Early this month, a plethora of voter suppression bills were introduced by members of the North Carolina Legislature.
EDITORIAL NOTE: This blog post was originally published on the The Huffington Post.
Last week, the League partnered with fellow voting and civil rights partner/groups to host a tweetchat on the critical voting rights case, Arizona v.
Voting rights have been under attack in state legislatures across the country for more than a decade and there are no signs of it letting up in 2013. Indeed 2013 could be a year that sets back voting rights more than all of the attacks of the past decade combined.
With Thanksgiving just a week away and the movie “Lincoln” opening in theaters tomorrow, we might do well to remember that the first Thanksgiving was proclaimed by Abraham Lincoln at a time when our country was embroiled in civil war over whether all Americans were really created equal.
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November 9, 2012 kceballos@lwv.org
Supreme Court Set to Review Voting Rights Act
