The Tarrant County District Attorney’s office is asking an appellate court to reverse a ruling that overturned Crystal ...
The current suffrage restoration process in Mississippi requires a legislator to submit a bill on each person’s behalf.
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia filed a brief in federal court Tuesday opposing Georgia Secretary of State Brad ...
Despite an uphill battle, Democrats are pushing again for passage of a voting rights bill named after the late civil rights ...
A group of homeless people in a small Oregon city challenged local laws banning sleeping in public. The case has broad ...
They elected a Black lieutenant governor in 1873 and another Black U.S. senator in 1874, and consistently held the secretary of state position ... The Mississippi House passed a bill to restore voting ...
The Supreme Court declines to hear a case challenging Texas’s mail-in voting laws, leaving age restrictions in place.
It specifically targets those ... voting rights workers for assisting others in the past – convictions that were overturned on appeals, the suit notes. Sign up to First Thing Our US morning ...
Mississippi’s constitutional convention of 1890 was held ... rights have never come easy to Mississippi, voting advocates say. “There’s never been a time period in Mississippi history where we have ...
Smith also calls for legalizing marijuana and restoring voting rights for former felons who have completed their sentences. Thompson was unopposed in the Democratic primary. He has held a version ...
While the 300 million non-voters are not all migrant workers, the issue of lack of mobility of various groups including migrant workers hampers their voting rights ... will be held in seven ...
Services were held at the Congregation Agudath Sholom ... form the Department of Homeland Security and championing civil rights, voting rights, women’s reproductive freedom and LGBTQ rights.