The Supreme Court’s ruling eviscerating Section 2 of the landmark law is only part of its project.
1965 Voting Rights Act
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Keep Hope Alive: Reflections on Jesse Jackson
The late civil rights leader who died this week built a multiracial, multifaith coalition rooted in shared economic and democratic aspirations.
Posted inProtecting the Vote
The Court v. The Voters
Joshua Douglas’s sterling new book examines the most important Supreme Court cases on voting rights in the last 50 years and suggests ways we can correct this “hard turn toward anti-democracy.”
Posted inPolitical Animal
Are You Surprised That Georgia is Going Back to Jim Crow Tactics?
Threatened with the prospect of a black woman as governor, Georgia Republicans are going to work to disenfranchise citizens.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The GOP Death Spiral
Deval Patrick saw this coming. Back in August 2006, the former Clinton Administration official, then running to become the first African-American governor of Massachusetts, denounced the right wing’s delegitimization of public service, and the need for the Democratic Party to forcefully call out and push back against this sort of delegitimization: I thought about Patrick’s […]
Posted inPolitical Animal
America Coming Together
In the name of stopping Donald Trump, will Mitt Romney formally endorse Hillary Clinton? The prospect of a Romney endorsement of the Democratic nominee should not be considered far-fetched. The 2012 Republican nominee surely must know that it might not be sufficient for him to denounce the Donald; if he seriously wants to convince those […]
