Trump’s federal court appointees were virtually all white and all male, according to Andrew Cohen, Senior Editor for The Marshall Project and Brennen Center for Justice. And what do the Biden appointees look like? A much more diverse group in terms of race, ethnicity, and gender, as well as background experience. And a competent enough […]
Li: Reform redistricting before it’s too late
Michael Li, Senior Counsel of the Democracy Program of the Brennan Center for Justice, calls voting rights “The Infrastructure of Democracy”, and worries that the proposed voting rights act, which will work toward fair redistricting and representation of all people in upcoming elections is taking a backdoor to the current budget bills and may not […]
Li: Congress needs to act on gerrymandering NOW!
The state of Ohio, with almost an even split of Democrat and Republican voters, has 12 districts represented by Republican politicians and only 4 districts by Democrats, according to Michael Li, Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice. In his recent article “Stopping Gerrymandering Can’t Wait” he says you can’t out-organize against gerrymandering, a […]
Right attempts to limit representation of minorities
The conservative right has concerns: the Latino, Black, and Asian population of the U. S. is growing faster than the Caucasian population, and this means lost votes. Their solution, to propose changing who is counted for representation. Yurij Rudensky, Counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice Democracy, has authored a report “Representation for Some: The […]
Our digital data and our personal privacy
The 4th Amendment, protecting citizens from unreasonable search and seizures and providing a level of expectation of personal privacy, came about as a result of British control over the colonies. Today, with a myriad of technology in use and the desire of government to access this information, the “Carpenter Ruling” of 2018 put limits on […]
Proposed overhauls to Wisconsin’s elections part of national tre...
Last week, Wisconsin’s Republican lawmakers proposed sweeping overhauls to how the state conducts its elections. The six bills would change requirements for indefinitely confined voters, institute stricter voter ID laws and bar election funding from private organizations. Advocacy groups and Wisconsin’s Democratic legislators swiftly condemned the bills, saying that they were thinly veiled attempts at […]
