Article from Roll Call by Simone Pathé:
…A handful of Democratic groups are currently litigating about a dozen cases over what they see as unfair election laws and maps across the country…
The multi-million-dollar investment in a concerted legal strategy is an acknowledgment of how important minority and youth voters are to Democratic efforts to turn out their base in states that will be pivotal in next year’s House, Senate and presidential elections…
The strategy is also a recognition that without control of state legislatures or the U.S. Senate, there’s little Democrats in government can do ahead of 2020 to reverse some of the voting laws that GOP-controlled legislatures have passed since the Supreme Court in 2013 struck down a key section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act…
Read the full article here.
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