Any one of these theories would greatly expand the kinds of voter suppression that survive judicial review. Consider Brnovich itself, which involves a pair of…
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A Supreme Court Test for What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act
But Paul M. Smith, a lawyer with the Campaign Legal Center, which submitted a brief supporting the challengers, said lower courts had worked out a…
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Give Biden a Chance? On Covid Aid, Some Trump Voters Just Might
Some Republicans share those concerns. Sean Wiley, who voted twice for Mr. Trump and describes himself as a conservative libertarian, said the government needed to…
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How to Keep Extremists Out of Power
Though Alaska has a sore-loser law, Senator Lisa Murkowski’s 2010 re-election is still instructive. That year, as an incumbent, she lost the Republican primary to…
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Democrats’ Big Tent Helped Them Win. Now It Threatens Biden’s Agenda.
Mr. Sanders took aim at the recent news that a moderate think tank, Third Way, was working on a project seeking to push Democrats toward…
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The Presidential Primary Calendar Stinks. Now’s the Time to Shake It Up.
Don’t freak out, but Nevada’s Democrats are already looking ahead to the next presidential election — and, more specifically, how to pick their nominee. On…
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Why Seven Republican Senators Voted to Convict Trump
WASHINGTON — The seed for Senator Bill Cassidy’s decision to find Donald J. Trump guilty of inciting an insurrection was planted one day last fall,…
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‘There’s Nothing Left’: Why Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping:…
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Why Arizona’s Senators May Collide With Democrats Who Elected Them
Democrats control the U.S. Senate by a single vote. President Biden has placed bipartisanship near the top of his agenda. Republican senators are pushing for…
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Wall Street Makes Unprecedented Push to Get Out the Vote
“This is a crucial time for the city: New Yorkers all want to see the vibrant community they call home thrive once again, and I…
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