by Thomas Mills | Jun 2, 2021 | Editor's Blog, Voting Rights |
Yesterday, a group of 100 scholars issued a statement saying that our democracy is at risk. This weekend, Texas tried to pass a voter suppression law that would restrict access to the ballot and allow officials to overturn election results based on accusations of...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 27, 2020 | Editor's Blog
One party clearly wants to disenfranchise voters. Republicans in numerous states are fighting to prevent boards of elections from counting votes that were cast on or before election day. North Carolina is one of those states. Republicans here want to stop the state...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 6, 2019 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
Now that the Congressional districts have been settled we know one thing for almost certain: all of the races will be decided in March. Short of a tectonic shift in our politics, Republicans will hold eight seats and Democrats five. The makeup of our Congressional...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 1, 2019 | Editor's Blog
When a panel of state judges threw out the Congressional districts in North Carolina last week, we heard a familiar refrain from a lot of Republicans. They claimed the state courts were defying the Supreme Court. That argument is bunk. In reality, the Supreme Court...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 30, 2019 | Editor's Blog
On Monday, the three-judge panel hearing North Carolina’s redistricting cases handed down two consequential decisions in the span of a few minutes. The first upheld the new legislative maps drawn by the general assembly. The second required the legislature to draw new...
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