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June 7, 2012
Blogging the Beltway: Gov. Rick Scott presses on, but there's a catch: Local officials won't do it.
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June 1, 2012
Blogging the Beltway: In one day, both the state's voter-purging efforts and voter-registration law get blocked.
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May 18, 2012
Blogging the Beltway: Courts, Congress and Obama's campaign unveil efforts to protect voter access.
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December 13, 2011
Blogging the Beltway: The attorney general puts new voting practices on notice -- but also slams some of the old ones.
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December 12, 2011
Blogging the Beltway: The attorney general's upcoming Texas speech won't announce legal action, but it will still be historic.
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July 26, 2011
For months, Democrats have criticized the restrictive laws. Now Debbie Wasserman Schultz tells us what they're actually doing.
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by Sheryl Huggins Salomon onJune 5, 2011
In a case before the Justice Department, a political map is drawn to keep a small group of white voters from being in a majority-black district.
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by Mary C. Curtis onMarch 28, 2011
Republican-controlled legislatures are pushing strict voter identification. They say it's to limit fraud. Opponents say the goal is to exclude people of color.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onFebruary 3, 2011
In a suit aiming to strike down the law's protections, a federal judge seems to think that evidence of racial discrimination is ancient history.
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July 9, 2010
It's in everyone’s best interests to find out why, after having a blackjack outside a polling place and calling people “crackers," the Justice's sole movement against King Samir Shabazz was an injunction barring him from having a weapon within 100 feet of a polling place.
