June 14, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to advance the nomination of Patrick Wyrick to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
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June 11, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Supreme Court narrowly ruled 5-4 in the Husted v. APRI case, which will uphold the Ohio’s aggressive voter roll purges of people who vote infrequently. Ohio has purged more than 2 million voters in the past seven years, which is more than any other state in the nation. Voter purges disproportionately affect communities of color, veterans, low-income communities, young people, and disabled and elderly people. Today’s decision opens up the possibility of other states to follow Ohio’s lead in disenfranchising eligible Americans from voting.
May 24, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved Andrew Oldham’s nomination to the judiciary for the Fifth Circuit Court along party lines. Oldham is one of the youngest of Trump’s nominees for a seat on the circuit court of appeals, and if approved by the full Senate, will hold a lifetime appointment to the judiciary.
March 27, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, the Commerce Department announced that it will be including a question about citizenship status in the upcoming 2020 U.S. Census. The modern Decennial Census has not included a citizenship question since 1950, and its inclusion in the upcoming census is widely seen as an effort to intimidate and discourage noncitizens and their families from responding to the census, a move that will affect the total count of Americans. Without an accurate count of every living person in America, the incomplete data will skew the drawing of political districts, the number of seats each state has in the House of Representatives, and the distribution of federal funding for local communities.
February 22, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, reports broke that Matthew Masterson, the chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission -- which helps to protect U.S. election systems from possible cyber attacks -- is being pushed out from his position by House Speaker Paul Ryan and White House officials.
January 10, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Supreme Court will hear opening arguments in the Husted v. APRI case, which is seeking to illegally purge Ohio voting rolls. This case stands to set a nationwide precedent for illegal voter roll purging and voter suppression.
January 9, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge John Michael Vazquez ruled that the 1982 consent decree limiting the Republican National Committee’s ability to challenge voters inside polling locations has been terminated as of Dec. 1, 2017. The decree was originally enacted due to the RNC attempting to suppress African American voters.
January 3, 2018
Washington, DC -- Today, in the face of not a single piece of evidence validating his thoroughly debunked claims that 2-3 million Americans voted illegally in the 2016 election, Donald Trump has dissolved his voting commission. As it has been heavily reported, there are numerous reports that have debunked this claim, and a study examining voting between 2000 and 2014 found only 31 credible instances of in-person voter fraud.
December 13, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Following the election of Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate from Alabama, the Sierra Club is joining the call to push for Jones to be seated as soon as possible and for any votes on the Republican tax scheme to be delayed until that happens, in line with logic used by Senate Republicans following the election of Scott Brown in 2010.
January 30, 2017
Today, Donald Trump announced that he plans to appoint Neil Gorsuch as a Supreme Court Justice.