The Trump administration’s lawsuit is the latest attempt to exploit mistakes to exclude hundreds of thousands of voters.

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era jurisprudence to set a course for the country’s future. It is ...

Though progress has been made in Maryland, allowing the injustice of felony disenfranchisement to persist undermines those efforts. Our state cannot claim to champion democracy while maintaining ...

But it was during the era of Jim Crow that felon disenfranchisement became weaponized to prevent Black voters from influencing elections. The Constitution of 1902 disenfranchised Virginians ...

How many and other updates "Mississippi’s harsh and unforgiving felony disenfranchisement scheme is a national outlier," attorneys write in the appeal. "A national consensus has formed against ...

Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination — employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food ...

Arizona is one of five states where more than one in 10 Black adults is disenfranchised because of felony convictions. Olivier Touron/Getty Share A nation in which 4 million Americans were denied ...

If you like what we do and want us to keep going, support and donate here. Okay, here's what you need to know today: Felony disenfranchisement of Indigenous voters WASHINGTON — Imagine walking in to ...

Okay, here's what you need to know today: Felony disenfranchisement of Indigenous voters WASHINGTON — Imagine walking in to cast a ballot for the very first time, already unsure if the process ...

Also contributing to this high disenfranchisement rate is the fact that Tennessee has one of the 10 highest incarceration rates in the country. Finally, while some with a felony conviction can ...

It also gets impacted by felony disenfranchisement, meaning laws that keep people who have been convicted of felonies from voting. These laws also keep people who are currently incarcerated ...

Mass confusion can be a potent voter suppressant, especially when people are scared they could be criminally charged for trying to register, as changes around felony disenfranchisement ... He says ...