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Common Cause and Over 200 Organizations Call on Senators to Delay Recess Until They Pass Voting Rights Legislation
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Common Cause Announces Washington D.C. Artist as Winner in 2021 “My Voice, My Art, Our Cause” Artivism Contest
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Charlotte Observer/McClatchy: Republicans get a win in an NC gerrymandering lawsuit, with two more cases looming
He said the group hasn’t decided if they’ll also join other lawsuits but he supports them, since he doesn’t want a repeat of last decade — when the 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018 elections were all held using maps that were later found to be...
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Daily Beast: Dark-Money Group Paid Former Trump AG to Ask for Pardons—and He Never Registered as a Lobbyist
“Other lobbyists tied to Trump have reported massive income lobbying the administration for pardons. Any failure by Whitaker to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars received to lobby the Trump administration warrants close...
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The Hill: The Hill’s Top Lobbyists 2021
The ranks of policy experts, influencers and advocates run deep in Washington, but these are the people who stand out for delivering results for their clients in the halls of Congress and the administration. ...
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Common Cause Urges “Yes” Vote to Extend STOCK Act to Federal Judges
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The Guardian: ‘A core threat to our democracy’: threat of political violence growing across US
“The threat of violence is really to intimidate people from doing their jobs and upholding their oath of office,” Spaulding said. “When you start having these violent episodes enter the system, it is totally counter to the way that we are supposed to engage in open and fair debate about policy issues in this country.”
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HuffPost: More States Expanded Voting Rights In 2021 Than Restricted Them
Previous attempts to pass legislation in Maryland simply to create a study of mail voting failed due to opposition in the state House of Delegates. But this year, both chambers adopted legislation to allow mail-in voting and approve the mailing of ballot applications to all registered voters.
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Roll Call: States create few new minority districts in redistricting so far
“This pattern, where groups like ours have to keep going to court every 10 years over maps that violate minority voting rights is just going to keep happening unless we get that action from Congress,” Gutierrez said.
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Bloomberg: RNC Paying Trump’s Legal Bill for N.Y. Probe of Real Estate Firm
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New York Times: As Gerrymanders Get Worse, Legal Options to Overturn Them Dwindle