voting rights

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/1/2021
  

  The Last, Best Chance to Bolster Democracy May Have Passed

  by Perry Bacon, Jr.

  Thomas Zimmer offers insight on the growing commitment of the Republican Party to lock in one-party rule wherever they can. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/16/2021
  

  U. of Florida Dean Says He Was Directed to Reject Professor’s Request to Testify Against the State

  by Emma Pettit

  His remarks suggest that the decision to bar professors from testifying against the state may have come from the top of UF. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  11/8/2021
  

  Despite Administration Reversal, Faculty Suit against U of Florida Goes Forward

  The professors claim that while the adminstration reversed itself as a matter of discretion, its "unconstituitonal" policy on conflicts of interest remains in place and threatens faculty's First Amendment rights. 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  11/5/2021
  

  UF Reverses Course; Profs can Testify in Voting Rights Suit

  Attorneys representing the professors said they were still planning to move forward with a lawsuit against the university.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/2/2021
  

  Restrictions on Faculty Testimony at UF Included Non-Paid Testimony, COVID Protocol

  The University's prior explanation, that faculty are free to serve as witnesses to litigation against the state on a pro-bono basis on their own time, appears to be contradicted by efforts to stop a pediatrics professor from testifying pro bono in favor of school mask mandates.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/1/2021
  

  The Attack on University of Florida Professors is Totalitarian

  by Silke-Maria Weineck

  Even beyond academic freedom, events in Florida signal the effort to tie the interests of the state's universities to the agenda of the state's ruling party. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/1/2021
  

  U. of Florida’s Accreditor Will Investigate Denial of Professors’ Voting-Rights Testimony

  The University of Florida had told three faculty members that their work as consultants for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state's restrictive new voting laws are "adverse to the university's interests"; will this affect the school's accreditation as a violation of the institution's independence?

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• SOURCE: Prospect Magazine
  9/23/2021
  

  The New Front in the War for Voting Rights

  by Jim Zirin

  The 15th Amendment empowers Congress to enforce the amendment and the right to vote with "appropriate legislation." With Republicans committed to vote suppression, the Democrats must act unilaterally.   

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/26/2021
  

  These Restrictions Wouldn't have Passed Muster Before the Roberts Court Destroyed the Voting Rights Act

  Election law experts agree that a host of new state laws would have failed the Justice Department's preclearance requirements under the pre-Shelby Voting Rights Act. 

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• SOURCE: AFRO News
  8/21/2021
  

  What Gloria Richardson Taught Me

  by Joseph R. Fitzgerald

  The late Gloria Richardson's career as an organizer, activist, and thinker in the Black Freedom movement hold lessons for how Congressional Democrats can and must advance new voting rights protections. 

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• SOURCE: Atlanta
  8/10/2021
  

  Latest Installment of Graphic Format Memoir of John Lewis Deals with Ongoing Legacy

  A conversation with Andrew Aydin, John Lewis's former aide and collaborator on "Run," the hit graphic format memoir, discusses the legacy of the activist and congressman. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/1/2021
  

  Are the Democrats About to Repeat Mistakes that Led to Jim Crow?

  If Democrats won't go all out to protect the franchise for their most loyal constituencies, how can they expect to govern? The history of the Jim Crow south suggests they won't, according to historian Richard White. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2021
  

  Bouie: Manchin and Sinema Have Their History Wrong

  Bipartisan support for 1960s civil rights legislation was an artifact of a fleeting moment of ideological diversity within the two parties. When it comes to voting and civil rights laws, partisan polarization has been the historical norm, and it's nothing to fear now when ballot access is at risk across the nation.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  7/21/2021
  

  How America Lost the Commitment to the Right to Vote

  "The Supreme Court, Justice Elena Kagan lamented in a dissenting opinion earlier this month, 'has treated no statute worse' than the Voting Rights Act. She’s right."

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• 7/18/2021
  

  The 1906 Decision in Hodges v. United States Shows the Error of Leaving Fundamental Rights to the States

  by William H. Pruden III

  The Court ruled that the 13th Amendment did not create a federal right to fairly contracted labor, and called for Black workers to "take their chances with other citizens in the states where they should make their homes," despite the plain determination of those citizens to oppress and expolit them.

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• SOURCE: Southern Spaces
  7/12/2021
  

  Undoing the Voting Rights Act

  by Steve Suitts

  Samuel Alito ventured far from the legislative intent of Congress's 1982 update to the Voting Rights act, making it much more difficult to challenge restrictive state voting laws. 

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• SOURCE: Election Law Blog
  7/1/2021
  

  Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court on 6-3 Vote Rejects Voting Rights Act Section 2 Case in Brnovich Case— A Significant Weakening of Section 2

  by Rick Hasen

  "The conservative Supreme Court has taken away all the major available tools for going after voting restrictions. This at a time when some Republican states are passing new restrictive voting law."

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  6/5/2021
  

  There’s Less Than Two Years to Save American Democracy

  Voting Rights scholar Ari Berman discusses the past, present, and future of the ballot, and the parallels between the overthrow of Reconstruction-era voting rights and today's proposals to empower state legislatures and suppress the vote. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  5/28/2021
  

  Eleanor Holmes Norton’s Long, Lonely Fight to Gain DC Voting Rights

  Eleanor Holmes Norton has always advocated for DC statehood and full representation in Congress, but today places a higher priority on comprehensive voting rights legislation. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  5/17/2021
  

  Our 250-Year Fight for Multiracial Democracy

  The 1829 Virginia Constitutional Convention offers a lens onto the profoundly anti-democratic views held by many of the founding generation. We deal with the same hostility toward majority rule today.