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The Neo-Independent: Making Sense of the Senseless
A woman I know sent me a note the other day. I was surprised, but happy to hear from her as we don’t know each other well.In the note, she explained that she had woken up last Monday morning to the ne ...
11 Oct, 2017
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IVN Readers React: Seriously, This Is Legal?
Should lawmakers be allowed to draw electoral districts to protect their party from competition? Can the courts rule legislative and congressional maps unconstitutional on the basis of partisan and po ...
06 Oct, 2017
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Voting Rights At Stake in Partisan Gerrymandering Case
Update October 3, 2017: The full transcript has been released for the oral argument in Gill v. Whitford. Check out the transcript below. The Supreme Court heard oral argument Tuesday in Gill v. W ...
03 Oct, 2017
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Morning Report August 21, 2017
WAR GAMESThe US and South Korea will continue with their plans of 10 days worth of military exercises beginning today, despite dire warning from North Korea.The Ulchi Freedom Guardian military exercis ...
20 Aug, 2017
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Health Care Nightmares: This Needs to Stop
Is it uncivilized for a society with the power to save someone to let them die? Australia, Germany, Canada, France, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom are only a few of the world leaders where a pers ...
27 Jul, 2017
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Judge: Partisan Gerrymandering "A Cancer on Our Democracy"
"A cancer on our democracy."Those are the words U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar used to describe the two-party gerrymandering scheme going on in Maryland and across the country.A US district ...
17 Jul, 2017
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44 States Stand Up to the White House? Not Quite...
The biggest headline this week on President Donald Trump's election integrity commission is that 44 states plus DC have partly or fully rejected the commission's request for a broad array of personal ...
06 Jul, 2017
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Efficiency Gap: The Greatest Weapon to Fight Partisan Gerrymandering
The fight against gerrymandering nationwide is taking a new turn. Courts are no longer just looking at discrimination based on race, sex, or class, but political discrimination and partisan motives to ...
26 Jun, 2017
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Coalition Sues Pennsylvania over Partisan Gerrymandering
Pennsylvania is the latest battleground over the issue of partisan gerrymandering.Several plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging congressional maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Pennsylv ...
16 Jun, 2017
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Hold Your Horses: SCOTUS Considers Bigger Gerrymandering Case than North Carolina
Progressive politicians and pundits are collectively celebrating the Supreme Court's ruling that North Carolina illegally used racial gerrymandering to draw its congressional districts. But even autho ...
25 May, 2017
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