The Danger of the Independent State Legislature Theory
Posted on What's New Ryan Suto on July 01, 2022

Yesterday at the end of its term, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case Moore v. Harper, which involves a deceptively simple question that could have huge implications for voting rights and redistricting in the United States: What exactly is meant by the word “Legislature” in the “Elections Clause” and the “Presidential Electors Clause” of the U.S. Constitution?
Read moreThis is What Nine Years Without the Voting Rights Act Looks Like
Posted on What's New Ryan Suto on June 23, 2022

The Supreme Court claimed there was insufficient evidence of a racial gap in voter registration and turnout to justify upholding Section 4 of the VRA and allowing Section 5 of the Act to remain effective. Nine years later, we now have sufficient evidence.
Read moreWant to fix our polarized politics? Fix how we vote
Posted on What's New Ryan Suto on May 27, 2022

Voters understand that political polarization threatens our country. This is what we can do about it.
Read moreFifty-Seven Years After Selma
Posted on What's New Ryan Suto on March 07, 2022

The Voting Rights Act is intrinsically linked to the events surrounding Bloody Sunday, what preceded them, and what we as a nation should have learned from them. As time passes and as the efforts to repair the Act do not, we risk losing the lessons of Selma and the statutory activation of the 15th Amendment.
Read moreAt Its Own Summit for Democracy, the U.S. Was an Outlier. The Fair Representation Act Could Change That.
Posted on What's New Ryan Suto on December 15, 2021

At a time when our own democratic system is struggling, the U.S. was a glaring outlier among the summit invitees in at least one way: the way we choose our lawmakers.
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