voting rights

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.

In Georgia, faith leaders are asking corporate executives to condemn laws restricting voting access or face a boycott.

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

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...

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.

Liberal activists are stepping up calls on corporate America to denounce Republican efforts to tighten state voting laws.

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

The ranks of big corporations now criticizing GOP efforts to restrict voting access are spreading to Texas.

Critics of Georgia’s new Republican-backed election law have issued fresh calls to boycott some of the state’s largest businesses

Democrats are seizing on new voting restrictions in Georgia to focus attention on the fight to overhaul federal election laws

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has drawn protests as he signed into law a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of state elections

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.

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...

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.”

States across the South are the center of the upcoming, once-a-decade redistricting battle

Passing President Joe Biden’s sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package into law was the easy part for the Democrats.

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

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...

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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