Sen. Mike Seymour, a Republican from Vancleave, was the only person in the 52-member Senate who voted against all of the suffrage restoration bills. Reporters attempted to ask Seymour why he opposed ...
A House bill ordering North Carolina sheriffs and jailers to comply with federal immigration requests to hold an inmate ...
A federal judge ruled Tennessee needs to update its forms and process for voting rights restoration. The judge also found ...
“I couldn’t be happier!” exclaimed one of their coaches, Jackson Erpenback, “they did an amazing job. The Georgetown team is ...
Liberal-leaning civil rights groups dismiss worries about noncitizen voting ... a United States citizen can do.” She cast ...
The state Senate moved quickly to pass legislation requiring local sheriffs to hold people they arrest at the request of ...
While the U.S. Constitution doesn’t explicitly bar felons from serving as president, a number of states do restrict felons’ ...
The current suffrage restoration process in Mississippi requires a legislator to submit a bill on each person’s behalf.
A divided legislative committee on Wednesday delayed a vote on legislation that would give state inmates the right to to speak by video conference at their parole hearings.
The county is now facing a lawsuit over those ... representing us, we don’t have a voice at the table.” Redistricting experts expect more lawsuits under the new state voting rights acts ...
Former Republican staffer Carlton Huffman shared with us the ... the 1964 Voting Rights Act, the people that realize the struggles that preceded all of this." But many say those struggles persist.
While the U.S. Constitution doesn’t explicitly bar felons from serving as president, a number of states do restrict felons’ voting rights ... the trials are being held raises questions ...