Sentences with phrase «courting black voters»

I am hearing through the grapevine that he is courting Black voters — though my instincts tell me that there is little in his background, business or political that would give us any reason to believe in him.»

Hacked emails from the personal account of Hillary Clinton's top campaign official show some of the attention her team paid to courting black voters.

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Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court that the Alabama Legislature and the federal court that ruled on the plan had taken a «mechanically numerical» view, instead of trying to figure out what percentage of black voters were needed to elect a candidate of their choice.

Trump did not elaborate on how exactly he thought the election would be rigged, though he did make mention of his displeasure that a federal court had struck down a North Carolina voter ID law that the court said was specifically aimed at disenfranchising black voters.

In a seeming disconnect during his courting of black voters, Trump called for the broad use of the contentious stop - and - frisk policing strategy in America's cities, embracing an aggressive tactic whose legality has been challenged and whose enforcement has been abandoned in New York.

A federal court struck down North Carolina's voter identification law for precisely that reason, alleging the Republicans who crafted it targeted black voters «with almost surgical precision.»

August 27, 2016 • Donald Trump has shifted his message to more actively court minority voters — including a recent meeting with black and Latino supporters.

Shugerman also notes that in the early 1970s, when Tennessee and Florida became the only Southern states to use merit selection to choose their supreme courts, both states had seen «the most progress in registering black voters.»

Professor Jed Shugerman's history of judicial elections, «The People's Courts,» discussed how a few Southern states moved from judicial elections to merit selection in response to black voters regaining some power from 1950 to the early 1970s.

Last year, a federal court ruled that the 2013 voting law also discriminated against Black voters, targeting them with «almost surgical precision.»