Sentences with phrase «for voter rights»
She was elected vice chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, attended the 1964 Democratic Convention, and continued to be a voice for voter rights for the remainder of her life.
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«Senator Sessions has long advocated for state sovereignty, and we look forward to working with him to ensure that states» rights and voter choices on cannabis are respected.»
Not only do the political «left» and «right» have almost contradictory prognoses for the problems of stagnation or slow growth, but they also have to appeal to the almost randomly varying desires and priorities of the voters they represent.
The nomination of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General is worrisome but court battles over states» rights and decisive voter support for legal cannabis make tough enforcement problematic for the Trump Administration.
The loss of that clause, which liberals had seen as a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights movement, makes it easier for states to adopt voting laws that can have an adverse impact on minority voters.
As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.
Lawmakers and advocates expressed concern Friday that Sessions could sideline or undo the Obama administration's civil rights efforts, which have included investigations of police departments for unconstitutional practices and lawsuits meant to protect the rights of transgender individuals and black voters.
Advocates hope voters target lawmakers who have pushed for measures that hurt immigrants and replace them with immigrant - friendly policymakers, said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles.
Is the brand creating the right feelings for the voters / customers?
In 1912 the civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois endorsed Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson for President and asked black voters to get behind Wilson's candidacy.
Kansas Democrats hoping to turn voter discontent into an upset picked civil rights attorney Jim Thompson to run for the U.S. House seat that Mike Pompeo vacated to become CIA director under President Donald Trump.
In 2016, Alabama voters approved adding right - to - work to its state constitution, shoring up a provision that has been on the books in Alabama for decades.
The nomination of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General is worrisome but court battles over states» rights and decisive voter support for legal cannabis make tough enforcement problematic for the Trump Ad...
Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.
If Kenney doesn't follow the lead of Brown, his fellow social conservative caucus colleague, it likely signals one of two things: he does want the support of voters for whom parental rights regarding their pre-adolescents and teens are a big issue; or that he's calculated that a softening of his image would show weakness and isn't worth it, because his party has such a comfortable edge over Notley that he can afford to lose voters wary of anything resembling social conservatism.
Nix shows how psychographically categorized voters can be differently addressed, based on the example of gun rights, the 2nd Amendment: «For a highly neurotic and conscientious audience the threat of a burglary — and the insurance policy of a gun.»
The party's influence on the political debate will probably encourage establishment parties to court NF voters by adopting some of its proposals, including on immigration — for the center - right — and opposition to fiscal rigor — for the Socialists.
Thank you to Voters Taking Action on Climate Change, Communities and Coal, Ecojustice, and the Cities of Surrey and New Westminster for fighting for what's right.
The hard - right Alternative for Germany (AfD) becomes the third - largest group in the national parliament, the Bundestag, as German voters delivered a stinging blow to the traditional parties.
Religion News Service: Black pastors move to counter new voter ID laws African - American clergy are joining forces with civil rights groups to push for increased voter registration ahead of the November election, spurred on by new voter laws they say restrict opportunities for minorities to enter the voting booth.
It was the speech of a guy running for President and who is serious about enacting center - right reforms (and that includes being serious about winning over swing - voters to a responsible center - right agenda.)
Sounds like what the Republicans are doing in this country by pruning the voter rolls, making it harder to register to vote, and making it harder for people to find the right voting place.
*********************************** One would hope that voters were casting their ballots on the basis of what they conclude is best for a civil society and a pluralistic population, not on the more egocentric opinions they may have about right or wrong that are derived from their religious beliefs.
How funny... he managed to pause right at the exit of the church door... for all the world to see him... in a perfectly orchestrated photo shoot... 45 days before voters go to the voting booth.
'» He denounced a proposed ruling by the IRS against non-profits publishing voters guides for «interfering with our First Amendment rights.»
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN)- The ex-wife of a Republican politician alleges her then - husband asked if they could have an open marriage, so evangelical «values voters» rethink their support for him, right?
But it turned out that, for many Republican voters, it was more important that his heart seemed to be in the right place.
In March, the Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life saw a first in its ten years of polling: the largest group of voters in its survey, 38 %, said that politicians are talking about religion «too much» right now.
The only benefit all of these babies will have to the Christian right is providing more ignorant voters who don't even know how to properly advocate and vote for themselves, politically.
Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.
An August 2010 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that nearly half of Tea Party supporters (46 %) had not heard of or did not have an opinion about «the conservative Christian movement sometimes known as the religious right»; 42 % said they agree with the conservative Christian movement and roughly one - in - ten (11 %) said they disagree (based on registered voters).
In addition to calling your representatives, consider attending a town hall, writing letters the editor of your local paper, connecting with the local Democratic Party to help with voter registration efforts and to challenge voter suppression / gerrymandering, and (because it's becoming painfully obvious that progressives have ceded local politics to the extreme right for too long), running for office or helping a better candidate get the job.
In a newsletter, Gary Bauer — politician and activist of the Religious Right — declared the election a «Victory for Values Voters»:
According to polling data, a significantly larger fraction of African - American and Hispanic voters have right - leaning policy preferences when it comes to size of government issues than voted for Romney.
Both the old and the believe that they are the only game in town for realistic right - of - center voters.
Reagan - era populist conservatives showed that it was possible for the party to move «right» on taxes, welfare, and foreign policy and win over the persuadable voters that the establishment believed could only be won by moving left.
If he is running for office I think the voters have a right to know how competent he is and asking basic questions like how old the earth is helps define competency.
What a well - funded and well - executed campaign of persuasion can do is make it easier for conservative candidates to speak to those persuadable voters who do not consume right - leaning media.
The Republican Party (the electoral vehicle for the center - right) should have spent the last three years trying to win over the missing white voters and right - leaning nonwhites.
For voters who may have applied the nebulous «winning team» requirement, the Brooklyn Nets have won 12 of their last 14 games, and at 26 - 16 they own the No. 3 spot in the conference — right behind the Heat (27 - 12) and Knicks (26 - 14), and ahead of the Bulls (25 - 16).
Though voters clearly made the right decision, it just goes to show you that anything is possible for the four teams who qualify.
Featuring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep, the tale of women fighting for the right to vote shows the type of liberation that voters love in their Best Picture winners.
So I find it exceptionally hard to fault a voter for reserving his right to continue thinking about a player.
Right now, the Park District does not have the money to do anything with it, and would have to go back to its voters to ask for more money to build a golf course or water park, like they've been talking about.»
Everything could be thrown off balance by the split, merger or creation of parties: pollsters are already testing the waters for a possible new party led by former minister Moshe Kahlon, who is considering a comeback and would likely steal leftist voters from the left for the right.
«While Nate McMurray was busy at his Grand Island Town Hall Campaign Headquarters currying favor with the Democrat establishment and figuring out how to sell the Cuomo / Pelosi agenda to NY - 27 voters, Chris Collins was spending his time delivering historic tax cuts for working families in his district, expanding access to broadband in rural communities, defending our Lake Ontario Shoreline and protecting our Second Amendment rights,» Piligra said.
These will become strong issues, and Astorino will accurately be protrayed as too far to the right for majority New York voters.
All the credit must go to the Ghanaian Voters who decided to support the Right Vision of President Akufo - Addo by voting massively for him.
In that regard, any ruling party that is powerful of it's own - i.e., has intrinsic power not derived from voters; a power to stick to ruling despite the changing desires of people - is antidemocratic; so a «democracy through strength» is a danger that might (not always, but a possibility) turn into a dictatorship; and a «democracy through weakness» which is unable to do so and needs to re-estabilish it's power (and right to exist) at every single elections is a preferrable system of governance that would pay more attention towards their people, and be better for the people (as opposed to their own nomenclature).
The Tory leader yesterday admitted his party had failed to provide a centre - right alternative for voters north of the border, letting the Scottish National Party (SNP) take a lead on traditional Tory issues.