#voting-rights-act

#voting-rights-act

ALABAMA - The U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the continued importance of the Voting Rights Act today in Allen v. Milligan by upholding a lower court's unanimous decision that Alabama's state congressional map discriminated against Black voters.In 2021, the Alabama state legislature produced new congressional maps which only allowed one Black majority district within the state's Black Belt, an 18-county region marked by historic discrimination and socioeconomic struggles.

The books are piling up again.The physical ones on the bedside table; the library queue; the e-bookshelves on which reside the novels impulse-purchased from bed, begun and then forgotten in one insomniac night.My eyes, always, bigger than my attention span.I'm contemplating the year's midway point, my book-a-week commitment, the number of pages between here and 26.

Evan Milligan, center, plaintiff in an Alabama redistricting case, speaks following Supreme Court oral arguments on Oct. 4, 2022.The court on Thursday ruled in favor of Milligan in the case, ordering the creation of a second Alabama congressional district with a large Black population.Patrick Semansky/AP MONTGOMERY, Ala.

Next year, the 2024 presidential election season begins in earnest, and with it, our profession's attempt to make sense of who and where we are as a country.I've gotten way into meditating during the pandemic, and so I offer this mantra on repeat to my colleagues to help guide our reporting over the next two years: Vox populi, vox dei, which is Latin, not Sanskrit, for "The voice of the people is the voice of God."

Far right Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is attempting to bar federal monitors from being able to enter polling places in Florida to ensure federal election laws are being followed in some of the state's most Democratic-leaning counties, saying that only his administration's supposed election monitors will be allowed in.

Maj. Gamaliel Turner was more than upset.Assigned by the Pentagon to the Naval base at Port Hueneme, California, Turner had called his hometown registrar in Columbus, Georgia, to find out about his missing absentee ballot.The soldier's ballot wasn't missing.They hadn't sent the ballot because, he was told, "Mr.

- NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) October 3, 2022 * This is probably a drop in the bucket for her, but Kim Kardashian has been ordered to pay a $1.3 million fine for failing to disclose what she was paid for promoting crypto currency-and that's a violation of SEC rules, Kim! * And finally, loving this new Halloween sequel!The Supreme Court began its new term today.The fate of affirmative action programs in college admissions, a provision of the Voting Rights Act and election law are in the hands of a court that has taken a sustained and dramatic turn to the right.

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether a congressional voting district in South Carolina should be restored after a lower court struck it down as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.A unanimous three-judge panel of the Federal District Court in Columbia, S.C., ruled in January that the state's First Congressional District, drawn after the 2020 census, violated the Constitution by making race the predominant factor.

On Tuesday, Virginia State Senator Jennifer McClellan won a special election for the state's 4th Congressional district, becoming the first Black woman to represent the state in Congress.She beat conservative pastor Leon Benjamin to fill a seat left vacant by Donald McEachin, who died of colorectal cancer in November of 2022.

President Joe Biden made a historical pilgrimage Sunday to "America's freedom church" to mark Martin Luther King's birthday, saying democracy was at a perilous moment and that the civil rights leader's life and legacy "show us the way and we should pay attention."As the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday morning sermon at King's Ebenezer Baptist Church, Biden cited the telling question that King himself once asked of the nation.

WILMINGTON, Del.President Joe Biden made a historical pilgrimage Sunday to America's freedom church to mark Martin Luther King's birthday, saying democracy was at a perilous moment and that the civil rights leader's life and legacy "show us the way and we should pay attention.As the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday morning sermon at King's Ebenezer Baptist Church, Biden cited the telling question that King himself once asked of the nation.

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp speaks to supporters at a campaign stop in Marietta, Ga., on Nov. 3.Kemp emphasized how he kept businesses open during the pandemic despite criticism from Democrats and health experts."Who was fighting for you then when the political winds were blowing a different way?" he said.