by MCDC | Jun 22, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Equal Rights, Voter Rights
Three years ago this week — on June 25, 2013 — the U.S. Supreme Court in its Shelby County v. Holder decision gutted the Voting Rights Act (VRA), a civil rights law signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 to ban racial discrimination in voting. Within minutes of...
by MCDC | Jun 15, 2016 | 2016 General Election, 2017 General Election, Action Alerts, Virginia
How Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. “With Barack Obama’s historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats...
by MCDC | May 23, 2016 | 2016 General Election, News, Virginia, Voter Rights
THE HILL The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a Republican challenge to redistricting in Virginia, leaving in place a map that could prove more favorable to Democrats. The court unanimously held that Reps. Rob Wittman and other Republicans from Virginia, including...
by MCDC | Apr 14, 2016 | 2016 General Election, News, Voter Rights
“Arizona has a history of problems with guaranteeing the rights of their citizens to vote, and with this lawsuit we hope to stop it now in time for the 2016 general election,” said Marc E. Elias, the elections lawyer for Clinton’s presidential campaign. Elias is...
by MCDC | Apr 5, 2016 | News, Voter Rights
The Supreme Court unanimously defended voting rights in a decision today that upheld the principle of one person, one vote by ruling against an effort to use to total voters instead of total population to draw up legislative districts. The case was brought by Texas...
