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States Declare Independence From Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission

Some states laws just flatly prohibit release of some of the information. Guess which state prohibits the release of voters’ Social Security information? Kris Kobach’s Kansas.
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- July 6, 2017
The Purge: Ten Years Later?

The Justice Department quietly sent letters to states demanding to know procedures for maintaining voter registration lists. The letters could be the first step in an effort to force states to conduct voter purges.
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- June 30, 2017
How The Supreme Court Botched the Muslim Ban Ruling

It was a mistake for the court to allow even part of the ban to go into effect, disregarding the harm that religious discrimination inflicts on Americans, not just Muslim visa applicants.
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- June 27, 2017
Bipartisan Efforts on Criminal Justice Reform Continue

A bill that would give federal judges more discretion in sentencing was immediately resurrected by lawmakers after Attorney General Jeff Sessions returned the Justice Department to archaic, “tough-on-crime” policies of the past.
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- June 27, 2017
Jeff Sessions Isn’t Making America Safer. He Might Be Making It More Dangerous.

Sessions’s directive goes far beyond reason and risks reigniting the same, misguided “war on drugs” that brought the nation’s criminal justice system to this crisis point, without doing anything to enhance public safety.
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- June 27, 2017
POST Act Hearing Round-Up

Here are a few key moments from the June 14 hearing, which began with 9/11 and wound its way to a remarkable rebuke of the City Council’s role in oversight of the NYPD.
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- June 21, 2017
Tax Returns Aren't Enough

The information in President Trump’s returns wouldn’t be enough to quell concerns about his finances.
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- June 26, 2017
How This Supreme Court Case Will Affect the Next Election

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear argument this fall in a potentially landmark partisan-gerrymandering case from Wisconsin.
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- June 22, 2017
Supreme Court Has Historic Chance to End Extreme Gerrymandering

The Supreme Court, which has decided to hear a landmark case on whether Wisconsin electoral maps were unconstitutionally drawn, could deliver a major blow to ultra-partisan redistricting.
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- June 21, 2017
Small Donor Tax Credits Would Boost Parties

This week, the Brennan Center proposed a new tool to strengthen both parties — an easy-to-claim tax credit for small political contributions.
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- June 20, 2017