Hansi Lo Wang

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Legal challenges to the Voting Rights Act continue into the new year

Sunday, December 24, 2023

The landmark Voting Rights Act has had a wild year in the courts. In 2024, ongoing legal challenges are threatening to make it harder to protect the voting rights of people of color.

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An appeals court has struck down a key path for enforcing the Voting Rights Act

Monday, November 20, 2023

A federal appeals court has struck down the main path for enforcing a key set of Voting Rights Act protections for people of color. The new ruling out of Arkansas sets up a likely Supreme Court fight.

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An appeals court has struck down a key path for enforcing the Voting Rights Act

Monday, November 20, 2023

Who can sue to enforce key voting protections for people of color under the Voting Rights Act could be severely limited by a lawsuit out of Arkansas, which may be headed for the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Many voters say Congress is broken. Could proportional representation fix it?

Saturday, November 18, 2023

With Congress increasingly polarized, there are growing calls to replace the winner-take-all approach for House elections with a system that advocates say could better reflect the country's diversity.

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An appeals court sets a January deadline for a new Louisiana congressional map

Friday, November 10, 2023

A federal appeals court is giving Louisiana's GOP-led legislature until mid-January to draw a new congressional map to replace one found likely to violate federal law by diluting Black voters' power.

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A GOP plan for the census would revive Trump's failed push for a citizenship question

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Conservative groups created a census plan for a Republican president that includes pushing for a citizenship question that's likely to lower the counts for Latinos and Asian Americans.

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The growing racial gap in U.S. census results is raising an expert panel's concerns

Tuesday, October 03, 2023

The U.S. census undercounting people of color and overcounting white people who don't identify as Latino means political representation and federal funds have been allocated unfairly, a report warns.

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An appeals court has blocked the redrawing of Louisiana's congressional map

Thursday, September 28, 2023

A federal appeals court blocked the redrawing of Louisiana's congressional map after a lower court found the redistricting plan likely violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voters' power.

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The Supreme Court, once again, tells Alabama it needs a new congressional map

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

A U.S. Supreme Court order has signaled that more congressional voting districts where Black voters have a chance of electing their preferred candidate are coming to the South, including Alabama.

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An annual survey from the Census Bureau aims for better data on the LGBTQ+ population

Sunday, September 24, 2023

The Census Bureau wants to use an annual survey to ask people over the age of 15 about their sexual orientation and gender identity. This data could help enforce civil rights laws.

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These 2020 census results break down people's race and ethnicity into details

Thursday, September 21, 2023

The U.S. census asked for more details about people's race and ethnicity in 2020 than ever before. New results show how many responded with identities such as Irish, Jamaican, Arab and Salvadoran.

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Restoring the Voting Rights Act is still on this Alabama Democrat's agenda

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Despite a divided Congress, Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama is still pushing to shore up the Voting Rights Act after the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled key parts of the landmark law.

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Alabama's congressional map is struck down again for diluting Black voters' power

Tuesday, September 05, 2023

Alabama is once again appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a lower court order that struck down the state's congressional map for likely violating the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voters' power.

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Alabama lost a voting rights case at the Supreme Court. It's still trying to win

Monday, August 14, 2023

Alabama is under a federal court order to draw a new congressional map with two districts where Black voters have a chance to elect their preferred candidate. But its GOP-led legislature refused.

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Court to check if new congressional map in Alabama weakens the power of Black voters

Monday, July 24, 2023

The legal fight continues over Alabama's congressional map. A federal court is set to check if a new map approved by the state's Republican-controlled Legislature weakens the power of Black voters.

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Illegal voting maps were used in some states in 2022. This legal idea allowed them

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court has used an obscure legal idea to justify delaying the redrawing of voting maps, forcing some elections to use voting districts that lower courts found to be illegally drawn.

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Alabama to consider new congressional voting map following Supreme Court decision

Monday, July 17, 2023

Alabama begins a special session to consider a new congressional voting map after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state's current map likely diluted the power of Black voters in Alabama.

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What the Supreme Court's rejection of a controversial theory means for elections

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to reject the most extreme version of the "independent state legislature theory" is expected to bring some stability to the 2024 elections — and invite more lawsuits.

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Voting rights advocates welcomed a Supreme Court win. But the fight isn't over

Sunday, June 18, 2023

An unexpected U.S. Supreme Court ruling has upheld a key section of the Voting Rights Act. But many voting rights advocates and legal scholars are bracing for new efforts to dismantle the law.

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What the 2020 census can — and can't — tell us about LGBTQ+ people

Thursday, May 25, 2023

The Census Bureau has released the most comprehensive national statistics to date about same-sex couples living together in the U.S. But many other LGBTQ+ people remain invisible in the census data.

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