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Church Leaders Seek Home Depot Boycott on Georgia Voting Law
A group of religious leaders is calling for a boycott of Georgia-based Home Depot, saying the home improvement giant hasn’t done enough to oppose the state’s new voting laws.
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Faith Leaders Across US Join in Decrying Voting Restrictions
In Georgia, faith leaders are asking corporate executives to condemn laws restricting voting access or face a boycott.
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CEOs Gather to Speak Out Against Voting Law Changes
A number of top executives and corporate leaders gathered online this weekend to discuss what to do in response to changes to some state voting laws, according to multiple news reports
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Are Colorado's Election Laws as Restrictive as Georgia's? The Answer Is No.
When Major League Baseball announced that it was moving its All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver in protest of Georgia’s sweeping new election laws, Republican lawmakers and conservative commentators criticized the leagues decision while falsely claiming that Colorado has similarly restrictive voting laws. So, how do voting laws in the two states compare? Here’s a look at some key...
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MLB Officially Moves All-Star Game to Denver's Coors Field
The All-Star Game will be played at hitter-friendly Coors Field this year. Major League Baseball officially announced the new venue Tuesday after pulling the Midsummer Classic from Atlanta over objections to sweeping changes to Georgia’s voting laws.
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Pressure Mounts on Corporations to Denounce GOP Voting Bills
Liberal activists are stepping up calls on corporate America to denounce Republican efforts to tighten state voting laws.
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EXPLAINER: What Does Georgia's New GOP Election Law Do?
The sweeping rewrite of Georgia’s election rules that was signed into law by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp represents the first big set of changes since former President Donald Trump’s repeated, baseless claims of fraud following his presidential loss to Joe Biden
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Corporate Criticism of GOP-Led Voting Bills Spreads to Texas
The ranks of big corporations now criticizing GOP efforts to restrict voting access are spreading to Texas.
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Georgia's New GOP Election Law Draws Criticism, Lawsuits
Critics of Georgia’s new Republican-backed election law have issued fresh calls to boycott some of the state’s largest businesses
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Democrats Assail Georgia Law, Make Case for Voting Overhaul
Democrats are seizing on new voting restrictions in Georgia to focus attention on the fight to overhaul federal election laws
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Georgia Gov. Kemp Signs GOP Election Bill Amid an Outcry
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has drawn protests as he signed into law a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of state elections
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Georgia Legislator Arrested, Pulled Out of State Capitol as Governor Signs Voting Law
Georgia state troopers arrested Democratic state Rep. Park Cannon on Thursday after she knocked on Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s statehouse office door as he signed a controversial elections bill into law in a closed-door ceremony, NBC News reports.
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‘It's Sick': Biden Blasts Republican Efforts to Restrict Voting
President Joe Biden on Thursday blasted Republican efforts to restrict voting in numerous states, saying “it’s sick.” “I’m convinced that we’ll be able to stop this because it is the most pernicious thing. This makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle. I mean, this is gigantic, what they’re trying to do. And it cannot be sustained,” Biden told reporters at his...
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Biden: GOP Voting Rights Proposals ‘Un-American' and ‘Sick'
President Joe Biden on Thursday criticized Republican proposals that he says would restrict voting access. “What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is,” he said. “It’s sick. It’s sick. Deciding in some states that you cannot bring water to people standing in line waiting to vote.”
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South Emerges as Flashpoint of Brewing Redistricting Battle
States across the South are the center of the upcoming, once-a-decade redistricting battle
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Biden's $1.9T Rescue Signed, and Now Things Get Tougher
Passing President Joe Biden’s sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package into law was the easy part for the Democrats.
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House Passes Sweeping Voting Rights Bill Over GOP Opposition
House Democrats have approved sweeping voting and ethics legislation over unanimous Republican opposition, advancing to the Senate what would be the largest overhaul of the U.S. election law in at least a generation
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In Supreme Court, GOP Attorney Defends Voting Restrictions by Saying They Help Republicans Win
A Republican attorney defending Arizona’s voting restrictions in front of the Supreme Court told justices Tuesday that the GOP was defending the measures because they disadvantage Democrats. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments over Arizona voting restrictions in a pair of consolidated cases challenging a state law banning ballot collection and a policy that tosses ballots cast in the wrong precinct. Democrats have...
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Supreme Court Could Put Limits on Efforts to Combat Racial Discrimination in Voting
Eight years after carving the heart out of a landmark voting rights law, the Supreme Court is looking at putting new limits on efforts to combat racial discrimination in voting
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Stacey Abrams Among Long List of Nominees for Nobel Peace Prize
Black Lives Matter, World Health Organization, former President Donald Trump and others also receive nomination.