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Arizona Doubles Down With More Race-Based Policies
The conservative line for those who bother to defend Arizona for their harsh immigration law is that the state merely wants to deal with a metastasizing problem in their backyard, and that the idea...
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Grijalva’s Yuma Office Closes Due to Gunshot on Chaotic First Day of...
The partial implementation of the Arizona immigration law, SB1070, began today in earnest, and already we’re seeing the friction between supporters and immigration rights advocates play out. Adam...
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Arpaio Cited By DoJ for Unconstitutional Policing
In a stinging report, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division released their findings of a two-year investigation into Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, showing that he unfairly targeted...
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DoJ Sues Joe Arpaio for Civil Rights Violations
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has filed suit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, alleging discriminatory police conduct against Latino citizens. Federal authorities allege that...
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Expect Civil Rights Challenges to Arizona “Papers Please” Provision
Just because the Supreme Court didn’t strike down the “papers please” provision in Arizona’s SB1070 before implementation doesn’t mean that the provision is in the clear. The Supreme Court gave...
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DoJ Continues Closing Cases, Ends One Investigation Into Arizona Sheriff Joe...
They must be clearing out filing cabinets at the Department of Justice. After ending their investigation into the deaths of detainees in CIA custody, they then wrapped up a separate investigation into...
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The Theft of Voting Rights in Arizona
What’s happening in Arizona right now, relatively under the radar in the traditional media (with a few notable exceptions), approaches the kind of thing you’d expect out of a banana republic. The...
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Wisconsin Republicans to Force Through Redistricting Before Final Recall...
How quickly things flip. Even as Mitch McConnell tries to negotiate the terms of Republican surrender on the debt limit, in Wisconsin, where a series of recall primary elections take place today,...
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Wisconsin Republicans Trying to Fast-Track New Maps for Additional Senate...
We’re about a week or so away from when activists in Wisconsin can start gathering petitions for recall elections of certain state Senators with a year in office, as well as Governor Scott Walker. And...
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Wisconsin GOP Loses One Round in Preventing Additional Recall Elections
I wrote last week about how Wisconsin Republicans were trying to game upcoming Senate recall elections by instituting newly gerrymandered maps into the process. The switcheroo would require legislative...
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Arizona GOP Impeaches Independent Redistricting Commissioner
Arizona has an independent redistricting commission, initiated by a vote of the people in 2000. The commission, by statute, includes two Democrats, two Republicans and one independent. This year the...
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SCOTUS Texas Redistricting Case Could Challenge Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court hears a case today on Texas redistricting maps that could pose a challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which forces states with a history of discrimination to pre-clear...
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Rumors of a Settlement in Texas Redistricting Fight
The Texas redistricting mess, which with a Supreme Court ruling looked to be moving in the direction of Republicans, could bounce back. The SCOTUS only ruled on which interim maps to use while a...
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Ohio Provisional Ballots Case a Win for Voting Rights Activists, but...
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has delivered one of the last remaining blows to voter suppression efforts across the country. And this one cements the near-clean sweep for voting rights advocates...
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The Lasting Impact of 2010 Election: Redistricting Cementing Republican House...
Whether you think that Democrats lost the House and a majority of state legislatures in 2010 because of a lack of improvement in the economy, the natural cycle of out-party gains in a midterm election,...
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Gerrymander, SuperPAC Cash Saved GOP’s Bacon in the House, Where They Got...
Just a brief postscript to the House elections, which as I said were really decided in Republican state legislatures in 2011 during the redistricting process. It turns out that, on a vote-by-vote...
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Republicans Devise Electoral Vote-Rigging Scheme
The asymmetry in the ways Democrats and Republicans use power can be seen in their responses to Electoral College disadvantages. When Democrats are faced with an Electoral College gap such that their...
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With all their accumulated wealth sitting around they need to find new ways of increasing their portfolios. Since their is no real risk to investing if you are a billionaire because your Government...
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Wisconsin Republicans to Force Through Redistricting Before Final Recall...
How quickly things flip. Even as Mitch McConnell tries to negotiate the terms of Republican surrender on the debt limit, in Wisconsin, where a series of recall primary elections take place today,...
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