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Posted on On July 1, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in Brnovich v Democratic National Committee, 19-1257. The issues were two Arizona election laws that made it more difficult for certain kinds of voters to vote. A federal lawsuit was filed to overturn the two laws, on the grounds that they had a disparate effect on certain racial and ethnic minorities. One of the laws banned most people from delivering voted postal ballots to the post office or to an election administration center. Evidence strongly showed that law had a particular severe burden on Native Americans living i...

Supreme Court limits reach of Voting Rights Act Supreme Court ruling on voting rights President Joe Biden said he was deeply disappointed by the Supreme Court's ruling to uphold a pair of Arizona elections laws. NEW YORK - The two Arizona laws that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Thursday weren't all that significant but the justices' decision certainly was, with the six-member conservative majority limiting the reach of the Voting Rights Act just as Republican lawmakers around the country put forward bills targeting minorities who form the Democratic party's voter base. The decision, writt...

The Biggest Supreme-Court Decisions Coming This Term Intelligencer 1 hr ago Ed Kilgore © Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The next term could be huge. But the current term has its own important mysteries. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The biggest Supreme Court news of late involves cases it has teed up for the next term; starting in October, the Court will tackle the hot-button issues of abortion, guns, and possibly affirmative action. But the current term could produce some bombshells as well. There are still 23 cases on the docket...

States may be laboratories of democracy in many ways, but not where it matters most in protecting voting rights.

Those whom the Gods would destroy, the old saying goes, they first make mad. But it wasn’t the Gods who drove me to madness and destruction. It was me, writes Horatio Clare Those whom the Gods would destroy, the old saying goes, they first make mad. But it wasn’t the Gods who drove me to madness and destruction. It was me. Two years ago, at the age of 45, I had a catastrophic breakdown. I believed I was in contact with aliens.  I was going to marry Kylie Minogue. I rolled my car down a hill and ended up naked on the roof of someone else’s. I was sectioned and detained in a mental hospi...