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In any fair reading of the Voting Rights Act, this argument is an easy loser, but we’ll see, i don’t count anything out these days.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
If Supreme Court adopts this theory, voters would have their rights further eroded by a neutering of state courts' ability to be more protective of voters than federal courts.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If Justice Thomas was right that Section 2 was never intended to apply to redistricting, Congress certainly seemed to think otherwise every time it renewed Voting Right Act and tweaked the redistricting standards.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Voting Right Act's not like the court saying,' You can't have the rainbow coalition,' would affect a lot of districts and would overturn existing understandings, i think there's just an uncertainty about Voting Right Act.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is hard to overstate how dangerous Bannon's words and actions are, steve Bannon's creating an army of duped people who will go into positions helping to run elections with the false understanding that the 2020 election was stolen. Who knows what such people are capable of doing when in charge of running polling places or counting votes.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They're no longer really democratic, although they still purportedly hold elections. And now three of the four largest democracies in the world -- India, Brazil, United States -- have been governed by autocrats in recent years.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is incredibly dangerous to support people for office who do not accept the legitimacy of the 2020 election. It suggests that they might be willing to bend or break the rules when it comes to running elections and counting votes in the future, someone who claims falsely that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump lacks credibility and can not be trusted to run a fair election.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
No, Roe v. Wade was not overruled tonight, but the ease with which Texas purported to bulldoze the Court's abortion jurisprudence tells you all you need to know about the right to choose before this Court.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Whichever way congress would go in trying to amend Voting Rights Advancement Act and reestablish some form of preclearance, it's going to have a Supreme Court where at least some members are going to be extremely skeptical of congressional power in this area.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Supreme Court has taken away all the major available tools for going after voting restrictions.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is why they want to delay certification, because delaying certification could be a predicate to arguing that the state didn't make a choice, and that the legislature should step in.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Every day that passes makes it legally and politically less likely that President Donald Trump can pull off this crazy attempt to subvert the will of the people, the system is kind of on autopilot.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Given the tremendous pressure of the pandemic and an election than many voters viewed as existential, election administrators overall did a superb job conducting the election and counting the ballots, without their professionalism, Trump's unsupported allegations of voter fraud would be accepted by more people, because administrative error often looks like cheating to those on the losing end of an election.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The attorney general of the United States should not be spreading disinformation about voting.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When the President says that North Carolina's going to be fraudulent, that North Carolina's going to be rigged, he's speaking with absolutely no credibility. There's no evidence of this. There's no evidence that the states that vote all by mail have larger rates of fraudulent balloting. In fact, fraudulent balloting is rare in all states in the United States.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Judicial Watch settlement provided no evidence of fraud whatsoever.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is real potential for voter confusion, with new polling places, new timings, and new machines, nobody wants to be the next Iowa. Ideally you would try these changes in an election that has a lower status.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The more complicated problem would arise if ballots have already been printed, and people would have started voting. There, the Electoral College would come into play, and electors from the party would be expected to vote for the replacement nominee.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
He could nominate a more liberal candidate who would have no real chance of getting through a Republican Senate - in which case this would become a salient political issue in 2016.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
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