US Supreme Court allows court-imposed voting maps in North Carolina and Pennsylvania
In spite of protests from Republican state lawmakers, the US Supreme Court has decided to uphold electoral maps approved by state courts in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, at least for the 2022 midterm elections. While the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of upholding the court-approved maps for the time being, statements made by four of the highest court’s most conservative justices suggest that it may soon reconsider the authority of state courts to overrule maps drawn by partisan state legislatures. Visit World Is One
Colorado clerk is indicted for election tampering and misconduct
County clerk Tina Peters of Mesa County, Colorado has been indicted by a grand jury for unlawful access of election data, identity theft, criminal impersonation, and a number of other charges related to her actions following the 2020 election. Peters has repeatedly said that she believes the 2020 Presidential election may have been fraudulently stolen from Donald Trump and that her efforts to have election data reanalyzed were taken in her capacity as a concerned public servant. Meanwhile, leaders within the Colorado Republican party
In Selma, foot soldier’s kin boosts youth voting rights role
Twenty-seven year-old Elliot Smith has taken on new leadership roles within a multiracial coalition of younger Americans seeking to protect and expand their voting and labor rights. Smith serves as the co-director of student and youth engagement for the Poor People’s Campaign. This year, for the first time, he spoke at the annual commemoration of Bloody Sunday in Alabama. Veteran civil rights activist Rev. William Barber III says, “At Elliott’s age, King was leading the Montgomery bus boycott… We shouldn’t have people waiting until
Harris calls for voting rights legislation before walking across Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday anniversary
On the 57th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” Vice President Kamala Harris called, yet again, for passage of voting rights reform on the federal level. “Bloody Sunday” is the name given to the attempt of more than 600 voting rights advocates to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge into Selma, Alabama in 1965, only to be beaten brutally back by state and local authorities. Visiting the famed site in person, Vice President Harris referred to recent restrictive, GOP-authored, election laws on the state level as “un-American.”
Wisconsin Republicans take redistricting fight to high court
Claiming an illegal bias in favor of racial minority voters, Wisconsin Republicans have asked the United States Supreme Court to put a stay on a decision made by their state’s highest court. Because Wisconsin’s Democratic governor and Republican-dominated legislature could not reach an agreement on how to redraw their state’s election maps based on the 2020 census, they appealed to the Wisconsin State Supreme Court to make a final ruling. While the chosen maps still give an overall advantage to Republican legislators, they do