The state of Texas is in the midst of an extraordinary losing streak in federal courts over the way it conducts elections. It is hoping the Supreme Court will come to the rescue. In the past couple of weeks, federal ...

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Sometimes the most important stuff in Supreme Court opinions is hidden in the footnotes. In Monday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down two North Carolina congressional districts as unconstitutionally influenced by race, the majority buried a doozy, a potentially powerful new ...

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WASHINGTON — The big win for voting rights activists at the Supreme Court last week came with an equally big asterisk, and provided new reason for jittery liberals and civil rights groups to continue to fret about Chief Justice John ...

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Last November, 6.1 million adults did not vote, not because of a lack of interest, but because they were disqualified due to a felony conviction. Some 75% of the adults were no longer under the supervision of the correction system. ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton kicked off a series of speeches on Monday with a call to combat what she called an “assault on voting rights.” She spent most of her 45-minute talk to about 1,000 ...

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WASHINGTON — Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind? Addressing two pivotal legal issues, one on affirmative action and a second on voting rights, a divided U.S. Supreme Court is poised to ...

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U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding voting and free speech rights are under consideration again by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, whose chairman believes both rights are threatened. The two topics have been discussed by the committee previously this year, ...

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Attorney General Eric Holder vowed last week to fully enforce civil rights protections in next year’s elections amid a flurry of activity by states to redraw political boundaries and impose requirements that could reduce voting by minorities who enthusiastically supported ...

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U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit Voting Rights Expulsion of Elected Official Monserrate v. New York State Senate 10-0604-cv Appealed from the Southern District of New York Background: Hiram Monserrate, who was expelled from the New York State Senate, along ...

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