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SOURCE: The New Republic
4/21/2022
Will the Dems Use 14th Amendment to Punish States for Voting Rights Crackdowns?
Congress is entitled under the Amendment to strip states of representation if they don't maintain a republican form of government. Do proposed voting rights restrictions and other red-state legislation qualify?
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SOURCE: MSNBC
3/14/2022
An Attack on Voting Rights is an Attack on the Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer
by Keisha N. Blain
No one who learns the life story of Fannie Lou Hamer and the sacrifices she made for the right to vote can accept the current attacks on the Voting Rights Act.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/23/2022
Giving up on Voting Rights Legislation Would be Unconscionable
by E.J. Dionne
Democratic politicians and their allies must commit to fighting for voting rights and stronger safeguards to the electoral process despite the crushing defeat in the effort to reform the filibuster.
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SOURCE: Saturday Evening Post
1/14/2022
The Filibuster Protects the Powerful, Not Vulnerable Minorities
by Ben Railton
The regular use of the filibuster in the 20th century paralleled its use as a tool to frustrate the political goals of labor and civil rights activists.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
1/19/2022
Now or Never to Stop US Descent to Authoritarian Rule
by Thomas Zimmer
The Republican Party has operated on the core propositions that the Democratic opposition and its core constituencies are fundamentally illegitimate long before Donald Trump. Biden's victory shouldn't obscure how close they are to establishing permanent minority rule.
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SOURCE: Substack
1/17/2022
Of Course the Federal Government Can Regulate Elections
by Heather Cox Richardson
The Constitution not only enables, but requires the federal government to act when state authority violates the principles of democracy, something President Harry Truman realized in 1946.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/17/2022
Manchin and Sinema are Fulfilling John Roberts's Vision
by Ronald Brownstein
"Roberts, who served as a young clerk to conservative Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist and as a Justice Department assistant in the Reagan administration, has long expressed hostility to federal oversight of voting and election rules."
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SOURCE: Raleigh News & Observer
1/9/2022
NC GOP Carrying on Tradition of Muting the Black Vote
North Carolina's gerrymandered legislative and Congressional district maps were drawn without consideration to race, say state Republicans. But it's difficult to miss the parallel between the 1890s and today: a conservative bloc of white voters subverting the will of Black and progressive coalition, say James Leloudis and Robert Korstad.
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SOURCE: Aspen Institute and Craig Newmark Philanthropies
1/12/2022
The State of Democracy: Jan. 22, 2022 (Feat. Carol Anderson)
"One year after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, 92Y’s second annual State of Democracy Summit—co-presented with Aspen Digital—will explore the most important questions facing the country right now."
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SOURCE: WBUR
1/11/2021
Julian Zelizer Joins "Here and Now" to Discuss Biden Voting Rights Push
How will Biden deliver a planned speech on voting rights under the shadow of the filibuster? Will it sway reluctant Democrats like Manchin and Sinema?
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/11/2022
Biden to Endorse Changing Filibuster Rules for Voting Rights Legislation
The President is expected to endorse limited changes to the filibuster rules to enable a straight majority vote on voting rights legislation, while perserving the filibuster for other legislation.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
1/8/2022
A Racist 1890 Law Still Blocks Black Americans from Voting
Fewer than 200 Mississippians in the last 25 years have successfully petitioned for the restoration of their voting rights after felony convictions.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/17/2021
The Dangers of Compromise on Voting Rights
by Rachel Shelden
Are moderate Democrats seeking bipartisan support for voting rights legislation repeating the errors of the antebellum legislators who misunderstood the South's commitment to securing slavery at any cost including secession?
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SOURCE: CNN
12/16/2021
What 2021 Taught Us About Racial Justice Struggles
An interdisciplinary group of scholars including Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Angie Maxwell, and Andra Gillespie discuss the advances, setbacks and new battles in the struggle for justice in 2021.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/14/2021
When the Voter Fraud Myth Comes for You
Sustaining the "big lie" that Trump was robbed of re-election requires small lies, including investigating and prosecuting individuals to sustain the myth of widespread cheating. This explains Texas's prosecution of Crystal Mason for casting a provisional ballot that was never even counted.
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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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