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Wendy Weiser talked about state laws that affect voting and elections, and charges of intimidation and harassment of election officials.

Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021. The legislation …

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, civil rights leaders, and law professors testified at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the 1965 Voting Rights Act. They discussed several …

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a virtual oversight hearing on the Voting Rights Act. A panel of civil rights and election law experts…

Legal experts talked about the rule of law and how its protections have eroded over the last few years from its original intent of protecting the public from abuses of power. They addressed …

The National Urban League released its 2019 State of Black America Report which focused primarily on voting rights issues. National Urban League President Marc Morial told an audience at the…

Panelists talked about automatic voter registration laws enacted in Oregon, California, Vermont, and West Virginia where eligible citizens are automatically registered to vote when obtaining…

Wendy Weiser, the Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, talked about new state laws that could make it more difficult to vote. Topics included what types of id…