How The Supreme Court's Actions Could Impact the Nonpartisan Reform Movement
Shawn GriffithsPublished: 09 Aug, 2023
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What impact has or could the Supreme Court have on the growing movement to give Americans better elections? FairVote recently hosted an online webinar to discuss next steps for reform following the decisions in Moore v Harper and Alan v Milligan, as well as what cases to watch in the next SCOTUS term.
FairVote assembled a panel that included FairVote Senior Fellow Terrance Carroll, Senior Legal Fellow G. Michael Parsons, Harvard Professor Guy-Uriel Charles, University of Baltimore Professor Gilda Daniels, and Chris Shenton of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. Watch the full conversation above.
Photo Credit: Joe Ravi. Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons.
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