NC Voters Will Use Gerrymandered Maps This Fall
The maps have been struck down, but a court said there isn’t time before the election to draw new ones. Voters will be the losers.
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How Trump’s Pressure on Google Threatens Government Manipulation of Search Results
As governments find new ways to influence tech companies, all of us who find our information online and use social media platforms must pull in the opposite direction so that we maintain access to a range of sources and views and have true opportunities to express ourselves online. -
Here’s How Brett Kavanaugh Will Push SCOTUS to the Right
We’re likely to get a high court that makes it easier to get a gun and harder to get an abortion, that aids Trump’s efforts to stonewall the Mueller investigation, and that worsens the influence of big money and partisan manipulation in our elections. -
What We Know About the Money Behind Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Fight
Before senators ask Judge Brett Kavanaugh a single question in his confirmation hearings this week, the debate over his nomination to the Supreme Court will have already been playing out for weeks in TV ads. -
When It Comes to the Laws of Democracy, the Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Often Abandons Its Own Core Principles. Will Brett Kavanaugh Do the Same?
At Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, senators should cut through all the gauzy rhetoric about “originalism” and “judicial restraint” and press him on what he actually believes. It’s their only chance. -
Partisan Gerrymandering Returns to the Supreme Court
Meanwhile, no one is sure what North Carolina’s map for House districts will look like for the November election -
Americans’ Privacy at Stake as Second Circuit Hears Hasbajrami FISA Case
Courts are on a dangerous constitutional path — it’s time for a course correction -
Federal Election Security Grants Don’t Go Far Enough
Far more funding is needed to improve election security in the states -
The Free Press Aren’t ‘Enemies of the People’
The phrase has an ignominious history. Why does Trump keep using it? -
Wrongful Convictions
Why they happen, and why they can be so hard to fix.
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