Legislative Diary

A fake justification

Why does it matter that President Trump said that the illegal votes of millions of unauthorized immigrants denied him a popular vote majority? Voter fraud is the fake justification for voter-ID laws, whose purpose is to make it difficult for people to vote who are likely to vote Democratic. Elected officials who support these infringements …more >

January 16 – Action on voting rights

John Lewis nearly died when he marched over the Edmund Pettis Bridge. Alabama state troopers fractured his skull. Within days, President Johnson spoke to a joint session of Congress. He concluded his speech introducing the Voting Rights Act by declaring, “We shall overcome.” The Supreme Court gutted the enforcement provision of that law in a …more >

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