Federal courts shot down two state laws enacted by Republican legislatures aimed at suppressing the vote. A three judge U.S. District Court panel in Washington blocked a SB14 in Texas which would have required voters to present phooto IDs to election officials prior to being allowed to vote. The court struck down the law, considered […]
Florida voters scored a decisive victory earlier today in Florida when a Federal Judge filed an order indicating he will permanently remove controversial restrictions on community-based voter registration drives. The suit was filed by the League of Women Voters of Florida, Rock the Vote, and the Florida Public Interest Research Group Education Fund back in December. To […]
Conservatives are always on the wrong side of history. Without exception, every leap in expanding rights in this country, from slavery to women’s suffrage have been violently opposed by the conservative right. Liberals wanted to end slavery. Conservatives opposed it. Liberals wanted Women’s rights. Conservatives opposed it . Liberals wanted to end Segregation. Conservatives opposed […]
Released in April 2012, Reckless: The Political Assault on the American Environment, by Bob Dean details the Tea Party’s war on the environment. For instance in 2011 the Republican led House of Representatives voted almost 200 times to undermine environmental and public health safeguards constituting the largest attack on environmental protections in America’s history. Bob […]