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Appeals Court Overturns Mississippi’s Lifetime Ban on Voting for Former Felons
A federal appeals court said that barring people convicted of certain felonies from voting pointlessly denied them access to “the democratic core of American citizenship.”
Voting by Formerly Imprisoned in Tennessee, Already Hard, Gets Harder
Tennessee has the nation’s second highest number of residents who remain disenfranchised because of past felony convictions.
Utah Supreme Court to Hear Arguments Over G.O.P. Map Splitting Salt Lake County
The Utah Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether a congressional map drawn to dilute Democratic votes is subject to judicial review, or a political...
Supreme Court Gives the Voting Rights Act a Tenuous New Lease on Life
The main remaining power of the landmark 1965 law, over racial bias in political mapmaking, gets an unexpected buttressing from a court that had been...
How to Police Gerrymanders? Some Judges Say the Courts Can’t.
A North Carolina court, following the lead of the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled that courts don’t have the ability to determine if a political map...
North Carolina’s Supreme Court Reverses Vote in Gerrymandering Case
When it had a Democratic majority last year, the North Carolina Supreme Court voided the state’s legislative and congressional maps as illegal gerrymanders. Now the...
If Tennessee’s Legislature Looks Broken, It’s Not Alone
State legislatures around the country — plagued by partisan division, uncompetitive races and gerrymandering — reflect the current pressures on democracy.
Virginia Rolls Back Voting Rights for Ex-Felons, Bucking Shaky Bipartisan Trend
State after state has eased restrictions on voting for former felons in recent years. But Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s reversal suggests growing wariness on the right.
In Mississippi’s Capital, Old Racial Divides Take New Forms
A plan by Republican lawmakers to set up a new court system served by a state-run police force for parts of mainly Black Jackson has...
On North Carolina’s Supreme Court, G.O.P. Justices Move to Reconsider Democratic Rulings
The court’s new majority will rehear two major voting rights cases decided two months ago. The rare move heightens the debate over partisan influences on...
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