A Turning Point in the Ongoing Debate on Book Banning

Democrats and their allies are ramping up their opposition to Republican-led book bans happening across the country. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have been increasingly vocal about the issue, connecting it to restrictions on abortion and voting rights to argue that “MAGA extremists” are threatening personal freedoms. Illinois recently became the first …

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Supreme Court Delivers Uncommon Win for Voting Rights

A decade of disappointment has conditioned Black Americans and Democrats to fear voting rights rulings from the Supreme Court. In 2013, a majority vote of 5-4 invalidated a core principle of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Since then, subsequent decisions have further deteriorated the law, culminating in a 2019 ruling that federal courts have …

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