CAIR-Minnesota hosted Somali American Solidarity Day at the State Capitol as the organization announced it is representing a Minnesota labor organizer whose phone and books were seized by federal agents, while the NAACP fights Tennessee’s gerrymandered congressional map in court.
gerrymandering
Posted inOpinion
Gerrymandering is the new redlining
Gerrymandering silences Black voices, denies resources, and destroys lives. The fight is not just about elections, but about health, housing, and survival.
Posted inNews
Federal appeals court deals major blow to voting rights
A federal appeals court ruling could weaken Voting Rights Act protections.
Posted inNational, News
Federal court rejects Alabama GOP’s defiant voting map, will draw new map that expands Black voting power
At issue in the Alabama case was whether the power of Black voters was diluted by dividing them into districts where White voters dominate.
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Attacking voting rights
This is the fourth and last of MSR’s “Elections Under Attack” series that looks at threats to our elections growing out of the Big Lie that the former president won the 2020 election.