Category: Freedom to Vote

District Court Block of Executive Order for USPS Citizenship Verification Now Nationwide; DOJ Asks SCOTUS to Quickly Overturn the Ruling

In late June, a federal district court issued a temporary injunction preventing the U.S. Postal Service from implementing President Trump’s plan to have the USPS verify citizenship for mail-in voters. The injunction applied only to the 23 states which challenged Trump’s order, but August 11th, that injunction was expanded nationwide.
The Supreme Court’s Callais Decision Likely to Take Down Another Majority-Minority District, This Time Impacting Native Americans

The Supreme Court’s Callais Decision Likely to Take Down Another Majority-Minority District, This Time Impacting Native Americans

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Callais decision has crippled the 1965 Voting Rights Act Section 2, allowing state legislatures to erase formerly court-mandated majority minority voting districts. African American districts were devastated, but the Eighth Circuit just vacated a previously-upheld fair map for Native American voters in North Dakota.