Some 56,000 North Carolinians regained their voting rights thanks to a court ruling Monday that found people on parole or probation for felonies should be able to vote. The ruling represents the largest expansion of voting rights in the state since 1965’s Voting Rights Act, according to Durham civil rights …
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WASHINGTON —In the fall of 1981, a young conservative lawyer named John Roberts, fresh off a Supreme Court clerkship, arrived at the Justice Department at the start of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Hired as a special assistant to the attorney general, Roberts focused on voting rights, and in particular the battle …
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Georgia was one of the most reliable conservative strongholds in the nation before it voted for President Joe Biden last November and then, two months later, a pair of Democratic senators. The state’s still-very-Republican legislature has since been doing all it can to make sure this never happens again, and …
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