We know for a certainty that the tide is turning against the Republican Party demographically speaking. And, as a result, we know that the Republican Party, in an effort to retain power, has been devoting more time, effort and resources to gerrymandering, voter suppression and other activities intended to prevent non-Republicans from voting, like continuing […]
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On a campaign stop in Michigan today, Elizabeth Warren calls for a constitutional amendment to end gerrymandering, get corporate money out of politics, and protect voting rights
Posted in Civil Liberties, cycle powered cinema, Detroit, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, 2020 census, census, Constitutional amendments, demographics, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Generation Z, gerrymandering, Millennials, racism, redistricting, Republican Party, shifting national demographics, the collapse of the Republican party, Thomas Hofeller, voter suppression, Voting Rights Act, young voters 106 Comments
Federal court rules that Michigan’s partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional
This is Michigan’s 12th congressional district, where I live. It didn’t always look like this. There was a time, prior to the Republican redistricting of 2001-2002, when the borders of the 12th district pretty much formed a square. But that changed in the wake of the 2000 census, when the Republican majority in Lansing took […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Denise Hood, Eric Clay, First Amendment, fourteenth amendment, gerrymandering, Gordon Quist, Jim Stamas, Jocelyn Benson, Ken Horn, Lana Theis, League of Women Voters, League of Women Voters of Michigan v. Benson, Michigan's 12th Congressional District, Proposal 2, special elections, voter suppression 3 Comments
Elizabeth Warren stopped on the floor of the Senate for attempting to read a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King about the civil rights record of Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions
Last night, on the floor of the United States Senate, Elizabeth Warren, in discussing the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, attempted to read a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King to the U.S. Judiciary Committee about the Senator’s history relative to civil rights. [Sessions, at the time, was in the running to […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Alabama, Attorney General, Coretta Scott King, Jeff Sessions, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, voter fraud 26 Comments