black voter suppression
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Just When Jeff Sessions’ Seat Is Up for Special Election, a Judge Rules That Ala. Doesn’t Have to Tell Felons They May Be Able to Vote. Hmmm
Although there are small victories holding against the tide of voter suppression, there is still a long way to go. A federal judge ruled Friday that Alabama election officials don’t have to tell those affected about a change in state voting qualifications that may give thousands of convicted felons the right to vote. HuffPost reports:…
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The GOP Keeps Quietly Purging Black Voters—and Democrats Aren’t Doing Anything About It
When both Pennsylvania Democratic Party Chairman Marcel Groen and the North Carolina Democratic Party’s deputy executive director, Douglass Wilson, were asked about a little-known, but nasty, national voter-purge effort called “Interstate Crosscheck” in their respective states during a broadcast of Reality Check, this author’s daily public-affairs radio program on Philadelphia’s WURD, neither could say what…
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Stop Playing: Impeachment Is Not a Black Political Strategy
Since the election of President Donald Trump, black political leaders have seemingly led the charge as public Democratic Party surrogates calling for impeachment. When everyone else couldn’t quite fathom Trump as a real-life Manchurian candidate, the black political and pundit class (to its credit) was already gnawing strong at the Trump-Putin link while vigorously questioning…
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The Troubling History of ‘the Most Racist Politician in America’
He goes by many names. The director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project refers to him as “the king of voter suppression.” Kansas’ state Senate minority leader called him “the most racist politician in America today.” Until the newly written Muslim ban goes into effect, he still holds the title of “architect…