by Ian Weiner | May 17, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) called for a bipartisan reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act in a letter to congressional leaders on Monday. The following is a statement from Jon Greenbaum, chief counsel...
by Ian Weiner | May 11, 2021 | Press Releases
(Phoenix, Ariz.) – The Arizona State Legislature passed SB 1485 Tuesday, a bill that requires county election officials to unnecessarily purge tens of thousands of eligible voters from the Permanent Early Voter List (PEVL), which is used to automatically mail...
by Ian Weiner | Apr 6, 2021 | Blog
On April 4, 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life was cut short by a racist’s bullet. Though his death shocked the nation and will forever reverberate throughout our republic, the fruits of his righteous labor and those of countless others remain...
by Don Owens | Apr 2, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Friday that the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB draft will no longer take place in the state of Georgia after the state recently passed legislation designed to disenfranchise voters....
by Don Owens | Mar 7, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – On the 56-year mark of Alabama’s brutal Bloody Sunday attack on Black communities, their allies, and democracy itself, President Joe Biden released recorded remarks this morning calling for Senate passage of the national Lawyers’...
