Stephen Wolf
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Democrats are already gearing up for our next redistricting battle in 2020
Democrats have finally woken up to the reality that they can’t afford to wait until the after the 2020 Census to prepare for the next round of congressional and state legislative redistricting. Politico reports that top Democrats are organizing with... → Read More
In a huge win for voting rights, federal appeals court blocks North Carolina's voter suppression law
In an extraordinary ruling , a federal appeals court overturned a lower court ruling and granted a broad injunction against North Carolina Republicans’ sweeping voter suppression law. Crucially, → Read More
Virginia Supreme Court blocks Gov. McAuliffe's executive order restoring voting rights for 206,000
In a blow to voting rights, the Virginia Supreme Court blocked Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe from automatically restoring the voting rights of felons who have completed their sentences. Virginia is one of just four states that effectively imposes a... → Read More
In a win for voting rights, federal court strikes down Michigan's ban on straight-ticket voting
A federal district court handed voting rights advocates a victory on Thursday when it blocked a new Michigan law eliminating straight-ticket voting, an option that lets voters check a single box to cast a ballot for every candidate the party of their... → Read More
Supreme Court to consider important North Carolina racial gerrymandering case in coming term
The Supreme Court announced this week that it would hear a case this coming term concerning racial gerrymandering in North Carolina’s congressional districts. Alongside a similar challenge to Virginia’s state House of Delegates districts already set... → Read More
Supreme Court will hear new racial gerrymandering case that could have national consequences
On Monday the Supreme Court announced that it would hear a challenge to Virginia’s Republican-drawn state House of Delegates districts in a case that could have far-reaching effects. Plaintiffs in that case contend that Republican legislators violated... → Read More
What if Appalachia were its own state? Trump dominated the primaries there, while Clinton barely won
Appalachia is a large geographic region in the eastern United States with a distinct cultural and demographic identity. What if this region were a single big state instead of split several ways between largely non-Appalachian states due to... → Read More
Supreme Court rejects Republican challenge to Virginia's new congressional map
As expected, the Supreme Court left untouched a lower court ruling that had forced Virginia to implement new congressional lines in 2016 because the state’s previous map was found to be an illegal racial gerrymander. The lower court determined that... → Read More
Donald Trump earns widespread support from Europe's far-right leaders
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign platform of bigoted, anti-immigrant, Islamophobic right-wing populism hasn’t just been a smash success in the GOP primaries: It also has a wide swath of admirers across the Atlantic. Though Trump has provoked strong... → Read More
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe to restore voting rights for 200,000 former felons
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced a sweeping executive order to restore the voting rights of roughly 200,000 former convicted felons who have served their sentences. Virginia has some of the ... → Read More
North Carolina Democrats troll GOP governor, force him to appoint top LGBT advocate to legislature
Gov. Pat McCrory and North Carolina Republicans have reaped monumental blowback from pushing HB2, an anti-LGBT law that overturned anti-discrimination ordinances across the state ... → Read More
Panama Papers could topple Iceland's government and elect the anti-establishment Pirate Party
The Panama Papers, an enormous trove of leaked documents from a private law firm, have implicated political figures across the world in alleged schemes to avoid taxes and hide assets in tax havens such as Panama. One such figure was Iceland’s Prime... → Read More
Supreme Court unanimously upholds 'one person, one vote' in Evenwel v. Abbott
The latest Supreme Court ruling in the redistricting-related case Evenwel v. Abbott was nothing short of a total victory for voting rights advocates. Plaintiffs in Evenwel had unsuccessfully sought to systematically undermine minority representation,... → Read More
How can we fight Republican gerrymandering in North Carolina? Retake the state Supreme Court in 2016
Republicans hold a slim 4-3 majority on North Carolina’s Supreme Court, where justices are chosen in nonpartisan elections against another candidate for an eight-year term. To protect that majority in 2016, state Republicans passed a law in 2015 to allow → Read More
Sanders' movement won't beat Clinton, but it can help send him more allies in Congress
Regardless of which candidate you support for president, the primary results and delegate math thus far make it crystal clear that Bernie Sanders is extremely unlikely to win the Democratic nomination. Either way, his candidacy has been a great thing for → Read More
Scalia's death could deal Republicans a huge blow in upcoming redistricting and voting rights cases
The unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was a political earthquake that will dramatically shake ... → Read More
North Carolina's congressional map gets struck down in court, but Democrats shouldn't get hopes up
A federal district court just struck down North Carolina’s extreme congressional gerrymander over the impermissible u... → Read More
How to prevent another Flint: Move gubernatorial elections to presidential years
The ongoing toxic water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has underscored just how critical state and local politics can be.... → Read More
Emergency managers and gerrymandering: How Republican attacks on democracy led to Flint water crisis
In 2012, Michigan voters re-elected Barack Obama by a wide nine-point margin of victory. The also re-elected Democrat... → Read More
An interactive look at the new 2016 Florida and Virginia congressional maps and their stats
Republican-drawn congressional districts in Florida and Virginia have been struck down in court, with new districts o... → Read More