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BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court dismisses a case alleging that Mississippi's congressional map is racially gerrymandered. In doing so, SCOTUS affirms a lower court decision that Mississippi is no longer required to preclear maps in congressional redistricting.democracydocket.com/cases/mississi…
After the 2000 census, Mississippi was placed under a court order to use court-drawn congressional maps until the state drew a "constitutional congressional redistricting plan that is precleared in accordance with the procedures in Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965."
The order was modified in 2011 after the 2010 census and remained in effect at the time of the 2020 census and reapportionment. However, in 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered Section 5 of the VRA ineffective in its Shelby County v. Holder decision.
⚖️The Supreme Court of North Carolina is now hearing arguments over the state's new legislative and congressional redistricting maps. Follow along for live updates.
📺Stream the proceedings here:
📺Stream the proceedings here:
Find the case filings here👇
Harper v. Hall: democracydocket.com/cases/north-ca…
NCLCV v. Hall: democracydocket.com/cases/north-ca…
Harper v. Hall: democracydocket.com/cases/north-ca…
NCLCV v. Hall: democracydocket.com/cases/north-ca…
HARPER: "The North Carolina Constitution establishes a democracy in which all political power is derived from the people and must be founded upon their will...Central to this democratic form of government are free and fair elections in which all citizens have equal voting power."
Despite a problematic op-ed recently published in the NYT, election subversion and #JimCrow era voter suppression wielded today are inextricably and problematically linked. We need the #FreedomToVoteAct and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to mitigate this harm. 🧵
Election subversion and voter suppression were used together during the #JimCrow era of the 1870s-1950s to prevent Black voters from utilizing their full electoral power in the South: (2/9)
Georgia: 33 Black lawmakers who helped write a new state constitution guaranteeing voting rights for formerly enslaved Georgians were expelled from the state legislature after white legislators argued they had no right to hold office. (3/9)
motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
It's 🍃🍂#FreedomToVoteFall🍂🍃 y'all! 🧵👇🏾
Time to put pressure on U.S. Senators across the country to pass the newly introduced #FreedomToVoteAct and #RestoreTheVRA.
Make the call every day this Fall:
☎️ 833-465-7142
@WeJoinFrontline put these slides together to help:
Time to put pressure on U.S. Senators across the country to pass the newly introduced #FreedomToVoteAct and #RestoreTheVRA.
Make the call every day this Fall:
☎️ 833-465-7142
@WeJoinFrontline put these slides together to help:
Keep the pressure on U.S. Senators - call every day this Fall to get them to pass the #FreedomToVoteAct and #RestoreTheVRA:
☎️ 833-465-7142
Use the key points on these slides to help:
☎️ 833-465-7142
Use the key points on these slides to help:
Keep the pressure on U.S. Senators - call every day this Fall to get them to pass the #FreedomToVoteAct and #RestoreTheVRA:
☎️ 833-465-7142
Use the key points on these slides to help:
☎️ 833-465-7142
Use the key points on these slides to help:
Our democracy is in crisis. We applaud the @HouseJudiciary Committee, Chairman @RepJerryNadler and @RepCohen for recognizing the urgency of this moment and holding today’s hearing to make the case for why we need to #RestoreTheVRA to protect our freedom to vote.
.@fairfightaction is grateful to @KristenClarkeJD @civilrightsorg @NAACP_LDF @BrennanCenter @ACLU @MALDEF and @LawyersComm, and to @SpeakerPelosi and @HouseDemocrats for making this hearing possible.
Their testimonies made it abundantly clear that federal action is desperately needed as states continue to enact voting restrictions that disproportionately harm voters of color. Congress must act immediately to protect the freedom to vote.
“What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution? …What is wrong with having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?”
Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley
Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley
“Guaranteeing the right to vote and ensuring every vote is counted has always been the most patriotic thing we can do… John Lewis said, ‘Freedom is not a state; it is an act.’ …We WILL act… For our democracy, for America itself, we MUST act.” @JoeBiden
Tom Brady: “Not a lot of people think that we could have won. And in fact I think about 40% of the people still don't think we won.”
President Biden: “I understand that.
President Biden: “I understand that.
"You can be in favor or against more government regulation and still have home in the Republican Party… The ONLY thing you cannot be is in FAVOR of VOTING RIGHTS and against #TheBigLie." @marceelias @DeadlineWH
PLEASE FOLLOW @DemocracyDocket for updates.
PLEASE FOLLOW @DemocracyDocket for updates.
Our United States leadership struggle is no longer Left versus Right.
Our choice is now DEFEND DEMOCRACY or enable DICTATORSHIP.
To DEFEND DEMOCRACY, reject the radicalized Republican Party.
#DemocracyOrDictatorship #ResignRepublican @MeidasTouch
Our choice is now DEFEND DEMOCRACY or enable DICTATORSHIP.
To DEFEND DEMOCRACY, reject the radicalized Republican Party.
#DemocracyOrDictatorship #ResignRepublican @MeidasTouch
“We need TWO political parties in this country that are both LIVING IN REALITY and you (Republicans) ain’t one of them!!“ @TimRyan
#TimRyan @RepTimRyan #TimRyanForSenate
#TimRyan @RepTimRyan #TimRyanForSenate
January 6 was a failed attempt to overthrow American democracy.
By purging Liz Cheney, the Republican Party completed its transformation into a fascist, Authoritarian cult.
OUR DUTY as Americans is to DEFEND DEMOCRACY and #RejectGOPFascism. @MeidasTouch
By purging Liz Cheney, the Republican Party completed its transformation into a fascist, Authoritarian cult.
OUR DUTY as Americans is to DEFEND DEMOCRACY and #RejectGOPFascism. @MeidasTouch
“I am sure Matt Gaetz is not feeling very comfortable today.”
That evergreen sentence was uttered by Fritz Scheller, lawyer for Joel Greenberg, associate of Matt Gaetz (Q-FL), on April 8, 2021:
That evergreen sentence was uttered by Fritz Scheller, lawyer for Joel Greenberg, associate of Matt Gaetz (Q-FL), on April 8, 2021:
“One of the most influential Dark Money groups in Republican circles is WRITING VOTER SUPPRESSION LAWS IN SECRET to make it harder for Black, Brown, and Young people to be able to VOTE.” @AriBerman to @chrislhayes
“Keep pointing this out.” @brooklynmarie
“Keep pointing this out.” @brooklynmarie
#ClangClangClangWentJoshHawley
Yap, yap, yap went Ted Cruz
“Crap, crap, crap” went McCarthy
‘Cause his party continued to LOSE …
🌈 Thank you @RandyRainbow for this lovely little ditty. 🌈
Yap, yap, yap went Ted Cruz
“Crap, crap, crap” went McCarthy
‘Cause his party continued to LOSE …
🌈 Thank you @RandyRainbow for this lovely little ditty. 🌈
“I want people to understand the significance of January 6… I want people to understand that thousands of rioters came to the Capitol hell-bent on violence and destruction and murder." DC Metro Police Officer Michael Fanone 4/27/21 @donlemon @CNNTonight
“The President* of the United States sending an angry violent mob to disrupt proceedings at the Capitol cannot stand… This is not something we can look past or pretend didn’t happen or move on… We’ve got to make sure this never happens again.” Liz Cheney
The American Rescue Plan that President Biden will sign tomorrow could increase income for some of America’s poor & low-income families by 20% this year. This is part of the bold action Biden promised the #PoorPeoplesCampaign last September.
While we have more work to do to make these changes permanent & address longterm inequality, President Biden & Vice President Harris have already helped shift the conversation about what is possible.
Not a single Republican was willing to join Democrats to pass this legislation, but what VP Harris said to our PPC Assembly 2 years ago is still true: ending poverty is a moral issue that can unite Americans & lift us all.
Honored to testify under oath against voter suppression before the House Oversight Committee this morning, alongside a mother of the movement Diane Nash. The fraud is the claim of voter fraud as a way of not dealing with real voter suppression.
Record voter turnout has more to do w/people fighting against regression than supposedly not being affected by voter suppression. Democrats & Republicans in the South couldn't resist it, but Republicans have now exacerbated voter suppression by arguing "retrogression is legal."
A federal judge from South Carolina who is white asked, "Why is it that you all don't want people to vote?" And that is the ultimate question. Why are we more interested in retrogression than progression? #votingrights #RestoreTheVRA
#AskGregAQuestion: I was purged — how do we fight back? How important are Exit Polls? What about #VoterSuppression in Ohio? Why won’t the Dems go after Crosscheck? facebook.com/notes/greg-pal…
#AskGregAQuestion: Has #RonDeSantis and his GOP Legislature derailed the #Amendment4 that Floridians enacted? facebook.com/notes/greg-pal… #Florida
#AskGregAQuestion: How important are #ExitPolls for the #DemocraticPrimary? facebook.com/notes/greg-pal…
"Elizabeth Warren’s Big Challenge: Winning Black Voters" nytimes.com/2019/10/06/us/…
Jessie Jackson asked #ElizabethWarren and #BernieSanders to meet with us privately to plan an attack on the racist #Crosscheck vote purge system.
Liz fled while #Bernie spent real time with @RevJJackson and I to get the lowdown. facebook.com/GregPalastInve… #ElizabethWarren #BernieSanders #Election2016 #TrumpStoleIt #Election2020 #StopTheSteal #Elections #VoterSuppression #VotingRights #CivilRights #RestoreTheVRA
Think you’re registered to vote? Think again. With all this purg’n going on, you could be x’d out and you won’t even know it. But there’s a simple way you can defeat the GOP's vote-thieving tricks: Re-register! #NationalVoterRegistrationDay #NVRD
3 months before an election, EVERYONE needs to check their voter registration to see if they’ve been removed. And if you have been removed — or you've not registered yet, there's no better day to do it than TODAY! rollingstone.com/politics/polit… #NationalVoterRegistrationDay #NVRD
Register yourself. Then help register your partner, your family — and your Twitter friends by sharing this.
Friends don't let friends lose their vote!
nationalvoterregistrationday.org
#NationalVoterRegistrationDay #NVRD
Friends don't let friends lose their vote!
nationalvoterregistrationday.org
#NationalVoterRegistrationDay #NVRD
Democrat #DanMcCready supposedly lost the special election in #NorthCarolina’s 9th Congressional District to Republican #DanBishop by less than 4,000 votes. However, racially biased #VoterSuppression schemes easily account for the GOP "victory" margin. gregpalast.com/jim-crow-steal…
Under the violently partisan Elections Board chief Kim Strach, #NorthCarolina targeted 561,693 voters based on the measurably racist and absurdly wrong #Crosscheck list created by the discredited #KrisKobach of Kansas. gregpalast.com/jim-crow-steal… #NorthCarolinaSpecialElection
The vote scam, which I exposed for @RollingStone and Al Jazeera, showed that well over 100,000 voters were wrongly purged for supposedly being registered or voting in two states. rollingstone.com/politics/polit… #NorthCarolinaSpecialElection
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Democracy Diverted: Polling Place Closures and the Right to Vote civilrights.org/democracy-dive… via @civilrightsorg #RestoreTheVRA
In the 6 years since Shelby County v. Holder gutted key voter protections, more than 1,600 polling sites have been closed in 13 states. It's time for Congress to act: tell them to #RestoreTheVOTE and pass the VRAA! bit.ly/PassVRAA
😱 #Ohio is set to purge 235,000 voters from the rolls TODAY!!! The state ALREADY removed 265,000 voters from the rolls in January, so with this latest purge, half a million voters will have been removed so far this year. huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ohio-vot…
Ohio is using the same discredited, biased #PurgeByPostcard game our team is fighting in #Georgia. Our experts say the method is over 70% wrong. That’s 200,000 voters in Ohio set to be wrongly purged TODAY!!! gregpalast.com/georgias-brian…
Bob Fitrakis, a top #VotingRights attorney, has already notified #Ohio's GOP Secretary of State, Frank LaRose, that he plans to sue in federal court under the National Voter Registration Act. This purge is a CRIME, and when they steal Ohio they steal the nation. #NVRA
#Ohio is using the discredited, biased #PurgeByPostcard game our team is fighting in #Georgia. Our experts say the method is over 70% wrong. That’s 200,000 voters in Ohio set to be wrongly purged this Friday. dispatch.com/news/20190904/…
As @darreldrowland of @DispatchAlerts reports, "#Ohio already removed 265,000 from the voter rolls earlier this year, meaning if another 235,000 come off the books Friday, half-a-million will have been removed this year." dispatch.com/news/20190903/… #PurgeByPostcard #ElectionFraud
@darreldrowland @DispatchAlerts Bob Fitrakis, a top #VotingRights attorney, has already notified #Ohio's GOP Secretary of State, Frank LaRose, that he plans to sue in federal court under the National Voter Registration Act. This purge is a CRIME, and when they steal Ohio they steal the nation! #PurgeByPostcard
Movement thoughts on the 53rd anniversary of the #VotingRightsAct:
The popular imagination "schoolbook" version of the Civil Rights Movement is that MLK appeared in Montgomery & led a bus boycott, which started a protest cycle that culminated in "I Have A Dream" & the VRA. /1
The popular imagination "schoolbook" version of the Civil Rights Movement is that MLK appeared in Montgomery & led a bus boycott, which started a protest cycle that culminated in "I Have A Dream" & the VRA. /1
The Golden Age narrative obfuscates organizing work of everyday people through the brutal Jim Crow south & the falsely "colorblind" North of the 1920s-50s. There were countless efforts to organize black political power from the farmhands of the west coast to the NYC boroughs. /2
This classical framing of the "golden age of the civil rights movement" ignores a lot of what led to the passage of the VRA: 1st, decades of work done by communists that laid down the roots of the movement in the deep south of the 1930s. /3
53 years ago today President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, the country's most important civil rights law. 2016 was the first presidential election in 50 years without the law’s full protections. #RestoreTheVRA
Because the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, 17 states with 189 electoral votes had new voting restrictions in 2016. h/t @BrennanCenter
When we talk about voter suppression, we’re no longer talking about the nostalgic disenfranchisement of 1965. We’re talking about a gutted Voting Rights Act that allows states with the worst histories of discrimination to again block access to the ballot. #RestoreTheVRA #VRA53
Looks like bad news in the fight against GOP racial gerrymandering in Texas, another case that has been stonewalled all decade by conservative judges
Texas is one of the most racially gerrymandered congressional maps in the country. Republicans should have drawn 3 more districts to elect Latino voters' candidate preferences, but the Supreme Court just let them get away with not doing so supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf…
GOP gerrymandering in Texas likely cost Dems 5 House seats in 2016, more than any other state. The Supreme Court just reversed a ruling that found this map intentionally discriminated against Latinos, possibly costing them 3 seats supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf… dailykos.com/stories/2017/7…
