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Daily Beast: NAACP Says Racist Redistricting Aims to Silence Black Voters in North Carolina
“In 2023, the North Carolina General Assembly redrew its state legislative and congressional plans to severely diminish the voting power of North Carolina’s Black voters,” the lawsuit stated. “The General Assembly achieved this by...
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Detroit News: Redistricting commission will ‘consider its options’ after federal judges ordered a redraw
"We're glad to see all voices protected in our democratic process, especially Black Michiganders who have often been intentionally left out," Common Cause Michigan Executive Director Quentin Turner said in a Friday statement. "Despite the redraw, we believe independent commissions, and not legislators, are the best way to achieve fair maps. The voters should always be able to choose their elected leaders — not...
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Yahoo! News/The Hill: Lobbying World
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Associated Press/PBS: North Carolina’s election maps for 2024 are racially biased, advocates say in lawsuit
The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, Common Cause and eight Black residents filed a lawsuit in federal court. They accuse GOP legislative leaders of intentionally moving this fall boundary lines for General Assembly and congressional districts in part so that many Black voters...
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Georgia Public Broadcasting: Voting rights decision may curb push to diversify Georgia, Alabama utility commissions
“They may not directly know the jargon, but they do know what’s impacting them,” she said.
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Los Angeles Times/Tribune News: Environmentalists investing in Big Oil? Inside the surprising stock portfolios of California lawmakers
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Politico: Influence
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Virginia Kase Solomón Named Tenth President of Common Cause
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Public News Service: ‘Inclusive Democracy Act’ would expand ballot access for people in prison
Keshia Morris Desir, justice and mass incarceration project manager for the group, explained the bill, known as the Inclusive Democracy Act, would restore the right to vote in federal elections for individuals who are incarcerated or on probation and parole.
"What that does is help to disenfranchise the 4.6 million individuals that currently do not have access to the ballot box in federal elections," Morris Desir explained.
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Raw Story/The Hartmann Report: The Secret GOP Plot to Change our Constitution Slithers Forward
Please check them out, get on their mailing lists, and spread the word. This is one of those things that Republicans on the Court could use to seemingly spring out of nowhere and bring down our democracy once and for all.
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ProPublica: The Judiciary Has Policed Itself for Decades. It Doesn’t Work.
The conference told the lawmakers and Common Cause that the Financial Disclosure Committee would look into both issues.
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Baltimore Sun: ‘Sustained, egregious, and damaging to your reputation’: Baltimore County officials, residents criticize council chair for inspector general amendments
Joanne Antoine, the executive director of Common Cause Maryland and a member of the Blue Ribbon Commission, said Jones’ amendments were a “slap in the face” to everyone who had worked on the...