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(JTA) Days after calling for a rally organizer to remove three Jewish advocacy groups from participating in a rally due to their Zionist beliefs, Sunrise DC, the Washington, D.C. affiliate

A recent Facebook post from an affiliate of the conservative Heritage Foundation accuses Senate Democrats of mounting a crusade against election integrity.

At one time, the protection of voting rights was a bipartisan issue. It isnt any more.

The Supreme Court in 2013 struck down a key section of the Voting Rights Act, eliminating the Justice Departments power to screen proposed changes to the election procedures in states

Though it does -- it also should be said that the suggestions are really just the lowest hanging fruit, when it comes to making participatory remarks easier, simple, common sense provisions. instituting them may turn takes away -- a pretty dangerous tool for republican politicians across the country, who weve seen this last year and potentially use the rules around election administration voting as a means of maybe keeping certain voters out, or retaining certain kind of powers for later in clos...

Election system they did. that went on to perpetuity. it was intended to be temporary. in 2013, the u.s. supreme court said, history changes. we cant keep pretending like its 1965. for the last eight years, we have not had that provision. the john lewis voting right would have that provision to have the justice department make any approval to any changes. by the way, that would have been the trump justice department and anything like that. yes, we can get to a solution. the problem is, i admonis...

/PRNewswire/ -- Business for Voting Rights, a group of more than 220 companies of all sizes and sectors across America, is calling on the Senate to pass the...

Agree with a b stoddard, this is exactly how its going to be done. she describes it perfectly. on the voting right, this is a next system shull threat to our democracy. if we lose our democracy, we lose everything. so we have to pass this bill. and you can carve out and say for elections that this is our democracy. we can carve that out and past that with 51 votes. or you can do what im talking about, which would restore the filibuster to what it was. which is something that is rare when the min...

FAIRMONT — After Congress failed to pass the For the People Act earlier this year, several West Virginia figures came together to back a piece of compromised legislation, including U.S.

Won by 9 points in our state to say that we have had a safe and secure election. she was pretty quickly removed from her position. shes a gubernatorial appointee. people are ready to fight. we know that because we lost the protection of the voting rights act preclearance provision. the lost of those protections and we are going to do everything we can to support the efforts this wonderful congresswoman and others in congress who are fighting to make sure voting right protection are put in place....