Shock as Trump instead of calming rising tensions triggered by police murder of George Floyd said he is “president of law and order” and would declare martial law.
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Shock as Trump becomes ‘President of Law and Order’, threatening martial law in response to protests over Police Murder of George Floyd
Election security 2020: How prepared is the U.S. to confront foreign threats?
What is the breadth of foreign interference threats the US faces ahead of 2020 presidential election from actors like Russia, China, Iran? Expert opinion.
Twitter adds Fact-Check tag on Trump’s tweet, he threatens to regulate social media dictator style
Twitter added a fact-check tag/link on Trump’s tweet on mail-in voting. Feeling offended, the President threatened to regulate social media.
While Trump tries to discredit mail voting, GOP officials move ahead with plans
Trump persists in discrediting vote-by-mail warranted by coronavirus. This has not stopped some GOP officials from pushing on with increasing mail-in voting
States push millions of people toward absentee voting amid pandemic
Mail-in voting is viewed as the way to go in 2020 elections due to the coronavirus. State and local election administrators are pushing voters to use it.
WATCH: Pelosi speaks on coronavirus funding for mail-in voting, election security
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a news conference May 21 on the 100th anniversary of the House of Representatives’ passage of the 19th Amendment.
‘A game-changer’: Pandemic forces shift in black voter outreach
The coronavirus has forced a shift in black voter outreach. “Historic voter suppression helps drive preference to vote in person”.
Judge grants sanctions against DOJ over citizenship question
A federal judge imposed financial sanctions against the Trump administration for failing to produce documents in census citizenship question litigation.
Coronavirus has made the 2020 election a perfect storm for voting rights lawsuits
The coronavirus pandemic imposed a modification of election methods. This has, in turn, provoked legal battles of potentially historical proportions.
America Is Woefully Unprepared for a COVID-19 Election
It is becoming increasingly evident that America is unprepared for a COVID-19 election. This is worrying as 1 million votes are at stake.
- Voting registration activists are shifting their message to health care during the coronavirus pandemic
- Suits filed across US challenging mail-in voting obstacles
- ‘It’s Partly On Me’: GOP Official Says Fraud Warnings Hamper Vote-By-Mail Push
- Republicans and Democrats barrel toward collision on voting by mail
- House Democrats include $3.6 billion for mail-in voting in new stimulus bill
- Access Denied? Coronavirus Complicates Voter Access
- Mail-in election could trigger Florida 2000-like chaos, disputes
- Pandemic Prompts Questions About 2020 Presidential Election
- Warren warns coronavirus ‘poses a threat to free and fair elections’
- Coronavirus threatens a guarded tradition for many black Americans: Voting in person
WORLDWIDE
Hypocrisy Gone Viral? Officials Set Bad COVID-19 Examples
Leaders are expected to be exemplary in their conduct yet some major world leaders have been bad models during coronavirus. A few have been exemplary.
Burundi: Ruling Party Candidate Named Winner in Presidential Vote
In a twist of events Nkurunziza who scrapped term limits in 2018 opted not to run. However, the ruling party candidate has now won Presidential election.
Internet Throttling: A Hidden Threat
There is now more to internet shutdown as governments around the world grow more savvy in stifling info flow. They now ask ISPs to slow down connectivity.
Illiberal Hungary ‘mounting an ambitious ideological campaign’?
Budapest’s response to coronavirus… has been to suspend parliament and give [Premier] Viktor Orbán open-ended powers to rule by decree, Democracy Digest.
Azerbaijan Should Release Jailed Opposition Leader
Friday marks two months since Tofiq Yagublu, one of Azerbaijan’s top political opposition figures, was thrown behind bars for his activism, HRW.
Why democracies are better at managing crises
Is there a link between political systems and the effectiveness of crisis response? A new perspective shows why democracies are better at managing crises.
Disinformation and democracy: New weapons of political warfare
“…disinformation is not only corrosive to open societies, which depend on collective trust in facts, but also takes a subtler toll on the perpetrator…”
Uganda: Drop Charges Against 19 Homeless Youth
HRW has asked Uganda’s Public Prosecutions Director to release of homeless youth arrested on grounds of breaking COVID-19 lockdown laws.
Bangladesh: Mass Arrests Over Cartoons, Posts
Some critics of government’s response to COVID-19 in Bangladesh are facing the law over charges of spreading rumours and misinformation on facebook.
How to resist the authoritarian surge
There is still a “sort of love of liberalism all over the world, even in places like Russia and China…It is obviously there in Hong Kong”, expert.
- How to resist the authoritarian surge
- As coronavirus threatens legitimacy, China targets victims and critics
- Falling for China’s Fake Covid-19 News Was Dangerous and Preventable
- COVID-19’s regime-type fallacy: Autocrats also feeling strain
- How China exploits the pandemic it helped cause
- ‘He Found One of Stalin’s Mass Graves. Now He’s in Jail’
- ‘Beginning of the end’ for Hong Kong? Two systems ‘dead as a Dodo’
- Autocratic assertion meets democratic dereliction
- COVID-19’s new pretexts for consolidating autocrats’ power
- Don’t pave the way for authoritarian spheres of influence