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The controversies over voting rights point to a larger issue about the nature of democracy, said Samuel Issacharoff, a law professor at New York University. 0.900

👤 Samuel Issacharoff 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: Controversies over voting rights point to larger issue about nature of democracy said Samuel Issacharoff

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6 months ago
What happens if the majority of today sees this as the last chance to take it all?” 1.000

👤 Samuel Issacharoff 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: What happens if majority of today sees this as last chance to take it all

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6 months ago
“What happens when this breaks down? 1.000

👤 Samuel Issacharoff 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: What happens when this breaks down

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6 months ago
That decision, which allowed unlimited campaign spending by corporations and unions, overturned two precedents and struck down part of a bipartisan 2002 law that sought to limit the role of money in p... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: Decision allowed unlimited campaign spending by corporations unions overturned two precedents struck down part of bipartisan 2002 law

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6 months ago
Holding Section 2 unconstitutional could be a boon for Republicans, said Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a law professor at Harvard, as it would allow states to eliminate minority-opportunity districts altog... 0.900

👤 Nicholas Stephanopoulos 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: Holding Section 2 unconstitutional could be boon for Republicans said Nicholas Stephanopoulos as it would allow states to eliminate minority-opportuni...

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6 months ago
That would make it easy, he said, to draw completely Republican maps in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and elsewhere. 0.900

👤 Nicholas Stephanopoulos 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: That would make it easy to draw completely Republican maps in Alabama Louisiana Mississippi South Carolina elsewhere

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6 months ago
“And right now it’s the other way around. The politicians are going into a room and picking their voters.” 0.900

👤 Pamela Karlan 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: The politicians are going into a room and picking their voters right now Pamela Karlan said.

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6 months ago
It was concerned with discrimination against minority voters and not with partisanship, though race and political affiliations are often hard to untangle. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: The Voting Rights Act was concerned with discrimination against minority voters and not with partisanship.

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6 months ago
At the federal level, though, what remained after Rucho was mostly a part of the Voting Rights Act. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: What remained after Rucho was mostly a part of the Voting Rights Act at the federal level.

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6 months ago
That led to a wave of measures making it harder to vote. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Voting Rights , Politics

Simplified: Elimination of Section 5 led to wave of measures making it harder to vote

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6 months ago
“We tell ourselves this story that every two years, voters go into the voting booth and pick their member of the House of Representatives,” Pamela Karlan, a law professor at Stanford and a former Just... 0.900

👤 Pamela Karlan 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: Voters go into the voting booth and pick their member of the House of Representatives every two years Pamela Karlan said.

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6 months ago
“And political actors in response are flexing the new power they have.” 0.900

👤 Derek T. Muller 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: Political actors in response are flexing the new power they have Derek T. Muller said.

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6 months ago
The Rucho decision was part of a larger trend, said Derek T. Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame. 0.900

👤 Derek T. Muller 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: The Rucho decision was part of a larger trend Derek T. Muller said.

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6 months ago
They encouraged a politics of polarization and dysfunction. 0.900

👤 Justice Elena Kagan 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: They encouraged a politics of polarization and dysfunction Justice Elena Kagan wrote.

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6 months ago
In dissent, Justice Elena Kagan said the court had betrayed its most fundamental commitment — to protect democracy. 0.900

👤 Justice Elena Kagan 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: The court had betrayed its most fundamental commitment to protect democracy Justice Elena Kagan said in dissent.

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6 months ago
“These developments reflect a federal judiciary increasingly unwilling to engage in judicial review of the political process,” he said. 0.900

👤 Derek T. Muller 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: These developments reflect a federal judiciary increasingly unwilling to engage in judicial review of the political process Derek T. Muller said.

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6 months ago
“They promoted partisanship above respect for the popular will. 0.900

👤 Justice Elena Kagan 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: They promoted partisanship above respect for the popular will Justice Elena Kagan wrote.

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6 months ago
“Partisan gerrymandering claims,” he wrote, “present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.” 0.900

👤 Chief Justice Roberts 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: Partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.

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6 months ago
But in a telling statement reflecting his view of the judicial role in protecting voters, the chief justice wrote that federal courts were powerless to address this grave problem. 0.900

👤 Chief Justice Roberts 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: Federal courts were powerless to address this grave problem the chief justice wrote.

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6 months ago
“At least some of the conservative justices on the court seem ready to turn the clock back to the early 1960s,” he said, “when courts imposed very little constraints on the most blatant power grabs, a... 0.900

👤 Richard L. Hasen 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: Some of the conservative justices on the court seem ready to turn the clock back to the early 1960s.

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6 months ago