Chiraag BainsOvjeren akaunt

@chiraagbains

Director of Legal Strategies, , fighting for a more inclusive democracy, fair economy & just justice system. Fmr federal civil rights prosecutor, DOJ.

Washington, DC
Vrijeme pridruživanja: lipanj 2011.

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    gutted the Voting Rights Act 6 years ago this week. Here’s what we need to do: restore the VRA *and* pass bold, democracy-enhancing reforms like , voting for the incarcerated, DC statehood, and voting rights for the territories.

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  2. As it has done in other states, Judicial Watch claimed that counties have more voters registered than are residents. The Republican 's response: "This is a false claim.”

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  3. Correction: That transcript is incorrect. Trump said "America has always been a frontier nation," not "America has always been a Christian nation."

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  4. Why is there more coverage of ripping up Trump’s speech than the fact that Trump invoked the white supremacist doctrine of “manifest destiny”?

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  5. Taking this to heart. There’s work to do!

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  6. "We want every vote counted." -

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  7. He's not being subtle. Trump invoked manifest destiny -- the 19th century idea that it was the white man's right to conquer all of North America, used to justify the killing and removal of Native peoples -- to explain why he's going to plant a flag on Mars.

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  8. Painful to hear Trump claim he’s “building an inclusive society” in . This is the man who ordered the Muslim Ban, ended DOJ’s work to ensure constitutional policing, cut food stamps for the poor, and is gutting HUD’s most important fair housing rule.

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  10. As the returns come in, keep in mind the staggering impact of permanent felony disenfranchisement on the state’s electorate. 52,000 people — including 10% of the black voting age population — couldn’t vote because of a felony conviction.

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  11. 60% more votes on the final alignment and equal credit. Whatever order the names were in, we should be talking about this.

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  12. Pay attention. We’ve seen these claims before. We’ll see a lot more of them this year.

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  13. The first votes will be counted in Iowa today. But every election, untold numbers can't vote because they're stuck in jail -- many pretrial, many because they can't afford bail. We're suing to change that, starting with Ohio.

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  15. More evidence that purging voters from the rolls 30 days after not responding to a piece of mail would be reckless.

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  16. Every state should have , for both early voting and on Election Day. Only 16 states do.

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    27. sij

    For over 40 years, Georgetown University’s Street Law Program has held law classes for people at the D.C. jail. This month, an all-female class had their first mock trial. I am — we are — more than these orange jumpsuits, and I am going to prove it.”

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  18. We need to treat this like the emergency it is.

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  19. Felony disenfranchisement laws have an ugly history & continuing impact. They proliferated after the Civil War as a way to strangle black political power. WA state’s SB6228, which would restore the vote post-incarceration, is a step in the right direction.

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  20. 6,400 people sit in jail in each month pending trial—including come election time. Life After Release and others are pushing for legislation to make sure these eligible voters can get their ballots.

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  21. 2020 marks the 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment. Until the civil rights movement won the Voting Rights Act, the amendment was a “parchment promise.” Read :

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