Arkansas Supreme Court rejects bid to put abortion on the ballot
4 months ago

Arkansas Supreme Court rejects bid to put abortion on the ballot

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 Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In a 4-3 ruling, the majority of the Arkansas Supreme Court upheld the secretary of state’s decision to reject the petition for the amendment, saying organizers behind the effort did not correctly submit the required number of signatures. But the Arkansas Secretary of State denied the petition, saying the group failed to submit sworn statements that confirmed paid canvassers were instructed on how to collect roughly 14,000 of those signatures. Boxes containing signatures supporting a proposed ballot measure to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban are delivered to a room in the state Capitol on July 5 “As such, we ordered the Secretary to count the signatures from volunteer canvassers, but we do not order him to count the signatures from paid canvassers. Supporters and opponents of a proposed ballot measure to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban hold signs outside the old Supreme Court chamber at the state Capitol in July State law requires campaigns to submit documentation identifying each paid canvasser by name and confirm that they received training on the rules for gathering signatures.

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U.S. Election Results 2024: Determining constitutional right to abortion with ballots
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

U.S. Election Results 2024: Determining constitutional right to abortion with ballots

The Hindu  

Since the U.S. overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling securing the right to abortion, several States of the North American country became the groundswell of public opposition. Not-for-profit public law observer Brennan Centre for Justice observed in a blogpost, “In most of these eight States, abortion opponents in official positions have used their power to try to block or …

Court reinstates Arkansas ban of electronic signatures on voter registration forms
3 months, 1 week ago

Court reinstates Arkansas ban of electronic signatures on voter registration forms

Associated Press  

— A federal appeals court has reinstated an Arkansas rule prohibiting election officials from accepting voter registration forms signed with an electronic signature. The board in April said Arkansas’ constitution only allows certain state agencies, and not elections officials, to accept electronic signatures. The rule was adopted after nonprofit group Get Loud Arkansas helped register voters using electronic signatures. “The …

Republicans Are Launching Last-Minute Attempts To Keep Abortion Off The Ballot
3 months, 1 week ago

Republicans Are Launching Last-Minute Attempts To Keep Abortion Off The Ballot

Huff Post  

“They know we’re winning. “Ultimately, the fight for reproductive freedom is also the fight for our democracy.” - Chris Melody Fields Figueredo Nebraska’s Supreme Court heard similar oral arguments this week to block the state’s abortion rights amendment, which would restore access to the procedure until fetal viability and loosen the state’s 12-week abortion ban. Today’s decision strips every Arkansan …

Lawsuit filed over Arkansas Republican officials blocking effort to close state GOP primary
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Lawsuit filed over Arkansas Republican officials blocking effort to close state GOP primary

Associated Press  

— Supporters of an effort to make Arkansas’ GOP primaries open only to registered Republicans have filed a lawsuit over state party officials blocking that proposal. The lawsuit filed in federal court on Monday stems from delegates at the state Republican Party convention voting to allow only registered GOP voters to participate in the party’s primary. The lawsuit filed by …

Anti-Abortion Crusaders Have a New Way to Keep the Question Away From Voters
54 years, 11 months ago

Anti-Abortion Crusaders Have a New Way to Keep the Question Away From Voters

Slate  

With more ballot initiatives ready to go before voters, supporters of reproductive rights are hoping to continue their impressive winning streak. But conservatives looking at what just happened in Arkansas are hoping they’ve found a way to stop the bleeding: by using obscure rules favored by election deniers to keep voters from weighing in on reproductive rights in the first …

An Arkansas court blocks abortion vote
4 months ago

An Arkansas court blocks abortion vote

NPR  

An Arkansas court blocks abortion vote An Arkansas court blocked an effort to let voters decide on whether the state should legalize abortion - meaning the state's ban remains in place. Josie Lenora of Little Rock Public Radio has been talking to supporters of that abortion rights amendment effort today, and joins us now. Writing for the majority today, Arkansas …

Arkansas Supreme Court blocks abortion measure
4 months ago

Arkansas Supreme Court blocks abortion measure

Politico  

Justices Karen Baker and Courtney Rae Hudson, in their dissent, accused Arkansas officials of unfairly changing the rules in order to disqualify the abortion-rights petition. Today’s decision strips every Arkansan of this power.” The group Arkansans for Limited Government submitted more than 100,000 signatures earlier this month for a ballot measure that would legalize abortion for any reason up to …

Montana becomes eighth state with ballot measure seeking to protect abortion rights
4 months ago

Montana becomes eighth state with ballot measure seeking to protect abortion rights

Associated Press  

— Voters will get to decide in November whether they want to protect the right to an abortion in the constitution of Montana, which on Tuesday became the eighth state to put the issue before the electorate this fall. Montana’s measure seeks to enshrine a 1999 Montana Supreme Court ruling that said the constitutional right to privacy protects the right …

Arkansas Supreme Court asked to disqualify ballot measure that would block planned casino
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Arkansas Supreme Court asked to disqualify ballot measure that would block planned casino

Associated Press  

— Opponents of a proposal to block a planned casino in Arkansas asked the state Supreme Court Thursday to disqualify the measure from the November ballot. Cherokee Nation Entertainment, which was awarded a license to build and operate the casino, and a newly formed affiliated group filed a lawsuit challenging the proposed constitutional amendment a day after the secretary of …

Proposal to block casino plans OK’d for Arkansas ballot; medical marijuana backers given more time
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Proposal to block casino plans OK’d for Arkansas ballot; medical marijuana backers given more time

Associated Press  

— A proposal aimed at blocking a planned casino in Arkansas qualified for the November ballot on Wednesday after election officials said supporters turned in more than enough signatures to qualify. Secretary of State John Thurston’s office said it verified that Local Voters in Charge, the group behind the casino measure, submitted at least 116,200 valid signatures from registered voters …

States break out new tactics to thwart abortion ballot measures
4 months, 3 weeks ago

States break out new tactics to thwart abortion ballot measures

Politico  

Yet many conservatives seeking to block the ballot measures argue that voters should not be allowed to weigh in directly on when and whether people can terminate a pregnancy. “We are working to make sure it doesn’t get on the ballot in the first place,” said Jill Norgaard, a board member of Arizona Right to Life and former Republican member …

Arkansas abortion measure’s signatures from volunteers alone would fall short, filing shows
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Arkansas abortion measure’s signatures from volunteers alone would fall short, filing shows

Associated Press  

— The signatures collected by volunteers for an Arkansas abortion-rights measure would fall short of the number needed to qualify for the ballot if those are the only ones counted, according to an initial tally from election officials filed Thursday with the state Supreme Court. The filing from the secretary of state’s office comes after the court ordered officials to …

Arkansas court orders state to count signatures collected by volunteers for abortion-rights measure
5 months ago

Arkansas court orders state to count signatures collected by volunteers for abortion-rights measure

Associated Press  

— The Arkansas Supreme Court on Tuesday night ordered the state to begin counting signatures submitted in favor of putting an abortion-rights measure on the ballot — but only ones collected by volunteers for the proposal’s campaign. The state has said that removing the signatures collected by paid canvassers would leave 87,382 from volunteers — nearly 3,000 short of the …

Abortion rights supporters report having enough signatures to qualify for Montana ballot
5 months ago

Abortion rights supporters report having enough signatures to qualify for Montana ballot

Associated Press  

— An initiative to ask voters if they want to protect the right to a pre-viability abortion in Montana’s constitution has enough signatures to appear on the November ballot, supporters said Friday. “We’re excited to have met the valid signature threshold and the House District threshold required to qualify this critical initiative for the ballot,” Kiersten Iwai, executive director of …

Montana judge: Signatures of inactive voters count for initiatives, including 1 to protect abortion
5 months, 1 week ago

Montana judge: Signatures of inactive voters count for initiatives, including 1 to protect abortion

Associated Press  

— A Montana judge said Tuesday that the Secretary of State’s Office erred in changing the rules governing whose signatures should count on petitions for three constitutional initiatives — including one to protect abortion rights — after officials tried to omit the signatures of inactive voters. District Judge Mike Menahan said he would give county election offices another week to …

Arkansas is sued for rejecting petitions on an abortion-rights ballot measure
5 months, 1 week ago

Arkansas is sued for rejecting petitions on an abortion-rights ballot measure

Associated Press  

— Arkansas is being sued for rejecting petitions in favor of a proposed ballot measure to scale back the state’s abortion ban, with supporters asking the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to order officials to start counting more than 100,000 signatures from people who back amending the constitution. Giving voters a chance to weigh in on the state’s ban would …

Ruling keeps abortion question on ballot in South Dakota
5 months, 1 week ago

Ruling keeps abortion question on ballot in South Dakota

Associated Press  

A state court judge’s ruling Monday keeps an abortion-rights question on the November ballot in South Dakota. “This is another failed effort by a small group opposed to giving women the option to terminate pregnancies caused by rape and incest or to address dangerous pregnancies affecting the life and health of women.” Republican Rep. Jon Hansen, who is a co-chair …

Arkansas election officials reject petitions submitted for an abortion-rights ballot measure
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Arkansas election officials reject petitions submitted for an abortion-rights ballot measure

Associated Press  

— Arkansas election officials on Wednesday rejected petitions submitted for an abortion-rights ballot measure that organizers hoped to put before voters this fall in a predominantly Republican state. The secretary of state’s office rejected the petitions submitted on Friday by supporters of the proposal, saying the group didn’t submit statements required regarding paid signature gatherers. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who opposed …

Arkansas election officials reject petitions submitted for an abortion rights ballot measure
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Arkansas election officials reject petitions submitted for an abortion rights ballot measure

LA Times  

Supporters and opponents of a proposed ballot measure to scale back Arkansas’ abortion ban protest last week at the state Capitol in Little Rock. Arkansas election officials rejected petitions Wednesday that were submitted for an abortion rights ballot measure that organizers hoped to put before voters in the predominantly Republican state this fall. The Arkansas secretary of state’s office rejected …

Arkansas election officials checking signatures of 3 measures vying for November ballot
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Arkansas election officials checking signatures of 3 measures vying for November ballot

Associated Press  

— Supporters of proposals to expand Arkansas’ medical marijuana program and repeal a casino license turned in thousands of signatures on Friday to try and get their measures before voters in the November election. “Our canvassers found voters eager to place an amendment on the ballot that will eliminate barriers to access and make it less expensive to acquire and …

Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024? Arkansas organizers aim to join the list
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024? Arkansas organizers aim to join the list

Associated Press  

— Organizers of an effort to scale back Arkansas’ abortion ban said they have more than enough signatures to try to put their proposal before voters in November’s election. Advocates collected nearly a million signatures to put a state constitutional amendment to legalize abortion until viability on the ballot, surpassing the nearly 892,000 required. MISSOURI Missouri abortion rights advocates turned …

Abortion measures could be on Arizona and Nebraska ballots after organizers submit signatures
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Abortion measures could be on Arizona and Nebraska ballots after organizers submit signatures

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Organizers in Arizona and Nebraska said Wednesday that they turned in far more signatures than required to get ballot measures on abortion rights before voters in November’s election. “In an abundance of caution, we just wanted to make sure that the voters’ signatures are safe.” Arizona for Abortion Access spokesperson Dawn Penich said it was the most signatures …

Abortion rights advocates in Arizona submit needed signatures to put issue on November ballot
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Abortion rights advocates in Arizona submit needed signatures to put issue on November ballot

LA Times  

Volunteers Judy Robbins, from left, and Lara Cerri collect Grace Harders’ signature on a petition to enshrine the right to abortion in the Arizona Constitution in April in Phoenix. Arizona abortion rights supporters on Wednesday turned in more than double the signatures needed to put the issue on November’s ballot in the key swing state. Politics Meet Arizona’s most powerful …

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Here’s the state of abortion rights now in the US
6 months ago

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Here’s the state of abortion rights now in the US

Associated Press  

Judges, state lawmakers and voters are deciding the future of abortion in the U.S. two years after the Supreme Court jolted the legal status quo with a ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. Limited abortion access prompts more out-of-state travel Bans in Republican-led states have prompted many people seeking abortions to travel to get care. The U.S. Supreme Court this …

The Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in 2022. Here’s the state of abortion rights in the U.S.
6 months ago

The Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in 2022. Here’s the state of abortion rights in the U.S.

LA Times  

People march through downtown Amarillo, Texas, last year to protest a lawsuit that aimed to ban the abortion drug mifepristone. Judges, state lawmakers and voters are deciding the future of abortion in the U.S. two years after the Supreme Court jolted the legal status quo with a ruling that overturned Roe vs. Wade. Limited abortion access prompts more out-of-state travel …

US Supreme Court sends Arkansas redistricting case back to judges after South Carolina ruling
6 months, 3 weeks ago

US Supreme Court sends Arkansas redistricting case back to judges after South Carolina ruling

Associated Press  

The Supreme Court on Monday sent a lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ 2021 U.S. House map back to a three-judge panel, ordering it to review the suit in light of the high court’s decision against similar claims of bias in a redistricting case from South Carolina. A three-judge panel last year dismissed the suit, which claimed the redrawn map violated the U.S. …

Voters in 10 states are deciding whether to strengthen access to abortion
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Voters in 10 states are deciding whether to strengthen access to abortion

NPR  

Voters in 10 states are deciding whether to strengthen access to abortion The national map for abortion access could be about to change as voters in 10 states, with a combined population of more than 75 million people, decide whether to put protections for reproductive rights into their state constitutions. — Scott Maucione New York The proposed amendment that could …

Arkansas Supreme Court upholds 2021 voting restrictions that state judge found unconstitutional
7 months, 1 week ago

Arkansas Supreme Court upholds 2021 voting restrictions that state judge found unconstitutional

Associated Press  

— The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld four voting restrictions passed by Republican lawmakers in 2021 that were struck down by a state judge as unconstitutional. The court had earlier stayed the judge’s decision in the case, so the restrictions were still in effect before Thursday’s ruling “We hold that the Acts are not clearly incompatible with the sections …

Arkansas panel bans electronic signatures on voter registration forms
8 months ago

Arkansas panel bans electronic signatures on voter registration forms

Associated Press  

— An Arkansas panel has prohibited election officials from accepting voter registration forms signed with an electronic signature, a move that critics say amounts to voter suppression. The order and an accompanying order say Arkansas’ constitution only allows certain state agencies, and not elections officials, to accept electronic signatures, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. The move comes after a nonprofit group, …

Federal appeals court hears arguments on nation’s first ban on gender-affirming care for minors
8 months, 1 week ago

Federal appeals court hears arguments on nation’s first ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

ST. LOUIS — Arguments before a federal appeals court that is considering whether to reinstate Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for minors focused Thursday on whether it and similar restrictions adopted by two dozen states discriminate on the basis of sex. Judge David Stras, who was appointed to the court by former President Donald Trump, asked attorneys on both …

GOP lawmakers try to thwart abortion rights ballot initiative in South Dakota
10 months ago

GOP lawmakers try to thwart abortion rights ballot initiative in South Dakota

Associated Press  

— South Dakota’s Republican-led Legislature is trying to thwart a proposed ballot initiative that would enable voters to protect abortion rights in the state constitution. If voters approve it, the three-paragraph addition to the South Dakota Constitution would ban the state from regulating abortion in the first trimester and allow regulations for the second trimester “only in ways that are …

Arkansas abortion ban may be scaled back, if group can collect enough signatures
11 months ago

Arkansas abortion ban may be scaled back, if group can collect enough signatures

Associated Press  

— Arkansas’ attorney general on Tuesday approved the wording of a proposed ballot measure that would scale back the state’s abortion ban, clearing the way for supporters to begin gathering enough signatures to qualify for the November election. The group must submit at least 90,704 valid signatures from registered voters — which is 6% of the votes cast in the …

Arkansas abortion ballot proposal: It's a worse law than Roe v. Wade, no matter the intentions.
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Arkansas abortion ballot proposal: It's a worse law than Roe v. Wade, no matter the intentions.

Slate  

In November, a political group in Arkansas announced it was pursuing a 2024 ballot measure to put a right to abortion in the state constitution. There’s been a lot of spirited debate in the reproductive rights movement about a related quandary: Should states looking to get abortion rights into their constitutions do so according to the previous standard of allowing …

Groups want full federal appeals court to revisit ruling limiting scope of the Voting Rights Act
1 year ago

Groups want full federal appeals court to revisit ruling limiting scope of the Voting Rights Act

Associated Press  

— Progressive advocacy groups in Arkansas on Monday asked a full federal appeals court to reconsider a three-judge panel’s ruling that private groups can’t sue under a key section of the federal Voting Rights Act. Circuit Court of Appeals after a panel ruled 2-1 last month that only the U.S. attorney general can enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights …

Arkansas AG rejects language for proposed ballot measure protecting access to government records
1 year ago

Arkansas AG rejects language for proposed ballot measure protecting access to government records

Associated Press  

— Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin on Monday rejected the language for a proposed ballot measure that would make access to government records and meetings a right protected in the state’s constitution. Griffin rejected the language for the proposed Arkansas Government Transparency Amendment, which would also make it more difficult for lawmakers to narrow access to public meetings and records. …

Arkansas Supreme Court upholds procedural vote on governor’s education overhaul
1 year, 2 months ago

Arkansas Supreme Court upholds procedural vote on governor’s education overhaul

Associated Press  

— The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the procedural vote that allowed Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ education overhaul to take effect immediately, rejecting a judge’s ruling that threw into question the way state laws have been fast-tracked into enforcement over the years. The state Supreme Court’s 6-1 decision has no effect on the education law that the Republican governor …

Iowa Republicans passed a strict abortion bill last night. A legal challenge was filed by morning
1 year, 5 months ago

Iowa Republicans passed a strict abortion bill last night. A legal challenge was filed by morning

Associated Press  

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa’s new ban on most abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy was challenged in court on Wednesday, launching what will likely be a lengthy and emotional legal battle just hours after the Legislature approved it in a late-night vote. The challenge, brought by the ACLU of Iowa, Planned Parenthood North Central States and the Emma …

Arkansas Supreme Court lifts order blocking governor’s education overhaul
1 year, 6 months ago

Arkansas Supreme Court lifts order blocking governor’s education overhaul

Associated Press  

— The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a judge’s ruling that temporarily blocked the state from enforcing Gov. In their 5-2 ruling, the court’s majority said the law’s opponents failed to prove the “irreparable harm” that would be caused if the law remained in effect. “Today’s Supreme Court decision is a huge win for parents, teachers, and most importantly …

This US state will build a monument for aborted foetuses. Here's why
1 year, 9 months ago

This US state will build a monument for aborted foetuses. Here's why

India Today  

Arkansas in the United States will build a monument to mark the abortions performed in the state before Roe v Wade was struck down last year. Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders approved the monument to aborted foetuses on Monday. The bill signed by Sanders allows the construction of a “monument to the unborn” near the state’s Capitol grounds, a report …

Lawsuit filed over new Arkansas law on initiative signatures
1 year, 9 months ago

Lawsuit filed over new Arkansas law on initiative signatures

Associated Press  

— A lawsuit was filed Friday challenging a new Arkansas measure that makes it harder to get initiatives on the ballot by raising the number of counties where signatures must be gathered. Republican state Sen. Bryan King and the League of Women Voters of Arkansas filed the lawsuit challenging the new restriction approved by the majority-GOP Legislature and signed by …

Arkansas House sends governor trans care malpractice bill
1 year, 9 months ago

Arkansas House sends governor trans care malpractice bill

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Under current Arkansas law, medical malpractice claims must be …

Arkansas House sends governor trans care malpractice bill
1 year, 9 months ago

Arkansas House sends governor trans care malpractice bill

Associated Press  

— The Arkansas House sent the GOP governor a bill Wednesday to make it easier to sue doctors who provide gender-affirming treatment to minors, moving to effectively reinstate the state’s blocked ban on such care. “Passing this bill says to one of our most vulnerable communities in the state that we don’t care about you,” Democratic Rep. Tippi McCullough, the …

Arkansas Senate OKs new requirement for ballot measures
1 year, 9 months ago

Arkansas Senate OKs new requirement for ballot measures

Associated Press  

— Proposed initiatives would face a new hurdle to qualifying for the Arkansas ballot under a measure lawmakers sent to the governor Monday that more than triples the number of counties where signatures must be gathered. Arkansas voters last year rejected a proposal the Legislature put on the ballot that would have required a 60% vote to approve ballot initiatives. …

2 States Introduce Radical Bills To Prosecute Pregnant People For Abortions
1 year, 11 months ago

2 States Introduce Radical Bills To Prosecute Pregnant People For Abortions

Huff Post  

A man scowls as he confronts an abortion-rights demonstrator in Little Rock, Arkansas. Gregory Smith via Getty Images Republicans in Arkansas and Oklahoma introduced bills this week that would allow authorities to criminally prosecute pregnant people for seeking abortion care. The Arkansas legislation would let the state’s homicide laws apply to aborted fetuses and give them due process protections, while …

Court won’t reconsider block of Arkansas trans care law
2 years, 1 month ago

Court won’t reconsider block of Arkansas trans care law

Associated Press  

— A federal appeals court said Wednesday it won’t reconsider its ruling temporarily blocking Arkansas from enforcing its ban on gender-affirming care for children. “Families across Arkansas are thankful the 8th Circuit has rejected the state’s effort to enforce this baseless and cruel law,” said Holly Dickson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas, which is challenging …

Column: Threats to criminalize out-of-state abortions are a scary reminder of 1850s America
2 years, 5 months ago

Column: Threats to criminalize out-of-state abortions are a scary reminder of 1850s America

LA Times  

Abortion rights supporters march to the White House to denounce the U.S. Supreme Court decision to end federal abortion rights protections on Saturday. With Roe vs. Wade overturned, law professors from three Pennsylvania universities observe in a draft paper, “we have already seen the beginnings of these battles.” Among the signposts is Texas’ infamous SB 8, an anti-abortion law that …

Arkansas governor defends abortion ban that makes no exception for rape or incest
2 years, 5 months ago

Arkansas governor defends abortion ban that makes no exception for rape or incest

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. Shortly after the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, officials …

In abortion fight, conservatives push to end all exceptions
2 years, 7 months ago

In abortion fight, conservatives push to end all exceptions

Associated Press  

BOISE, Idaho — Angela Housley was halfway through her pregnancy when she learned the fetus was developing without parts of its brain and skull and would likely die within hours or days of birth, if it survived that long. This is the law, You’re not going to have the opportunity to change it before people get hurt.’” Several other states, …

Arkansas judge won’t stay ruling striking down 4 voting laws
2 years, 8 months ago

Arkansas judge won’t stay ruling striking down 4 voting laws

Associated Press  

— An Arkansas judge said Tuesday that he will not stay his decision that struck down as unconstitutional four new voting laws approved by the Republican-led Legislature last year. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen denied Republican Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s motion for a stay of his permanent injunction earlier this month against the laws the Legislature approved last year. …

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