by Press | Aug 1, 2016 | Newsclips
Across the country, states have implemented discriminatory laws aimed at suppressing the Black vote. Often they are packaged as measures needed to prevent voter fraud, despite the lack of evidence that any such fraud exists. These tactics have one specific...
by Press | Aug 1, 2016 | Newsclips
Following the 5-4 Supreme Court decision three years ago, Shelby County v. Holder, which found the preclearance clause of the 1965 Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, barriers to minority voting have popped up like mushrooms around the U.S., according to...
by Press | Aug 1, 2016 | Newsclips
Jim Crow laws have been off the books for years, but that hasn’t stopped individual states and cities from coming up with new ways to depress minority voter turnout. Last week, for instance, a U.S. appeals court struck down a North Carolina voter ID law that it...
by Press | Aug 1, 2016 | Newsclips
The request by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law came as part of a lawsuit it filed over the way the county ran its troubled March 22 presidential primary election. It argues countless Arizona voters were disenfranchised by the cutting of polling...
by Press | Jul 31, 2016 | Newsclips
Kristen Clarke, the president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a leading voting-rights advocacy group, said that before the Supreme Court’s Shelby County ruling, discriminatory laws and procedures had been blocked by the preclearance provisions....
by Press | Jul 29, 2016 | Newsclips
At-large elections are a problem for people of color because white Texans comprise the majority of the voting population here, making it difficult for non-white Texans to win.
