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Analysis by Ronald Brownstein By the standards Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have set for federal action on voting rights, the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution — two pillars of the post-Civil War effort to ensure equality for all Americans — would never have become law. Every Democrat in Congress at the time voted against both the 14th Amendment, which sought to guarantee all Americans (including the freed slaves) equal treatment under the law, and the 15th Amendment (which attempted to ensure the freed slaves the right to vote). Yet, despite that opposition,...

Voting rights: What Manchin and Sinema can learn from the Lincoln Republicans CNN 15 hrs ago Analysis by Ronald Brownstein © Hulton/Archive/Getty Images 377869 16: (FILE PHOTO) A photographic portrait is displayed showing Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. Retired physician and medical historian, Norbert Hirschhorn wrote a study that suggests Lincoln''s use of a medication in the form of a blue pill for depression contained enough mercury to cause uncontrollable bouts of anger in the President and could have eventually killed him had he not stopped ...

WASHINGTON — Qualified immunity has entered the popular lexicon in the last few years, especially since the murder of George Floyd in 2020, as the public has become more aware of allegations of police abusing people of color and how difficult it is to punish officers for violating civil rights. But many people don’t understand the judicial doctrine or why officers are largely held immune for what they do on duty. Curious? Here’s a quick primer. What is qualified immunity? First off, it is important to know that qualified immunity is not a law. It is a judicial doctrine set by the Supre...

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Ku Klux Klan Act.  Thompson is chair of the House Homeland Security Committee and a long-serving — and the only — African American Mississippi Congressperson. Thompson filed the complaint in his personal capacity. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is representing him in the suit, with the law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll. “It should surprise nobody that an anti-Klan statute can be used against the white people who attacked the Capitol, because the Klan itself is just the fairly normal white response to losing political power to a multiracial c...