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- 1From:AEI Paper & StudiesKey Points * Congress created the US Postal Service (USPS) in 1970 as an independent government agency to free it from deleterious political influence from presidents and legislators. * Congress also gave the USPS...
- 2From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsJanuary 13, 2023 This Legal Sidebar is the first in a six-part series that discusses the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which recognized women's voting rights. Shortly before Election Day 2022, a group of...
- 3From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsJanuary 13, 2023 This Legal Sidebar is the third in a six-part series that discusses the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which recognized women's voting rights. Shortly before Election Day 2022, a group of...
- 4From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsJanuary 13, 2023 This Legal Sidebar is the fifth in a six-part series that discusses the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which recognized women's voting rights. Shortly before Election Day 2022, a group of...
- 5From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsNovember 16, 2022 Following each decennial census, the 435 seats in the House are apportioned--or divided up--among the 50 states (U.S. Const. amend. XIV, [section] 2, cl. 1; 2 U.S.C. [section] 2a(a)). Accordingly, to...
- 6From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsThe federal courts issue hundreds of decisions every week in cases involving diverse legal disputes. This Sidebar series selects decisions from the past week that may be of particular interest to federal lawmakers,...
- 7From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsJune 27, 2022 Congress has recently considered legislation that would amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). For example, during the 117th Congress, the House passed H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights...
- 8From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsFebruary 22, 2022 The Supreme Court has agreed to consider a significant case challenging an Alabama congressional redistricting map under the Voting Rights Act (VRA). On February 7, in the consolidated case Merrill v....
- 9From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsJanuary 10, 2022 The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021, S. 4 (117th Congress), currently pending in the Senate, would primarily amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). In part, S. 4 appears to...
- 10From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsJanuary 10, 2022 The federal courts issue hundreds of decisions every week in cases involving diverse legal disputes. This Sidebar series selects decisions from the past week that may be of particular interest to...
- 11From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsIn August 2021, the Census Bureau released the 2020 redistricting data, and based on that data, states have begun the process of congressional redistricting. Redistricting is the drawing of district boundaries within...
- 12From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsAugust 20, 2021 The Voting Rights Act (VRA) was enacted to protect equal access to elections for all eligible Americans. In particular, and in response to widespread disenfranchisement between the post-Civil War period...
- 13From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsJuly 14, 2021 For the first time, the Supreme Court has issued a decision interpreting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in the context of state voting rules. On July 1, 2021, the Court in Brnovich v. Democratic...
- 14From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsIn a potentially significant case, the Supreme Court is considering the proper standard for evaluating claims of discriminatory voting laws under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). On March 2, 2021, the...
- 15From:Yearbook of European LawThis article critically evaluates the right to petition the European Parliament, a right which has not managed, to date, to constitute a credible alternative for citizens' participation in the EU. It argues that there...
- 16From:AEI Paper & StudiesFirst-time voters, who tend to be younger, generally vote for Democratic presidential candidates. Members of union households usually vote for Democratic presidential candidates. LGBT voters vote solidly for Democratic...
- 17From:AEI Paper & StudiesThe first exit poll of voters leaving the polls was conducted in 1968. Since that time, individually or in a consortium, the networks have conducted national exit polls. In 2018, AP VoteCast started with its own poll of...
- 18From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsJuly 10, 2020 On July 6, 2020, the Supreme Court unanimously held that states may punish or replace presidential electors who refuse to cast their ballots for the candidate chosen by the voters of their state. In the...
- 19From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsMay 15, 2020 As a result of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there have been concerns about the potential impact on the 2020 federal election cycle. Some states have delayed primary elections, and, in...
- 20From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsApril 14, 2020 COVID-19 has had an impact on almost every facet of American life. Congress has not been spared. Largely because the risk of transmission of the disease is highest in concentrated groups, there have been...