by Press | Jun 11, 2019 | Newsclips
The head of The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Attorney Kristin Clarke breaks down the many ways Republicans in State and Federal Governments and on the Supreme Court are attacking the hard-fought right to vote.
by Press | Jun 11, 2019 | Newsclips
Successful voter registration drives among Blacks have motivated Tennessee lawmaker to pass bill with onerous fines for simple registration mistakes, which will cause voters to think twice about registering. We speak to Ezra Rosenberg of the Voting Rights Project at...
by Press | Jun 6, 2019 | Newsclips
Thousands of Pennsylvanians have their votes rejected every year — in violation of their constitutional rights — because the commonwealth’s tight deadlines for absentee ballots are far more restrictive than those of other states, advocates argued Wednesday before a...
by Press | Jun 4, 2019 | Newsclips
Tequila Johnson lists off laundromats, nightclubs and churches. Those are the places her team of 150 volunteers visited during the midterm elections last year, registering black voters across Tennessee. In the end, she estimates The Equity Alliance, where she is...
by Press | Jun 3, 2019 | Newsclips
A rural, majority African American county in Georgia that backed off a contentious plan to close most of its voting locations before last year’s election is now evaluating the costs of repairing its precincts. The revived review of voting locations raised...
by Press | May 31, 2019 | Newsclips
Courts cannot incarcerate people based solely on inability to pay court-imposed fines. The U.S. Constitution and Oklahoma Constitution prohibit jailing a person without first determining whether their failure to pay is willful.
