Seems to be, but overzealous Republican state legislators steamrolling new congressional maps onto baffled voters may end up in a world of hurt.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Mifepristone Wars—and What They Mean for Black Women
Still concentrated in Southern states that ban abortion, Black women disproportionately rely on telehealth, which the Supreme Court has allowed—provisionally—to continue.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Hawaii Just Found a Way to Keep Corporations Out of Politics
A new law makes clear that corporations derive their powers from states, and they don’t necessarily include the right to spend on elections.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Trump’s Appalling Racial Legacy
The Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act has cemented President Trump’s legacy in erasing civil rights and equal opportunity.
Posted inTAP
The Court’s Ruling Unleashed a Torrent of Race-Based Pro-White Gerrymandering
In the heart of the Old South, compact majority-Black districts are being supplanted by elongated majority-white ones.
Posted inLaw and Justice
John Roberts Is Starting to Sweat
The reactionary hacks on the Supreme Court might have gone too far this time.
Posted inTAP
The Court Didn’t Just Disenfranchise Blacks. It Also Disenfranchised Cities.
The Republican redistrictings strip cities of congressional representation.
Posted inPodcasts
Organized Money: The Conservative Who Torments Big Business
We are faced with corporate power so vast it spawned a conservative antitrust movement.
Posted inLaw and Justice
History Teaches: Reproductive Rights and Equality
A court in Pennsylvania gets it right, and the Fifth Circuit gets it wrong.
Posted inTAP
The Mifepristone Ruling Revives Pro-Choice Politics
A federal court’s ban on the mailing of abortion medication once again demonstrates the unpopularity of anti-abortion zealotry.