Showing posts with label Voting Rights Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voting Rights Act. Show all posts
Friday, March 7, 2025

Steve Flowers: Inside the Statehouse - 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march

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  This Sunday, leaders from throughout Alabama and the entire country will commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Voting in unconstitutional districts: US Supreme Court upended decades of precedent in 2022 by allowing voters to vote with gerrymandered maps instead of fixing the congressional districts first

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  For the 2022 midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Alabama to use congressional districts that violated the law and diluted th...
Friday, September 15, 2023

That redistricting argument sounds familiar

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  Three federal judges order the Alabama Legislature to draw fair districts for Black voters.    Lawmakers drag their feet. They submit a pl...
Saturday, June 17, 2023

What the Supreme Court’s surprise voting rights decision could mean for Alabama

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  The Supreme Court surprised me.    You see, it’s become distressingly easy to predict how the nation’s high court will rule on issues.    ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Civil rights legislation sparked powerful backlash that’s still shaping American politics

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  For nearly 60 years, conservatives have been trying to gut the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the crowning achievement of the civil rights mo...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Seven years after Shelby County vs. Holder, voter suppression permeates the South

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  JoAnne Bland was only 12 when she collapsed in horror on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965. State troopers were brutali...
Saturday, November 30, 2019

The struggle for Native American voting rights

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  November is Native American Heritage Month – a fitting time to honor the resistance and resilience of Native peoples, including their fig...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh threatens Americans’ fundamental right to vote

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  Last week marked the 53rd anniversary of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). In the years since the VRA’s enactment, however, its protections hav...
Friday, April 6, 2018

Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1608: Our children are more powerful and smarter than we know

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  Our children are powerful. Our children are far more powerful than we know. They can go where we cannot go. They can do what we cannot do....
Thursday, August 10, 2017

Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1574: Through the eyes of children

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  Through the eyes of children. From the mouths of babes. We all, including children, have our perspectives. We reveal these perspectives th...
Monday, March 20, 2017

Alexandra Werner-Winslow: State legislators attack the right to protest

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  Fifty-two years ago Friday, famed civil rights judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. issued a momentous federal court ruling that prohibited Alabama ...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1552: Come with me as we share the continuing Jubilee experience!

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  Come with me as we share the Bridge Crossing Jubilee on the 52nd Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma-to-Montgomery March and the 1965 ...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

Will Tucker and Cassie Miller: Systematic voter suppression — not 'voter fraud' — is the real cause for concern

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  President Trump last week resurrected a big lie from the campaign trail, claiming that he lost the popular vote because as many as 5 milli...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1540: Jeff Sessions cannot do justice as head of the Justice Department

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  It was March of 1986. I was in Washington, D.C. before the Senate Judiciary Committee testifying against the nomination of Jefferson Beaur...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Liz Kennedy: Voter suppression laws cost Americans their voices at the polls

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  The integrity of U.S. elections depends on every eligible American being able to cast a vote that is counted. Yet this year, the first pre...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Voter suppression is real: Americans must remain vigilant

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  In 2016, Americans will not have the full protections of the Voting Rights Act during a presidential election for the first time in 50 yea...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Protecting the right to vote in the 2016 elections

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  The real measure of election integrity is that every eligible American can cast a vote that is counted. But this fundamental right is bein...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Racial and gender diversity sorely lacking in America’s courts

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  This month a group of African American voters sued Alabama under the Voting Rights Act, alleging that its system of at-large elections fo...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Sam Fulwood III: Voting rights victories are pyrrhic but worth celebrating

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  Over the past month, a set of state-level voter suppression laws have fallen like shaky dominoes on a tilted floor.   In decision after ...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1493: Is democracy dying on the vines in the United States?

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  Is democracy dying on the vines in these United States of America? There are some pervasive signs. My one vote won’t make a difference. My...