Tag: voting rights
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to freeze block on USPS mail...
North Carolina and Alabama are due to start mailing ballots this week, and the justices have set a deadline of their own.
New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About...
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
Thousands rally at Lincoln Memorial to defend voting rights
Civil rights leaders say this is the first march since the Supreme Court gutted a core Voting Rights Act protection.
Supreme Court lets Trump’s mail ballot order advance, calls states’ challenge...
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a solo dissent that the ruling needlessly injects chaos into an election two months away.
The Postal Service issued its mail ballot rule on Friday night...
Judge Indira Talwani has given the government until 8 a.m. Tuesday to respond, or take a restraining order that stops the rule reaching the Federal Register on Wednesday.
Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters
To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So far, the effort has produced meager results.
James Talarico Accused Ken Paxton of Voter Fraud. His Own Voter...
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune’s review of the Democratic Senate candidate’s residency records found that he may have voted in up to five elections using an address where he no longer lived.
How Anti-Worker Lawmakers Are Trying to Muzzle Voters
Missouri voters overturned a right-to-work law at the ballot box in 2018. In August they decide whether to make citizen-led referendums far harder to use.
GOP tucks $10 billion for voting restrictions into party-line Pentagon funding...
The measure advanced on a near party-line vote just before lawmakers left Washington for a lengthy summer recess.
Trump removes entire election commission months before midterms
The bipartisan agency responsible for voting-system certification and federal election guidance has been left without a single commissioner as the November elections approach.
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to freeze block on USPS mail ballot rule
North Carolina and Alabama are due to start mailing ballots this week, and the justices have set a deadline of their own.
Interfaith leaders say they were ‘misled’ into attending event with far-right Hindu leader
Mohan Bhagwat’s appearance at Madison Square Garden was the latest in an influence operation conducted by the RSS and its allies in the U.S.
EPA approves forever chemical herbicide its own review calls a likely carcinogen
Three advocacy groups are suing to block the pesticide, arguing it also threatens four endangered fish species.