#vra — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vra, aggregated by home.social.
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✊The Voting Rights Act is one of the most consequential civil rights achievements in our nation’s history. It helped dismantle discriminatory barriers designed to keep Black Americans from exercising their fundamental right to vote.
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Their Loved Ones Died to Give Us the Voting Rights Act. They Have a Message for the Supreme Court.
One of the simplest and most immediate steps Americans can take regain control of their rights is to simply vote and force accountability on politicians. “Otherwise, you sit there and moan and groan and don’t vote. They’re going to do what they want,”
Paywall free version https://archive.ph/vNuUe
#VRA #Voting #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #Slavery #JimCrow #CivilRights #CivilRightsAct #SupremeCourt #constitution #USconstitution #Callais
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Noncitizen voting is already illegal under federal #law & incredibly rare.
All in all this was a great big nothing burger.
#Trump #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VRA #USpol #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy
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“Our country has to shape up,” #Trump said, calling it a “big announcement.”
“It doesn’t get bigger,” he added, “because without free & fair elections, you don’t have a country.”
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #VRA #elections #USpol #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy
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#Trump says he will discuss #elections security & #VotingMachines in an address to the country Thursday night, a likely escalation in his gaslighting efforts to suggest that #US election results cannot be trusted.
Trump has repeatedly described US voting systems as corrupt & vulnerable, despite the fact that he won 2 presidential elections.…
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #VRA #USpol #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/16/us/trump-news#trump-speech-voting-elections -
Juan Gualberto Gomez International Airport - Matanzas, Cuba
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Birthdays are for kids.
I don’t think the #US needs a sad drunk clown. Oh yeah, right, they elected one.
#Trump isn’t a “drunk”, but he is constantly wired on Adderall.
Still, after you’re old enough to #vote or drink, nobody gives a shit.
I guess that means the US should’ve stopped having birthday parties in 1965, when Black women were finally allowed to vote under the #VotingRightsAct.
I guess this should be a day of mourning, as #JohnRoberts’ #SCOTUS has made gutting the #VRA a priority.
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"Lani Guinier’s views on proportional representation were called 'dangerous' because she challenged the structures of power, and she did so in a way that would particularly benefit Black voters—the canaries in the coal mine—as well as other marginalized groups. But history has a way of vindicating these transformative ideas, from abolition to women’s suffrage to marriage equality. But this vindication can only happen if we are willing to think more radically today."
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/proportional-representation-black-vote/#
#VotingRights #VRA #Callais #ProportionalRepresentation #BlackVotersMatter
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But #Trump torched that plan in his social media post early Wednesday morning, just hours before Clayton was scheduled to have a confirmation hearing before the #Senate #Intelligence Committee. He said he would delay the proceedings, all but guaranteeing that #BillPulte would take the job at the end of this week as the acting director of national intelligence [#DNI].
#VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #elections #Constitution #democracy #VoterSuppression #TrumpCoup #Trump
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#Trump said Wednesday that he would seek to delay the #Senate confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton his nominee for director of national intelligence [#DNI], as he renewed pressure on #Congress to pass a #voting restrictions bill — a strict voter identification #law that does not have enough support among #Republicans to advance.
#VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #elections #Constitution #democracy #VoterSuppression #TrumpCoup
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/us/politics/senate-intelligence-nomination-voter-restrictions.html?smid=url-share&smid=nytcore-ios-share&rsrc=cl-share -
Since #SCOTUS’ April ruling, largely #white #Republican-led legislatures across the #South have moved to dismantle #Black political #power at stunning speed, breaking apart voting blocs at the urging of a failing president desperate to keep control of #Congress in this fall’s midterm #elections.
#RepresentationMatters #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #law #ElectionLaw #ActivistCourt #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #VRA #redistricting #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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In more recent years, an increasingly ideological #SCOTUS began issuing rulings that weakened the #VRA. On April 29, SCOTUS’ 6–3 conservative majority eviscerated much of what was left of the #law, effectively saying that the #legislation Americans marched, bled & died for decades ago was no longer necessary. Congressional maps that diminish the #Black #vote are now acceptable, acc/to the court, so long as state lawmakers *say* they are drawing them on the basis of partisan advantage & not race.
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A Shocking Betrayal of #Black Americans
by Mara Gay
The dismantling of Black political #power in the South is a great betrayal, & its effects will ripple through our #democracy.
#RepresentationMatters #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #law #ElectionLaw #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #VRA #redistricting #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/opinion/voting-rights-act-black-voters-south.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oVA.qSCM.vEpY9cDXlL3Z&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
They need you home.
1 in 3 of us oblige.
The people pulling the maps apart are counting on exactly that. Stop obliging.
#VRA - They Need You Home https://blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/06/01/vra-they-need-you-home/ #labor
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#Louisiana Approves Map Eliminating a Majority #Black District
Louisiana lawmakers gave final approval on Friday to a new congressional map that would eliminate 1 of the state’s 2 majority-Black districts, making it the second Southern state to draw & approve carving out such a district since #SCOTUS weakened the #VotingRightsAct last month.
#law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VRA #Trump #BigLie #ActivistCourt #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #redistricting #gerrymandering
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/politics/louisiana-redistricting-map-majority-black-district.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
As expected, #Alabama asks #SCOTUS to allow use of congressional map helping GOP, despite Federal Appeals Court unanimously ruling it is racially biased
#law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VRA #RepresentationMatters #redistricting #gerrymandering #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-alabama-redistricting-congress-elections-d41988d640f26714a52d2c18271af05e -
The political drama in #SouthCarolina is part of a #Republican strategy—propelled by #Trump — to redraw voting districts to the #GOP’s advantage in an attempt to hold on to a slim #House majority in the #midterms. #Republicans have been moving quickly to try to leverage a recent #SCOTUS ruling that weakened minority protections under the federal #VotingRightsAct.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #ElectionLaw #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
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Some senators said it was simply too late to make a change.
“#SouthCarolina citizens are going to the polls today. And neither my conscience or common sense is going to let me stop an #election that is already underway,” #Republican state Sen. Richard Cash said.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #ElectionLaw #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #SCOTUS #Trump
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Republican-Appointed Judges Just Gave the Roberts Court a Stunning Rebuke – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/alabama-callais-redistricting-gerrymandering/
> A federal judicial panel strikes down an Alabama voting map the justices recently green lit.
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Great news! #SouthCarolina Senate rejects #Trump call to redraw congressional maps
As early in-person voting began Tuesday in South Carolina’s primaries, the state Senate rejected a #Republican plan to #cancel those congressional votes & instead schedule a new primary under revised districts designed to help the #GOP oust the powerful #Democrat #JamesClyburn.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #ElectionLaw #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-congress-voting-rights-trump-6d2daecd387cc0ad1dd56e94f621eda5 -
If the case makes it to #SCOTUS, it will be the first major test of the high court’s new standard for challenging congressional maps. The lower court judges made clear that they had reviewed the arguments through the lens of the Supreme Court’s #VotingRightsAct ruling last month but maintained that the state’s map failed under the new standard by intentionally discriminating against #Black voters.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #WhiteSupremacy #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #Trump
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The ruling further confuses the electoral landscape across the #South, as #Republican-led legislatures have raced to implement new district lines after #SCOTUS narrowed the #VotingRightsAct of 1965. It also demonstrates how the ruling from the nation’s highest court has further muddled how lower courts interpret the landmark #CivilRights #law.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #ElectionLaw #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #Trump
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#Alabama’s AG, Steve Marshall, said he would immediately appeal to #SCOTUS, which last month ruled that a #Louisiana congressional map drawn to create 2 majority-#Black House districts was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Gov Kay Ivey, a Republican, has already set special primaries in August in 4 #House districts that would be affected by her state’s new congressional map.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #Trump
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Court Rejects #Alabama #House Map, Calling It Unfair to #Black Voters
The Alabama #Republican led legislature, Governor & AG are likely to appeal the ruling, which stops an effort to use a new congressional map that would likely cost #Democrats a majority-Black district.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #ElectionLaw #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #SCOTUS #Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/politics/alabama-congress-map-redistricting.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
In a letter sent to >250 companies, members of the #BlackCaucus urge them to condemn the #redistricting efforts, which the lawmakers describe as “coordinated efforts to silence #Black voices at the ballot box.” Some of the #corporations had co-signed their own message to #Congress 5 years ago urging lawmakers to pass the #JohnLewis #VotingRightsAct, a Democratic proposal to restore & update the #VRA.
#CBC #VotingRights #RacialJustice #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #election #RepresentationMatters
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The #CongressionalBlackCaucus on Tuesday called on major #corporations across the #US, including those that previously expressed support for #VotingRights & #RacialJustice, to oppose #redistricting efforts by #Republican led states that seek to eliminate majority-#Black US #House districts.
#law #ElectionLaw #midterms #election #RepresentationMatters #BlackCaucus #Congress #JohnLewis #VotingRightsAct #VRA
https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-black-caucus-voting-rights-corporations-a8a89bcc64ba1b074289c1ee606485fc -
@8petros @metacurity @aral @Strandjunker
Paulo Freire once wrote that "no sincere investigation of justice can avoid an honest look at injustice."
This administration has given us the most unflinching look at injustice this country has seen since the Civil War. We know what we have to do.
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GOP Gerrymandering Is Erasing the South’s Black Voters https://otherwords.org/gop-gerrymandering-is-erasing-the-souths-black-voters/
This systematic assault against the voting power of Black people is a deliberate attempt to deny them political representation and silence their voices.