Sentences with phrase «voters identification laws»

Or is the real threat new voter identification laws that have the potential to disenfranchise significant portions of the population?

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder used his speech on the first morning of Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network convention to warn that voting rights — particularly those of communities of color — are currently «under siege» by Republican voter identification laws.

Indeed, Mark - Viverito — who has repeatedly attacked Trump on Twitter and claimed he has placed the country in a «state of emergency» — pointed to the expansion of «anti-democratic» voter identification laws in Republican - run states.

The South Carolina and Texas cases involve voter identification laws; a similar Indiana law was previously upheld by the court.

Yet, several of the most crucial elements of American democracy still warrant close attention, including voter identification laws, the restrictions on early voting and, not least of all, the newest phrase to have permeated American politics, that «corporations are people too».

Councilman Vincent Gentile, a Democratic candidate for Congress, today broke with much of his party and with President Barack Obama by endorsing voter identification laws.

Mr. Perez, a former assistant attorney general, has a history of taking on racially tinged cases, including a Mississippi school district's alleged violations of black students» Miranda Rights, George Zimmerman's shooting of Trayvon Martin, the alleged abuse and discrimination against Hispanic inmates by an Arizona sheriff's department and South Carolina's controversial voter identification laws.

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.»

Thankfully, unlike 33 other states, New York does not have restrictive voter identification laws which do nothing more than throw up a roadblock to voters.

One day, we'll be able to watch the film without associating it with voter identification laws, a Supreme Court decision that put an arbitrary expiration date on racial discrimination, and a string of highly publicized and questionable police killings.

It's not just interested in energy: In recent years ALEC has supported Arizona's restrictive immigration legislation, the «Stand Your Ground» gun laws associated with the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, and voter identification laws proposed in many states.

The appeal arose out of a suit by the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless filed in 2006 regarding Ohio's then - new voter identification laws — specifically, whether Ohio must count ballots cast in the wrong precinct.

Some Republican state lawmakers, upset by a federal judge's ruling against the state's voter identification law, are vowing to introduce new legislation.