Three Years After Jan. 6 Trump Is Even More Dangerous
The America that emerges on Jan. 7, 2025, will be different from the one in place four years earlier or even today.
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The America that emerges on Jan. 7, 2025, will be different from the one in place four years earlier or even today.
As we begin a consequential election year, here are a few of the most important cases I am watching.
The genie of violence has been blessed, approved and legitimized, especially by the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
As of 2022, more than 4.6 million Americans with a felony conviction were disenfranchised — disproportionately Black and Latinx citizens.
As it was in previous years, one of the main story lines in 2023 is the staggering record of losses Republican lawyers had in court.
Donald Trump is plotting to overthrow American democracy. It is not a secret, and he is not subtle.
The brave citizens in Galveston recognized the injustice that was thrust upon them and spoke out because they knew the power of their voices.
If Allen was the only VRA victory of the year, it would be a good year. But the impact of this landmark decision didn’t extend just to Alabama.
S.B. 747 makes it so that too many people would go to the polls, lawfully vote and later learn — or perhaps never learn — that their vote didn’t count.
The impact of the new maps — on state and national politics and on the lives of North Carolinians — will be profound.