Sentences with phrase «restrictive voting laws»

The election also highlighted the state's antiquated and restrictive voting laws.

He contrasted this with the record of former Attorney General Eric Holder and current Attorney General Loretta Lynch, respectively the first and second African - Americans to lead the Department of Justice, and their work probing police departments and combating restrictive voting laws.

Some 14 states have enacted more restrictive voting laws than they had in the 2012 presidential election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

Not exact matches

Voters in Ireland will be going to the polls in May to cast their vote on liberalising the country's restrictive abortion laws.

They've tried passing restrictive voter ID laws, cutting back early - voting hours, and eliminating same - day voter registration.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced it would stay out of a fight over a restrictive North Carolina voting law.

Note that the average citizen is not voting for candidates who favor more restrictive gun laws.

In the first analysis of its kind in 2018, the Brennan Center's Voting Laws Roundup shows that lawmakers in eight states have introduced at least 16 bills making it harder to vote, and 35 restrictive bills in 14 states have carried over from previous legislative sessions.

New York's voting and registration laws have long been derided as onerous and needlessly restrictive, falling far behind most other states that have implemented modern methods to register and cast a vote.

The bill is more restrictive than one introduced by Independent Democratic senator Diane Savino, who says she has 39 «yes» votes in the chamber for her Compassionate Care Act, enough to pass it into law.

Without a vote in Congress, and with increasingly restrictive laws and regulation, the island has had little power in helping itself, becoming more dependent every day on outside help.