Tag: john lewis
In Selma, Joe Biden says right to vote remains under assault
President Joe Biden used the searing memories of Selma’s “Bloody Sunday” to recommit to a cornerstone of democracy, lionizing a seminal moment from the...
House passes bill bolstering landmark voting law
House Democrats have passed legislation that would strengthen a landmark civil rights-era voting law weakened by the Supreme Court over the past...
Joe Biden marks ‘Bloody Sunday’ by signing voting rights order
A new executive order from President Joe Biden directs federal agencies to take a series of steps to promote voting access, a move that comes...
Supreme Court could put new limits on voting rights lawsuits
Eight years after carving the heart out of a landmark voting rights law, the Supreme Court is looking at putting new limits on efforts to...
Georgia audit to trigger hand recount of presidential vote
Georgia's secretary of state on Wednesday announced an audit of presidential election results that he said will trigger a full hand recount.
Secretary of State...
Biden works to push Black turnout in campaign’s final days
Joe Biden was spending the final days of the presidential campaign appealing to Black supporters to vote in-person during a pandemic that has disproportionally...
Barack Obama, in scathing Donald Trump rebuke, warns democracy on the...
Even in the heat of campaigns, former presidents are typically more restrained than other politicians in their criticisms of a sitting president.
Gilbert mayor resigns, joins Martha McSally’s reelection campaign
Jenn Daniels was announced as one of four Maricopa County chairs for Republican U.S. Sen. Martha McSally’s reelection campaign.
Donald Trump floats idea of election delay, a virtual impossibility
The date of the presidential election is enshrined in federal law and would require an act of Congress to change.
Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis lies in state at Capitol
In a solemn display of bipartisan unity, congressional leaders praised Democratic Rep. John Lewis as a moral force for the nation on Monday in...
