As President Trump Compromises Access to the Ballot Box, N.Y. Must Widen Participation
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Fighting for the Right to Vote in Louisiana
Residents with past criminal convictions are suing the state, arguing that a ban on voting for people on probation and parole goes farther than the state Constitution intended. -
The State of Redistricting Litigation (March 2017 edition)
The first two months of 2017 have brought an appeal in a major Wisconsin partisan gerrymandering case, a trial date in partisan gerrymandering cases in North Carolina, and a ruling reversing the decision of the trial court in a Virginia racial gerrymandering case. Read the round up of where these and other key redistricting cases currently stand. -
How to Spy on a President
If 140 characters designed to plunge the Obama administration into scandal can instead generate a long-overdue national conversation about surveillance authorities, we could all be better off for it. -
Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned: Your Smart TV is Spying On You
Don’t say we didn’t warn you about this one: your “smart” TV may be spying on you. Really. -
Annual Economics Conference Highlights Mass Incarceration
How America’s vast criminal justice system harms us all was spotlighted at the world’s largest meeting of economists. -
New Travel Ban, Same Poisonous Policy
Trump’s revised Muslim ban should fail for exactly the reason the first one did. -
Trump Overkill Could Shift Voter ID Tide
Republicans, Democrats and the president’s own lawyers have rebutted his claims of massive fraud -
A Muslim Ban By Any Other Name Smells Just the Same
Having made plain his intent, substituting in nominally neutral language doesn’t make Trump’s revised Muslim ban much better or much more likely to withstand judges’ scrutiny. -
How to Criticize a Judge
Where should we draw the line on Trump’s criticism of the courts?
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