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From a Birmingham jail, where he was arrested for trying to help blacks exercise their right to vote, MLK wrote: "Remember, everything that Hitler did was legal."
Published: Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 9:36 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The new redistricted congressional and legislative maps passed by our legislature are not surprising to those who have followed this hyper partisan General Assembly.
Published: Thursday, November 16th, 2023 @ 1:50 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Contrary to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s contention, the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act protect the voting rights of people of all races
Published: Friday, November 18th, 2022 @ 12:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Remarks by President Biden on Protecting the Sacred, Constitutional Right to Vote
Published: Thursday, August 5th, 2021 @ 12:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Judicial Watch today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit adopted the argument put forth by Judicial Watch and Allied Educational Foundation (AEF) in their amici curiae brief when it upheld Alabama’s 2011 Photo Voter Identification Law.
Published: Monday, August 3rd, 2020 @ 1:21 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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On the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 15th Amendment, we celebrate one of the most fundamental and sacred rights of our Republic—the right to vote.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2020 @ 4:37 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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We've been hearing a lot about "redistricting" lately.
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 @ 11:41 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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After slogging through a mass of statistical data and redistricting jargon, day three of Common Cause v. Lewis brought the court back to the fundamental questions: the constitutionality of Republicans’ gerrymandered maps and the legal implications of the controversial Hofeller files.
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2019 @ 2:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican legislative leaders say the NAACP deliberately omitted them from a federal lawsuit seeking to kill newly enacted voter ID legislation.
Published: Friday, January 18th, 2019 @ 10:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On November 6, an amendment to the North Carolina constitution requiring voters to present a photo identification for voting in person (the "Voter ID" amendment) passed with 55 percent support.
Published: Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019 @ 12:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The term "birthright citizenship" refers to the idea that you can become a citizen of a country simply by being born there.
Published: Friday, November 23rd, 2018 @ 10:59 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Governor McCrory announced he will ask the Supreme Court tomorrow to reinstate North Carolina's common sense voter ID law.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 12:12 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright told attendees of a Sept. 19 event at a progressive church in Chapel Hill he is "giddily happy" with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, blamed U.S. foreign policy for the rise of ISIS, and took swipes at President Obama for failing to push racial reparations and...
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2015 @ 4:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An amendment to replace the States' influence in the federal government since the 17th Amendment was adopted.
Published: Sunday, July 26th, 2015 @ 6:14 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday struck back at the federal government, saying the U.S. Department of Justice was "working in the fringes." McCrory, a Republican, said the state would defend the lawsuit filed by the Democratic administration of President Barack Obama against the state's new election...
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2013 @ 3:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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ne hundred years of affliction is a long time. The time has come for tax reform.... No, the time has come for a tax revolution.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 11:45 am
By: Diane Rufino
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History teaches us that the Ku Klux Klan was a violent organization aimed at terrorizing and intimidating former slaves. They operated as a secret society - a bunch of cowards with white gowns and masks, often carrying guns and a noose.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 1:01 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The U.S. Constitution does not give Americans the right to vote. Voting is a right originating in the states; the U.S. Constitution, through its amendments, protects that right.
Published: Wednesday, October 10th, 2012 @ 12:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Not long ago, a blogger wrote: "Recently, my Biology teacher threw a bible across the classroom! Not that I am a Christian, but that's not how you treat other people's religion.
Published: Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 @ 9:21 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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