Backstabber Watch

Alabama Republicans have once again lost in court in a battle over redistricting as a panel of judges struck down its plan that would have diluted the influence of Black voters, NPR reported on Tuesday.

Republican legislatures have been imposing new restrictions on voting access, but new research suggests those laws aren't tilting the odds in their favor quite as much as feared.

Issue 1 is about powerful Republican politicians and lobbyists not trusting Ohioans. They don’t want a majority of voters to do anything they don’t like. They don’t want a majority of voters to be able to hold them accountable. 

Free and fair elections across America dodged a bullet this week. A fringe legal theory that former President Donald Trump’s supporters tried to use to help overturn the 2020 presidential election was put before a U.S. Supreme Court that, based on its recent conservative activism, seemed at least potentially apt to endorse it. It didn’t, and the 6-3 majority decision that included all three liberal justices and three conservatives was a sweeping repudiation of a truly dangerous proposition.