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By Bobby Harrison Apr 19, 2021 8:15 AM Unlike many other state legislatures, the Mississippi Legislature did not pass bills during the 2021 session that would make it more difficult to vote. But the Mississippi Legislature also did not pass any bills that would make it easier to vote despite Mississippi being one of only seven states that do not allow no excuse early voting or no excuse voting by mail. The Mississippi Legislature essentially maintained the status quo in terms of voter a...

DOJ Civil Rights Alums Back Kristen Clarke Ahead Of Ugly Confirmation Battle More than 80 former officials are supporting the nomination of Kristen Clarke, a longtime civil rights lawyer who would be the first woman confirmed to the job. More than 80 former Justice Department civil rights officials are backing the nomination of Kristen Clarke to head the storied Civil Rights Division, a key role that will shape the Biden administration’s agenda on issues like policing and voting rights in the...

Bruce Adelson is a Maryland-based attorney and elections law expert who helped advise Arizona’s citizen redistricting panel. The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Panel plans to interview him Thursday. (Screenshot) Adelson was a top adviser for a similar process in Arizona that was ultimately decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the only one of seven candidates to be offered an interview by the 13-member group that was created by voters in 2018....

Steven Wright’s ‘The Coyotes of Carthage’ depicts realities of race, money and politics “It’s always such a great honor to teach such smart students, especially at the University of Wisconsin,” Steven Wright says. “They’re smart and they’re hardworking and they really love learning.” In August, USA Today published Two friends texted the list to Steven Wright, a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and lecturer in ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 are probably two of the most important—and successful—pieces of legislation ever passed by Congress.

Biden's pick to be the new head of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Kristen Clarke, has made troubling comments.

The Census Bureau has announced that an executive order issued by Joe Biden means that data in the 2020 US Census will exclude information on citizenship and immigration. The agency has paused work on a project initiated by former US President, Donald Trump, to gather data on US immigration status.   Amid attempts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the Census count, the Trump administration sought to add a US citizenship question to the decennial Census. The move was blocked by the Suprem...

Sarah L. Voisin / The Washington Post via Getty Images Originally published on January 22, 2021 6:03 pm The U.S. Census Bureau has stopped working on a Trump administration-initiated project to produce citizenship data that could have politically benefited Republicans when voting districts are redrawn. Citing President Bidens executive order that revoked President Donald Trumps directive for federal agencies to share their citizenship records, the bureau updated its website Friday with a ...

Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images Legal fights over the use of census data brought protesters to the Supreme Court in 2019. Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images The U.S. Census Bureau has stopped working on a Trump administration-initiated project to produce citizenship data that could have politically benefited Republicans when voting distr...

Bannon Wants To Cheat, But Doesn’t Know How Votes Are Counted Photo by Nordiske Mediedager/ CC BY-SA 2.0 This article was produced by of the Independent Media Institute. One of President Trumps most loyal propagandists is predicting that Trump will claim victory on election night as soon as he is ahead among Election Day voters. But that scenario is based on a misconception of how all ballots are counted and the early returns are compiled, according to election and legal ...