All posts tagged "Voter Rights"

The Supreme Court's likely rulings in its new term are "looming disasters" for voting laws and LGBTQ issues — but also pose a mystery, wrote Vox legal correspondent Ian Millhiser in an analysis Monday.

The mystery, writes Millhiser, is whether the conservative-majority court will strike down President Donald Trump's controversial tariffs regimen. The writer points out that the court had struck down several Biden policies on the basis that they were of "enormous economic and political significance."

"The tariffs are clearly illegal under a doctrine the Republican justices used to halt many of President Joe Biden’s policies," he writes....

A Donald Trump nominee for a lifetime federal judgeship to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri has a history of promoting a policy designed to prevent Black people from voting, HuffPost revealed.

Attorney Josh Divine has served since 2023 as Missouri’s Solicitor General and Director of Special Litigation. "He previously clerked for conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and served as chief counsel to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO)," according to the report.

As a student at the University of Northern Colorado in 2010, Divine wrote an opinion piece arguing that citizens "should be required to take literacy tests in order to vote — despite such tests being outlawed by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 because they were routinely used to keep Black people from voting," the report said....