Pelosi urges House to pass voting rights bill ‘now’ — even as senators vow to block it
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement comes as opposition from a key Senate Democrat puts the bill’s future in doubt.
By Emily Singer - June 08, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement comes as opposition from a key Senate Democrat puts the bill’s future in doubt.
By Emily Singer - June 08, 2021Democrats are eager to turn the page on the Trump administration, especially when it comes to judges.
By Associated Press - June 07, 2021Campsites used by voting rights marchers in 1965 need immediate attention or risk being lost, according to the nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation.
By Associated Press - June 03, 2021Republicans tried to cut back on Sunday voting hours, which would impact voter events organized by Black churches.
By Emily Singer - June 02, 2021Besides members of the GOP, President Joe Biden appeared to call out Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, both of whom have frustrated their party.
By Associated Press - June 02, 2021The win for voting rights comes amid a GOP effort to make it harder to vote absentee.
By Emily Singer - June 01, 2021Every Republican senator on the Rules Committee voted against an amendment that would thwart attempts to criminalize handing out refreshments to voters.
By Emily Singer - May 11, 2021It’s the GOP’s latest attack on the For the People Act, a Democratic bill that aims to make voting fairer and easier.
By Emily Singer - May 11, 2021H.B. 294 targets absentee ballots as well as early in-person voting.
By Emily Singer - May 07, 2021A group of civil rights and voting rights advocates filed a lawsuit against Florida’s new law minutes after it was signed by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis.
By Emily Singer - May 06, 2021Nearly 70% of voters cast ballots either early or by mail in the last election cycle.
By Emily Singer - April 30, 2021Lawmakers have used the repeated lie that the 2020 election was rife with fraud as justification for their voter suppression bills.
By Emily Singer - April 26, 2021The bill would have kicked roughly 200,000 voters off of a list that lets them vote absentee in every election.
By Emily Singer - April 23, 2021A Pew Research poll found that most Americans support the voting provisions within the ‘For the People Act’, the pro-democracy bill Republicans are working to block.
By Emily Singer - April 23, 2021Republican state Rep. Travis Grantham used the term while condemning a Democratic lawmaker who said the GOP’s voter suppression bill targets Black people.
By Emily Singer - April 21, 2021Gov. Greg Gianforte signed bills eliminating same-day voter registration and toughens the state’s voter ID requirement.
By Emily Singer - April 20, 2021Republican state lawmakers are debating a bill that would allow Texas to avoid following a provision in H.R. 1 requiring them to enact automatic voter registration for all citizens.
By Emily Singer - April 16, 2021A new paper from the Public Policy Institute of California found that in some cases an increase in absentee voting can help Republicans more than Democrats.
By Emily Singer - April 14, 2021The CEOS of some of the country’s biggest corporations publicly opposed Republicans’ continuing campaign against voting rights.
By Emily Singer - April 14, 2021Arkansas Republicans are on the brink of passing a new law that would make it a crime to go within 100 feet of a polling place for any purpose other than voting.
By Emily Singer - April 13, 2021GOP Sens. Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Mike Lee will introduce legislation on Tuesday to pull Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption.
By Emily Singer - April 13, 2021The heads of the biggest companies in Michigan have entered the debate around voting rights.
By Emily Singer - April 13, 2021Democrats in Congress have introduced the Stay in Line to Vote Act, which would block states from implementing bans on refreshments at polling sites.
By Emily Singer - April 12, 2021Georgia Republicans knew that businesses were concerned about the new election law before they passed it.
By Emily Singer - April 12, 2021Republican lawmakers in Florida removed a provision from an election bill similar to one that caused uproar in Georgia.
By Emily Singer - April 09, 2021The Second Amendment is apparently the only one that matters.
By Josh Israel - April 09, 2021‘The myth of voter fraud is frequently used to target communities of color to delegitimize their vote,’ said Common Cause Texas.
By Emily Singer - April 08, 2021Georgia was just hit with the fifth federal lawsuit against its new law that makes it harder to vote.
By Emily Singer - April 08, 2021Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) was one of 147 congressional Republicans who voted to block certification of President Joe Biden’s election win.
By Emily Singer - April 07, 2021GOP lawmakers are threatening corporations that oppose Republican voter suppression tactics.
By Emily Singer - April 06, 2021