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Washington – In response to the news that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will retire from the Supreme Court, Demos Director of Legal Strategies Chiraag Bains released the following statement:
It’s not just a disorganized group of citizens spontaneously challenging voters at the polls. It’s a coordinated campaign by groups like True the Vote that are well funded to try and reduce voting, often for partisan advantage.
Today in Trump vs. Hawaii, the United States Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s Executive Order restricting nationals of eight countries, including six Muslim-majority countries, from entering the United States (“the travel ban”). Writing for a 5-4 majority, Chief Justice Roberts rejected challenges to the travel ban based on federal law and the First Amendment of the U.S.
Five years ago today, in Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court dismantled one of the greatest voting rights achievements in the history of this country. This morning, in Abbott v. Perez, the Court affirmed its disregard for voting discrimination by upholding racially gerrymandered districts in Texas.
NEW YORK, NY – Today Vijay Das, a campaign strategist at Demos, issued the following statement on the Trump administration’s end to the ‘zero tolerance’ immigration stance that has led to the forced separation of families and the traumatic accounts of infants and toddlers being ripped from their parents.
Repeatedly during his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump appealed to black voters by asking, “What do you have to lose?” A year and a half into the Trump administration, we have enough evidence to answer the question definitively: everything. In nearly every major federal agency, the Trump administration has pursued policies harmful to black people.
Today, on June 19th—Juneteenth—we will take a moment to consider the rights, opportunities, and commitments to racial redress that black people are losing because of the Trump administration.
[T]he public policy organization fights for racial equity, an expanded middle class and shaving the amount of money used in politics. Demos has just released a landmark report exclusively to theGrio explaining its studied view of why the Trump administration is bad for Black people and they have receipts.
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling to uphold Ohio’s controversial voter purge law spotlights the growing clout of right-wing “election integrity” groups that have aggressively bullied and sued states and jurisdictions into kicking thousands of voters off their rolls. [...]