#voting-rights

#voting-rights

The general principle is that voting rights are based on citizenship and each country makes its own rules. When electoral rights are granted to non-nationals, these are usually limited to local elections and do not extend to national ones. So neither EU nationals or non-EU citizens are able to vote for example in French presidential elections or German parliamentary elections, unless of course they have taken citizenship in those countries.

A federal court struck down Texas' new gerrymander on Tuesday, in an extraordinary rebuke to Republicans who sought to hand the GOP five additional seats in the House of Representatives. The 160-page ruling -authored by Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, a conservative Donald Trump nominee-scorched the scheme as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, declaring that the Legislature "intentionally drew district lines" to discriminate against Black and Hispanic Texans.

All three of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices who sought reelection Tuesday will get another term, ensuring Democratic jurists keep their majority on the presidential battleground state's highest court - one at the center of pivotal fights over voting rights, redistricting and elections. The result shapes the makeup of the seven-member court through the next presidential election in 2028. The three justices had been elected as Democrats, and voters were deciding whether to extend the court's Democratic majority.

Southern Leadership for Voter Engagement ( SOLVE) is a network housed at Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) consisting of more than 300 non-partisan grassroots voting rights groups focused on achieving fair and equitable access to the ballot. Our members are educating voters about what's at stake in local elections and how to access the ballot in a region with modern-day barriers to the ballot that disproportionately harm Black, Latino, Asian and Native American voters, as well as those with disabilities.

Imagine an election whose outcome doesn't just determine the next two years, but the next decade. One where not just voting rights, reproductive rights, and civil rights - but democracy itself - is on the line, and candidates' rulings have implications for the next several election cycles, and the state's once-in-a-decade census and redistricting. One with notoriously low turnout, but historically high stakes.

* Law school applications up 33 percent. Or " nearly half" as some lawyers would say. [ Reuters] * Supreme Court's voting rights argument reveals justices more than willing to roll back the law to 1950s. [ Bloomberg Law News] * Michigan State Title IX investigators may have collaborated with university lawyers. [ State News] * The lawyer-to-blacksmith pipeline is alive and well. [ CBS News] * Trump DOJ wastes tons of taxpayer money on frivolous cases, but the costs to the accused matter almost as much winning. [ NPR]

S4 Capital Plc ( (GB:SFOR) ) just unveiled an update. S4 Capital Plc announced its total voting rights and capital structure, consisting of 639,587,561 ordinary shares and 1 B ordinary share. This information is crucial for shareholders to determine their interests under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules, impacting how they manage their investments in the company. The most recent analyst rating on (GB:SFOR) stock is a Hold with a £21.50 price target.

I'm still under house arrest, confined to a bathroom right now.

"We're doing it in reaction to that act. We're doing it mindful of our higher angels, and better angels. We're doing it mindful that we want to model better behavior, as we've been doing for 15 years in the state of California," Newsom said, referring to the state's popular independent redistricting commission.

Of course the Secretary thinks that women should have the right to vote," Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson told reporters on Thursday. "I'm not going to litigate every single aspect of what he may or may not believe in a certain video....

The Voting Rights Act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, aiming to protect the right to vote and combat voter suppression efforts, especially against Black voters.

The British Overseas Voters Forum (BOVF) will hold its inaugural meeting in Europe at 6pm on September 9th, 2025 at the All Saints' Anglican Church in Milan.

Elon Musk raised concerns about the activist shareholders threatening his control at Tesla, indicating that they may not prioritize the company's future.

Figma announced it will allow existing shareholders to sell nearly double the shares it plans to offer in its IPO, expressing confidence in demand.

The Trump administration has reportedly embarked on an unprecedented effort to collect data on voters across the U.S. and physically examine election equipment in states.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was set to start at first base and bat fifth for the American League in the Major League Baseball all-star game, anchoring a powerful batting order.