The state Senate on Wednesday agreed to restore voting rights to four people who have completed their prison sentences and ...
Miriam Seifter and Adam Sopko have posted this essay to SSRN, which will be published as part of a symposium held by the Illinois Law Review. As a participant in this symposium, I had the opportunity ...
Despite an uphill battle, Democrats are pushing again for passage of a voting rights bill named after the late civil rights ...
The organizations claim ‘extreme’ ban enacted last month is unconstitutional attack on voters A group of Alabama civil rights and voting rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit against ...
A group of homeless people in a small Oregon city challenged local laws banning sleeping in public. The case has broad ...
Voting in Michigan will be easier for many people this fall than it was four years ago. There will be nine days of early voting. All mail ballots will have prepaid return postage. And every ...
Mississippi has a long history of voter suppression. An 1890 rule that permanently strips people convicted of certain crimes of their right to vote remains in the state’s constitution. This practice, ...
Charles Caldwell was never meant to have a voice. Mississippi’s White ruling class made sure of it. He was part of Mississippi’s silenced majority in 1860 — 436,600 enslaved people to 354,000 White ...
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There were just shy of 2,067,000 total registered for those primaries. As of March 26, only 19 pre-Election Day ballots had been cast in the Republican primary runoff election.
STAMFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Political dignitaries, family and friends remembered former U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut at his funeral on Friday. Services were held at the Congregation ...
Kartik Naik (right) and Babulal Naik, seen here in their room in Kerala’s Ernakulam, are migrants from Odisha’s Ganjam. Kartik says he cannot afford the trip back home to vote, while for ...