How the Supreme Court controlled the midterms
2 years, 1 month ago

How the Supreme Court controlled the midterms

Raw Story  

Midterms are over and we have the results. The other thing that’s clear is that elections are being determined by Supreme Court Abortion was the second most important issue for people in midterms according to exit polls, only a few points behind inflation. Vermont voters passed an initiative to amend the state constitution to ensure a right to “personal reproductive autonomy.” Another Supreme Court decision, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, got less attention but should probably have been highlighted by the Democrats in the way abortion was. Last year, the Supreme Court overturned a New York gun regulation that allowed more discretion for issuing gun permits with a “may issue” law rather than a “shall issue” law. There’s not much we can do about the Supreme Court without reform, like expanding the court to 13, but federal judges across the country are working to fight back against the court’s fascism.

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Fight to restore Black voters’ strength could dismantle Florida’s Fair Districts Amendment
3 months, 1 week ago

Fight to restore Black voters’ strength could dismantle Florida’s Fair Districts Amendment

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A coalition of voting rights groups is pointing to a voter-approved amendment to argue Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the state constitution when he dismantled a Black congressional district, but if they lose the case, the Fair Districts Amendment itself could also be tossed out. “Will the whole FDA have to go?” In 2010, Florida voters …

How Republican Courts Could Sabotage the Ohio Abortion Vote and Future Ballot Measures
54 years, 11 months ago

How Republican Courts Could Sabotage the Ohio Abortion Vote and Future Ballot Measures

Slate  

After Ohio voted to enshrine reproductive care access in the state’s constitution on Tuesday, abortion rights supporters are now a perfect 7-for-7 in ballot initiative fights since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. The depth of voter support for abortion rights is impressive, but celebrations of the success of abortion rights ballot initiatives overlook the next step …

Legal fights over voting districts could play role in control of Congress for 2024
1 year, 3 months ago

Legal fights over voting districts could play role in control of Congress for 2024

Associated Press  

Democrats got a potential boost for the 2024 congressional elections as courts in Alabama and Florida ruled recently that Republican-led legislatures had unfairly diluted the voting power of Black residents. Another trial alleging racial violations in voting districts got underway Tuesday in Georgia, where Democrats also hope to make gains, while voting rights advocates in Ohio decided to drop a …

Deal over Florida’s redistricting plan could lead to restoration of Black-dominant district
1 year, 4 months ago

Deal over Florida’s redistricting plan could lead to restoration of Black-dominant district

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Voting rights groups that sued state officials over a Florida redistricting plan championed by Gov. The agreement reached late last week opens the possibility that the seat will be restored to a district dominated by Black voters, depending on how a state judge rules and whether the judge’s decision survives rounds of appeals all the way to …

Supreme Court directs Ohio’s top court to take another look at redistricting lawsuit
1 year, 5 months ago

Supreme Court directs Ohio’s top court to take another look at redistricting lawsuit

Associated Press  

The Ohio Supreme Court will take yet another look at the legality of the state’s congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday set aside a ruling striking down the districts and ordered further consideration of the case. In both Ohio and North Carolina, Republican state lawmakers contended in appeals that their state’s highest court had gone too far …

Supreme Court rejects novel legislative theory but leaves a door open for 2024 election challenges
1 year, 5 months ago

Supreme Court rejects novel legislative theory but leaves a door open for 2024 election challenges

Associated Press  

The U.S. Supreme Court shot down a controversial legal theory that could have changed the way elections are run across the country but left the door open to more limited challenges that could increase its role in deciding voting disputes during the 2024 presidential election. The court’s 6-3 ruling Tuesday drove a stake through the most extreme version of the …

Supreme Court rejects novel legislative theory, but leaves door open for 2024 election challenges
1 year, 5 months ago

Supreme Court rejects novel legislative theory, but leaves door open for 2024 election challenges

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The court found that state courts still must act within “ordinary bounds” when reviewing …

The Supreme Court just shut off Trump allies' strategy to overturn presidential elections
1 year, 5 months ago

The Supreme Court just shut off Trump allies' strategy to overturn presidential elections

Raw Story  

The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Moore v. Harper, rejecting a fringe legal theory that that could have given state legislatures a blanket right to ignore state courts on election and redistricting issues and pass unrestricted rigged legislative maps, was met with a collective sigh of relief by voting rights advocates across the country. "The Supreme Court said clearly that …

John Roberts Has Wrested Back Control of the Supreme Court
1 year, 5 months ago

John Roberts Has Wrested Back Control of the Supreme Court

Slate  

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. So it was with Moore v. Harper, Roberts’ 6–3 decision on Tuesday rejecting the “independent state legislature” theory devised to subvert voting rights. That’s unsurprising, Roberts noted, since legislatures are “mere creatures of the state constitutions, and cannot be greater than their creators.” …

New voting districts could change again in some states before the 2024 elections
1 year, 6 months ago

New voting districts could change again in some states before the 2024 elections

Associated Press  

The 2022 elections marked the first using new voting districts drawn from updated census data. RACE IN REDISTRICTING The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that Alabama’s congressional districts likely violated the federal Voting Rights Act by diluting the political power of Black voters. It ordered a lower court to impose new U.S. House and state …

Ron DeSantis Is Luring the Supreme Court to Overturn Landmark Precedent Again
1 year, 8 months ago

Ron DeSantis Is Luring the Supreme Court to Overturn Landmark Precedent Again

Slate  

Despite long-standing Supreme Court precedent directing that the proposal is unconstitutional, Florida legislators this month are seeking to broaden the death penalty to non-homicide crimes. Florida legislators say “that’s the point.” Their goal is to provide the Supreme Court with the opportunity to review Kennedy, at which point both Gov. Of course, there’s a good reason state legislators now think …

EXPLAINER: How Supreme Court case could alter US House seats
2 years ago

EXPLAINER: How Supreme Court case could alter US House seats

Associated Press  

Partisan gerrymandering is back before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case stemming from the latest attempt by North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature to draw U.S. House districts favoring GOP candidates. The lawsuit against the U.S. House districts enacted by the Republican-led Legislature cites the state constitution’s guarantee of “free and equal” elections. OTHER COURT CASES The outcome of the North …

Supreme Court weighs ‘most important case’ on democracy
2 years ago

Supreme Court weighs ‘most important case’ on democracy

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is about to confront a new elections case, a Republican-led challenge asking the justices for a novel ruling that could significantly increase the power of state lawmakers over elections for Congress and the presidency. The Republican leaders of North Carolina’s legislature told the Supreme Court that the Constitution’s “carefully drawn lines place the regulation of …

The Supreme Court’s Hands Are All Over The 2022 Midterm Election Results
2 years, 1 month ago

The Supreme Court’s Hands Are All Over The 2022 Midterm Election Results

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING If Republicans win control of the House by just a handful of seats or less, they will owe their slim majority to the Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme Court. In a series of election law cases, including one yet to be decided, the court’s conservative justices authorized partisan gerrymandering and effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act’s protections …

How the Supreme Court Likely Handed Control of the House to Republicans
2 years, 1 month ago

How the Supreme Court Likely Handed Control of the House to Republicans

Slate  

Democrats had a surprisingly good election night on Tuesday. An early test came when voting rights advocates filed a lawsuit against Alabama’s new congressional map, which packed most Black residents into a single, sprawling district, then sprinkled the rest throughout overwhelmingly white districts. A three-judge district court refused to block Texas’ new congressional map, which reduced Black and Latino representation, …

These Supreme Court cases could kill what remains of US democracy
2 years, 2 months ago

These Supreme Court cases could kill what remains of US democracy

Al Jazeera  

In recent years, the United States Supreme Court has dutifully laboured to erode the protections guaranteed under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a civil rights era milestone that aimed to safeguard minority voters from racial discrimination. One of the high-profile cases that the Supreme Court is currently hearing deals with Alabama’s congressional redistricting map, which was implemented by that state’s …

Supreme Court to consider case that could radically reshape the country’s elections
2 years, 2 months ago

Supreme Court to consider case that could radically reshape the country’s elections

Raw Story  

The U.S. Supreme Court could soon grant state legislatures unconditional control over federal elections, clearing the way for lawmakers to gerrymander their states with impunity and pass voter restriction measures without interference from state courts. If the nation’s highest court rules in favor of allowing the gerrymandered map, it may do so based on a novel argument — the so-called …

How Ron DeSantis blew up black-held congressional districts and may have broken Florida law
2 years, 2 months ago

How Ron DeSantis blew up black-held congressional districts and may have broken Florida law

Raw Story  

Ron DeSantis was incensed. Barbara Pariente, a former chief justice of the state Supreme Court who retired in 2019, told ProPublica that DeSantis’ collaboration with people connected to the national GOP would constitute “significant evidence of a violation of the constitutional amendment.” “If that evidence was offered in a trial, the fact that DeSantis was getting input from someone working …

Here are the major cases before the Supreme Court this fall
2 years, 2 months ago

Here are the major cases before the Supreme Court this fall

LA Times  

Here’s a look at some of the major cases to be heard by the Supreme Court in the term beginning Oct. 3. Since the 1978 case Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke, the court has held that colleges and universities may consider race as a “plus factor” for Black and Latino applicants to create a more diverse class. …

Not just guns and abortion: How US top court could reshape rules
2 years, 5 months ago

Not just guns and abortion: How US top court could reshape rules

Al Jazeera  

The conservative majority on the US Supreme Court boldly used its powers this past term to advance right-wing positions. The US Supreme Court’s most consequential term in decades, with blockbuster rulings on abortion, guns, religion and climate change policy, illustrated how its expanded conservative majority is willing to boldly use its power with far-reaching impacts on American society. Democratic President …

Judge strikes down parts of Florida election law; cites race
2 years, 8 months ago

Judge strikes down parts of Florida election law; cites race

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal judge struck down portions of a Florida election law passed last year, saying in a ruling Thursday that the Republican-led government was using subtle tactics to suppress Black voters. The law tightened rules on mailed ballots, drop boxes and other popular election methods — changes that made it more difficult for Black voters who, overall, …

Republicans May Revive the Most Dangerous Kind of Gerrymandering
54 years, 11 months ago

Republicans May Revive the Most Dangerous Kind of Gerrymandering

Slate  

Across the country, legislators are carving up their states along political and racial lines to create new districts for the 2022 election. South Carolina’s legislative and congressional districts indisputably violate one person, one vote. The Supreme Court finally put a stop to this anti-democratic state of affairs in Reynolds and Wesberry, ruling that constitutional principles of equality require one person, …

The Supreme Court’s Ultraconservatives Are Preparing a Radical Assault on American Democracy
54 years, 11 months ago

The Supreme Court’s Ultraconservatives Are Preparing a Radical Assault on American Democracy

Slate  

series is made possible by the support of Slate Plus members and readers like you. By a 4–4 vote, with Roberts joining the remaining liberals, the court refused to block a decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that compelled the state to count mail-in ballots received by Nov. 6. A Pennsylvania statute requires mail-in ballots to be returned by 8 …

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