s re-reinstatement of citizenship questions on the 2020 U.S. Census will cost California a Congressional seat and billions in funding.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is trying to convince the Census Bureau to add a question about citizenship status to 2020 census forms, according to a DOJ letter released Friday.

The six-year saga surrounding Texas’ voter ID law added a new chapter Wednesday evening when a federal judge again ruled the law discriminatory against minorities.

As municipalities in deep-blue Maryland continue to grant legal and illegal aliens access to the ballot box, one leftist is pushing for a larger movement to combat the “mass disenfranchisement” of non-U.S. citizens in the Trump era.

The U.S. Supreme Court made headlines Monday with its acceptance of a case that argues whether legislative maps can be ruled unconstitutional simply due to the partisan advantages that may be gained from their designs. Some election law experts contend the matter is a means to an end in transferring redistricting powers—commonly held in legislative branches—to commissions not directly answerable to the electorate.

President Donald Trump kept the threat of voter fraud on the front pages both before and after the 2016 Election. Although ballots have long since been counted, cases of illegal voting and other election law violations continue to surface in the aftermath.

The panel of judges presiding over the Texas redistricting case has ordered the Lone Star State to a redistricting trial on July 10. The trial will be over plans passed in June 2013. The trial is being expedited because of the 2018 election deadlines.

About two dozen residents of the coastal Southern California city of Oceanside protested outside City Hall on Wednesday afternoon to oppose an effort to impose what they call a racist voting system on their city.

Two federal judges have ruled that Texas lawmakers drew congressional maps to discriminate against minority voters, especially Hispanics. The dissenting judge countered that the ruling is “fatally infected, from start to finish, with the misunderstanding that race, rather than partisan advantage,” was the intent behind the 2011 maps.