State lawmakers gathered for a hearing to address a House bill that would have given voter rights back to thousands of ...
President of the United States ... inmates each month and they all receiving packets explaining their voting rights. "For a lot of the people that are locked up today, it was the voice of those ...
Civil rights advocates say Mississippi needs to simplify the process of restoring voting rights to people convicted of some ...
Mississippi lawmakers heard testimony from people with felonies on their records on why they should have the right to vote.
The United States ... obliges prison authorities to encourage prisoners to assert their voting rights and to facilitate voting procedures. The only prisoners who may not vote are those convicted ...
The Minnesota Supreme Court is hearing arguments Monday regarding the restoration of voting rights to convicted felons in the state upon their release from prison ... rights to those who have ...
The Colorado Senate passed a bill that would help ensure eligible voters who are confined in jails can cast their ballots.
In most states, voting rights are automatically ... and in two states even inmates may vote. But Kentucky requires an act of the governor to restore a felon’s right to vote or hold public ...
So why don't those rights count when people do not go to prison or ... t the right to vote, isn't that just a bundle of independent rights in addition to the right to hold office?” ...
Women's March activists hold signs ... s reproductive rights and bodily anatomy in the US should concern not only Americans but also feminists in Europe, and especially those of us in the UK.
Congress approved the federal act in part to prohibit racial discrimination in voting. However, in November 2023 the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that only the United States attorney ...
“If this is moving down those paths, that’s a good thing,” Walz said. Minnesota Senate President Bobby Joe Champion, a Minneapolis Democrat, is the lead author of the Minnesota Voting Rights ...