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"Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill rightly claims that Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act 'forbids sorting voters by race.' That she and others want that law overturned so that so-called red states can then proceed to sort voters by race stands as another milestone in hypocrisy."
"With SCOTUS arguments scheduled to take place Oct. 15, there is considerable concern what remains of the 1965 law after its brutal evisceration in the Shelby County case will be dramatically weakened, if not legally revoked in its entirety, by the conclusion of the high court’s next term."
"Justices fundamentally hostile to the rights of voters place the court increasingly at odds with democracy itself."
"As we face mounting challenges to voting rights, the work of registering voters becomes something approaching an act of democratic resistance."
"The initiative is a significant break from decades of practice by Republican and Democratic administrations, which believed that doing so was federal overreach and ripe for abuse."
"This decision would prevent voters from challenging unfair maps and racially discriminatory voting practices not only in North Dakota, but also in the six other states under the jurisdiction of the Eighth Circuit: Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota."
"The Voting Rights Act gave teeth to the 15th Amendment’s promise that no American could be denied the right to vote because of race." Read more here: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/louisiana-voting-rights-act-race-redistricting-rcna227767
We may well see the elimination of the 11 Black-majority districts — all Democratic — in GOP-controlled Southern states 👇 Read more here: https://truthout.org/articles/the-supreme-court-asks-why-it-shouldnt-gut-the-voting-rights-act/
Native American voters and tribes urged the justices to overturn an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that stripped voters and organizations of the ability to bring cases under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — the law’s core protection against racially discriminatory voting laws.
The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways 👇 Read more here: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trump-administrations-campaign-undermine-next-election
Senator Merkley nails it!
“Rural people will have problems, women will have problems, some military personnel will have problems and some people from tribal lands will have significant issues trying to vote,” Suzy Johnson of LWV said.
The case could strike a major blow to the landmark civil rights-era law 👇 Read more here: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/27/louisiana-callais-scotus-redistricting-voting-rights-act-00532223
"The state of Texas is only 40% white, but white voters control over 73% of the state's congressional seats. It's quite obvious that Texas's effort to redistrict mid-decade, before next year's midterm elections, is racially motivated." - Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP
"We cheat ourselves if we think of Louisiana v. Callais as only, or even principally, a Supreme Court story. It’s the story of the U.S. in this time. If the court has lost its mooring, it will take the rest of us with it."
GREAT NEWS: U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco said the Legislature would have to draw a majority-Black or near-majority Black Senate district in the Montgomery area. https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/22/federal-judge-alabama-senate-map-violates-voting-rights-act/
A post from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth showed his support of a fringe evangelical Christianity that is gaining more traction in the Republican Party 👇 More: https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/08/20/whos-questioning-womens-right-to-vote/
“The notion that everyone deserves equal access to the ballot, that everyone deserves equal access to elections, that one person ought to mean one vote, and that there ought to be some measure of political equality has never really sat well with the political right in this country."
GREAT NEWS: A federal judge found the electoral map dilutes the power of Black voters 👇 Read more here: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/mississippi-supreme-court-map-violates-voting-rights-act-124793025
HEADS UP: The right-wing U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral argument in Callais v. Landry — the high-stakes Louisiana redistricting case that could upend the Voting Rights Act (VRA) — on October 15.
"A few years ago, the idea that women shouldn’t have the vote would be seen as an absurd stance, close to conspiracy theory. But in recent years, as far-right stances become more mainstream and so called 'traditional' gender roles reemerge as a cultural talking point, it feels much more dangerous."
"The conservative court has subjected the law to death by a thousand cuts over the years — and now is poised to kill it completely on its 60th birthday."
Once a fringe warning, the threat to women’s right to vote is now out in the open—and in the halls of power.
A truly frightening post from unhinged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth showed his support of a fringe evangelical Christianity that is gaining more traction in the Republican Party.
The John Lewis Voting Rights Act, reintroduced by Sen. Raphael Warnock, wouldn’t undo all the damage done by the Supreme Court. But it would renew the promise of the VRA, restoring preclearance, stopping voter purges for inactivity, and ensuring people can still seek justice in court.
Unhinged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a video espousing misogynist, right-wing views that women are subservient to men and shouldn’t be able to vote 👇
Texas Republicans' plan to carve out five new, potentially GOP leaning congressional districts threatens "millions of Texans' voting rights," warns Democratic Rep. Greg Casar.
U.S. Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, is marking the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act by reintroducing a 2007-era proposal to establish a private right of legal action for people who have been subjected to voter deception.
"The 1965 law, a rare and profound act of consensus, has been hollowed out. We cannot forget the power Dr. King saw in the right to vote."
"The bottom line: Voter suppression efforts now target Latinos, Asian Americans, and young voters, alongside Black communities."
A new report shows Black Alabamians face greater odds of losing and not regaining voting rights under state felony laws 👇
“Voting rights are preservative of all other rights,” Sen. Warnock said at a press conference announcing the bill’s reintroduction. “The democracy is the very house in which we live. It is the framework in which we get to fight for the things that we care about.” Read more here: bit.ly/4fr4083
Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock (Ga.) and Dick Durbin (Ill.) are set to reintroduce the Senate version of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2025, which would replace the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Watch here: bit.ly/44SK9uW
Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the Voting Rights Project for the ACLU, said she wasn’t surprised by the ruling given the decisions in the earlier cases 👇
"AG Pam Bondi has already turned the DOJ into a government-staffed vehicle for Trump’s political objectives. The once proud guardian of voting rights has jumped head first into voter suppression litigation and is already participating in 17 voting and election cases."
Right-wing justices Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch - in their zeal to crush voting rights - dissented Thursday from the court’s decision to halt an outlier federal appeals court ruling that would have further limited the Voting Rights Act 👇
GOP lawmakers in Texas are using a special session to attempt to lock in the party’s majority in Congress by means of weakening or eliminating Democratic districts in the state. Democrats have vowed to fight the gerrymandering moves tooth-and-nail. Watch here: thehill.com/video-clips/...
The National Urban League credits the VRA with the “true birth of American democracy.” But the government under Trump has “set fire to policies and entire departments dedicated to protecting civil and human rights, providing access to an equal education, fair housing, safe and effective healthcare."
The Black civil rights movement’s greatest legal achievement is now on a Republican Supreme Court’s chopping block 👇
Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar warns that a right-wing move to redraw Texas congressional districts will undermine democracy in the Lone Star State and beyond 👇
Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh on Wednesday paused a federal appeals court ruling that bars individuals in some states from filing lawsuits claiming discrimination based on the landmark Voting Rights Act.
Op-Ed: The California State Assembly should reject the Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8 making it harder to vote on Supreme Court and appellate justices 👇
Election clerks in both parties, already facing harassment and lawsuits over Trump’s false 2020 election claims, worry about efforts to examine voting machines and other efforts to dismantle our Democracy.
Outside New Iberia City Hall, protesters with Indivisible Acadiana gathered to honor the late Congressman John Lewis and continue his legacy of nonviolent protest. The rally was part of a nationwide effort to call attention to voting rights and broader issues of equity and justice.
“The fair map we secured led to a historic first – a Spirit Lake Nation member elected to the North Dakota legislature,” Spirit Lake Nation Chairperson Lonna Jackson-Street said about the ruling. “This decision threatens that progress and weakens our voice in state government.”
Deplorable right-wing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the iconic Voting Rights Act that prohibits practices denying Blacks, Hispanics and other racial minorities an equal right to vote 👇
"Missouri is one of 15 states that do not restore voting rights until the end of a person’s supervision post-incarceration, including the completion of probation or parole. We need to demand that Missouri legislators restore people’s right to vote who are on probation or parole."
GREAT NEWS: In a growing number of towns and cities across the U.S., 16- and 17-year-olds are gaining the right to vote 👇
The right-wing Supreme Court justices gave an ominous prelude to next term, when voting rights — another pillar of a strong democracy — will be in their crosshairs once again.
GREAT NEWS: Members of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which introduced Connecticut's voter rights law, said its provisions are greatly needed in 2025 👇
The right-wing high court’s choice to punt a key redistricting case signals trouble for the future of the Voting Rights Act 👇
In a rare decision this week, the U.S. Supreme Court postponed ruling on a Louisiana congressional redistricting case that could have implications on legal protections for the rights of minority voters across the country.
"Since the dawn of the Voting Rights Act, federal courts heard Section 2 claims brought by voters. Without this ability to sue, many, of the claims against racially discriminatory voting policies would have gone unheard, leaving in place a far more unjust and imperfect electoral process."
"While Black Americans have historically relied on the federal government to vindicate their rights when facing discrimination, Trump has moved to dismiss voting rights and civil rights cases involving police departments and close Dept of Education investigations into anti-Black discrimination."
“The Shelby decision opened the door to a full-scale attack on the right to vote that continues today,” Rep. Terri Sewell said.
New legislation in Montana is facing legal challenges from the ACLU of Montana, the Native American Rights Fund, and others, who argue it restricts Indigenous communities from participating in the state's electoral process.
Of all the red states that made it harder to vote this year, Utah takes the dishonorable top spot. Lawmakers eliminated universal mail voting, so Utah voters now must apply for an absentee ballot in order to vote by mail.
David Becker, a former DOJ attorney who now leads the Center for Election Innovation & Research, said the DOJ’s moves represent a departure from focusing on major violations of federal law. “This would be like the police department prioritizing jaywalking over murder investigations,” he said.
In the Trump administration’s lawsuit against the state board of elections over the voter rolls, hundreds of thousands of voters are at risk of disenfranchisement.
"Voting rights advocates have successfully collaborated with state lawmakers to pass the Colorado Voting Rights Act. This sweeping legislation will prohibit any actions that result in material disparities between voters of protected race, color, or language minority groups."
"States are supposed to lose representatives in the House if they infringe on voting rights. So far the Court has ignored that part of the 14th Amendment."
"The department has reversed course, abandoning much of its inherited voting rights caseload and leaving the state of Section 2 voter discrimination litigation fraught."
“Bottom line, this is attack on direct democracy,” Jen Miller from Ohio’s League of Women Voters argued. “This is an attack on local control. It’s an attempt to bully, intimidate, harass, and possibly prosecute people just because they want to take part in democracy."
"Whittier, Alaska is at the unlikely crossroads of two major currents in American politics: fighting over what it means to be born on U.S. soil and false claims by President Donald Trump and others that noncitizen voter fraud is widespread."
The Republicans who run one of Texas’ biggest counties have recruited the national GOP’s top map-drawer, as well as a leading Washington, D.C.-based anti-voting group, to ram through a new gerrymander that aims to expand their majority.
“The bill authors failed spectacularly to explain how this bill would be implemented and how it would be able to be implemented without inconveniencing a ton of voters,” said Anthony Gutierrez, director of the voting rights group Common Cause Texas.
"The SAVE Act and similar policies have been driven by mis- and disinformation about non-citizen voting. Despite extensive research showing that this occurrence is extraordinarily rare, politicians and influencers have amplified rumors."
The new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal voting and press election officials to tighten voting rules 👇
For decades, voters and organizations have successfully brought lawsuits against racially discriminatory voting rules under Section 2 of the civil rights law - but not anymore 👇
"Donald Trump has made false claims about voter fraud central to his political identity and issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order in March. Now he’s weaponizing the Justice Department to advance his voter suppression agenda."
As the nation paused over Memorial Day to honor and remember those who have served, many veterans are now facing a new battle at home 👇
"Individual voters and voting rights groups are left to litigate without the weight of the Justice Department on their side, while contending with a once-fringe legal theory that they should not be able to enforce the core of the VRA at all."
“What does that mean for the elections coming up? What is going to happen when they start bringing voting fraud suits right in the middle of an election, or even close to an election? The policy of the department is to never take steps before an election.”
"At a time of national crisis, Memorial Day reminds us to honor past sacrifices by standing up for democracy."
Volunteers with the Indivisible Kandiyohi County and the League of Women voters organized a rally this week in support of voting rights and against legislation many say will restrict voter access.
The Supreme Court may soon consider a Republican-led legal challenge that seeks to prevent states from counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day, Democracy Docket reported Wednesday 👇
"A century after the suffrage movement, the SAVE Act threatens to echo the harms of the Expatriation Act. While it’s supporters claim it will target non-citizen voters, instead it could prevent American women from voting."
"It marks a dramatic turn for the storied division, which was created during the civil rights movement and the push to end racial segregation and has sought to combat discrimination and to protect the constitutional rights in everything from voting and housing to employment, education and policing."
The plaintiffs, which include the League of Women Voters of Louisiana, NAACP Louisiana State Conference, Voice of the Experienced (VOTE), and the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, argue that the law is unclear, unnecessary and unfair.
A federal appeals court has shut down the ability of private individuals to bring Voting Rights Act lawsuits challenging election policies that discriminate based on race in several states, a major blow to the civil rights law and a dream decision for right-wing voter suppression zealots.
In a win for right-wing voter suppression zealots, a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down one of the key remaining ways of enforcing the federal Voting Rights Act in seven mainly Midwestern states.
GREAT NEWS: Colorado is now one of several states to implement state-level voting rights act 👇
GREAT NEWS: Federal judges ruled that Alabama intentionally diluted the voting strength of Black residents when it drew congressional lines, and said the state must continue using a court-ordered map that led to the election of the state's second Black congressman.
"The proof-of-citizenship requirements risk that Republicans are taking the air out of a trend sloping in their direction. Nonetheless, this push for such measures as the SAVE Act persists."
Omar Noureldin, who previously served as senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights under Biden, warned that the assault on the voting section “is doing profound and lasting damage to the protection of voting rights in the United States.”
Remember that time that the federal courts told Kris Kobach it was illegal to try to force us to show birth certificates or passports to register to vote? Now, a federal court has ruled it isn’t any more legal when Donald Trump tries to do it.
"The state's rural and oldest residents would be among the many voters who would be disenfranchised under the plan."
A judge recently blocked a key part of Trump's asinine attempt to rewrite election rules 👇
“What does that mean for the elections coming up?” one for DOJ attorney said. “What is going to happen when they start bringing voting fraud suits right in the middle of an election, or even close to an election? The policy of the department is to never take steps before an election.”
In yet another blow to civil rights under the Trump administration, the Department of Justice’s civil rights division has reassigned all managers working in the department’s voting section and suspended all active investigations being handled by the unit.
“The career managers established norms and standards and made sure that the section spoke consistently, over time, with one voice,” said a former justice department employee. “That is destroyed by gutting all the career managers.”
GREAT NEWS: A federal judge on Thursday blocked Trump’s efforts to add a proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form, a change that voting rights advocates warned would have disenfranchised millions of voters 👇
If passed into law, the SAVE Act could impede a swath of Americans from accessing the polls, but one of the largest groups of people who could be disenfranchised is married women who changed their last name 👇
Voting rights advocates in Ohio say they know one thing is for certain when it comes to legislation disenfranchising voters: If the current U.S. Congress doesn’t do it, the Republicans in the Ohio General Assembly surely will 👇 www.wvxu.org/politics/202...
The justice department’s civil rights division is shifting its focus away from its longstanding work protecting the rights of marginalized groups and will instead pivot towards Donald Trump’s priorities including hunting for noncitizen voters and protecting white people from discrimination.
The so-called SAVE Act would undermine voting rights and block many citizens from the ballot box 👇
The 'SAVE Act' purportedly aims to block noncitizens from voting, but it threatens the voting rights of millions of American women who took their husband's name 👇
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“The SAVE Act has nothing to do with election security. It’s window-dressing on voter suppression,” Rep. Thompson said.
Democrats are denouncing the legislation as a voter suppression measure, saying it would disenfranchise millions of married women 👇