WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the majority of Senate Republicans voted to block the admission of first-hand witness testimony for Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the majority of Americans have called for the inclusion of witnesses and evidence in the trial, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has so far rejected the terms while admitting to coordinating directly with the White House as opposed to acting as an impartial juror. The Sierra Club has called for a fair trial with witnesses so as to protect our democracy and our clean air, clean water, and a safe climate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House of Representatives voted to pass H.R. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA), which aims to restore and modernize the full power of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In the six years since the Supreme Court gutted the original Voting Rights Act, numerous states across the country have enacted restrictive and destructive tactics to purge voters from the rolls and make it more difficult for historically disenfranchised communities -- including African American, Latinx, elderly, and young people -- to cast their votes.
ATLANTA -- Today, the Sierra Club will be launching the largest-ever non-partisan digital voter registration campaign in the organization’s 127 year history. The campaign, called Ready To Vote, will educate the public on their voting rights and register historically disenfranchised voters, including students and young people, and African American and Latinx communities in Georgia. The Sierra Club will run digital ads directing people to check their voter registration and register to vote using the educational tool TurboVote. The campaign will also run in Michigan, Missouri, and Florida.
ST. LOUIS -- Today, the Sierra Club will be launching the largest-ever non-partisan digital voter registration campaign in the organization’s 127 year history. The campaign, called Ready To Vote, will educate the public on their voting rights and register historically disenfranchised voters, including students and young people, and African American and Latinx communities in Missouri. The Sierra Club will run digital ads directing people to check their voter registration and register to vote using the educational tool TurboVote. The campaign will also run in Michigan, Georgia, and Florida.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club will be launching the largest-ever non-partisan digital voter registration campaign in the organization’s 127 year history. The campaign, called Ready To Vote, will educate the public on their voting rights and register historically disenfranchised voters, including students and young people and African American and Latinx communities, in Michigan, Missouri, Georgia, and Florida. The Sierra Club will run digital ads in the four states directing people to check their voter registration and register to vote using the educational tool TurboVote.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, Senators Udall and Merkley attempted to bring the Senate companion bill to H.R. 1, the For the People Act, to the floor for a vote via unanimous consent. Senator Roy Blunt blocked the bill from a vote.
DENVER, CO — Today, the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountain, the Colorado AFL-CIO, and the Colorado Sierra Club delivered 17,026 petition signatures to Senator Cory Gardner demanding he vote no on the nomination of Donald Trump’s extreme Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. More than 3.2 million signatures were collected nationwide, the most ever in opposition to a Supreme Court nominee.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Democrats and grassroots efforts succeeded in pressuring Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell into supporting bipartisan election security legislation to protect voting systems from hacking. The voting machines used by millions of voters in over a dozen states are still susceptible to hacking following foreign powers interfering in the 2016 and 2018 elections.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Donald Trump announced he is directing the Commerce Department to collect citizenship data from all federal agencies and departments. This is a defeat for the administration’s attempts to weaponize the 2020 Census by adding a racist and illegal citizenship question citizenship question in an effort to erase and intimidate immigrants and vulnerable communities from answering the Census and deprive them of political representation and resources. Trump’s announcement still leaves the door open for states to manipulate Congressional districts based on citizenship.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, on the one-year anniversary of Justice Anthony Kennedy announcing his retirement, the Supreme Court ruled on cases involving the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census and partisan gerrymandering. The Court struck down the citizenship question, reasoning that the Trump Administration did not give adequate explanation for adding the question, but also ruled that partisan gerrymandering is beyond the reach of the federal courts.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Supreme Court ruled to reject a challenge to a lower court ruling that found Virginia Republicans racially gerrymandered 11 districts across the state back in 2011. With today’s decision, African American voters in the affected districts will be able to vote under a constitutionally-legal map for the first time in eight years.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate voted to approve the nomination of Patrick Wyrick to a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.