A North Carolina federal court upheld the state’s massive voting restrictions passed in 2013, taking North Carolina from one of the best pro-voter states in the country to one of the worst.
Civil Rights groups led by the state NAACP, allege that House Bill 589 discriminated against poor and minority voters in violation of the Constitution and U.S.…
Ohio voters made it crystal clear last year that they want state legislative districts fairly drawn when they voted to end gerrymandering. State and national experts joined forces today to urge Ohio to complete the redistricting reforms by fixing the Congressional map.…
Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Herb Brown sees a connection between the voter anger feeding Donald Trump’s campaign and Senate Republicans’ ongoing efforts to not hold confirmation hearings on President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
Watch: Justice Brown explains his purpose for travelling to D.C.…
Ohio scholars from both political parties unloaded on Republicans who insist that President Obama should not fill a newly vacant U.S. Supreme Court seat. This all took place during a news conference held outside Portman’s Columbus office on March 3rd, where speakers urged Sen.…
Dewey Chaffins was 19 years old when he left Appalachia for northwestern Ohio in 1958. The youngest of 10, he’d grown up in Garrett, Kentucky, a hardscrabble coal town where his family had lived and mined for generations.…
CHICAGO — The national gun lobby in Washington, D.C. is a big machine, motored by a multi-billion-dollar industry. The sprawling network of hardcore activists remaking the political gunscape in statehouses and the courts, on the other hand, is small.…
WASHINGTON — Same-sex marriage is returning to the Supreme Court; sotto voce, for now, but soon enough with a shout.
Behind closed doors, with even their trusted clerks excluded, the court’s nine justices will gather Sept.…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in the second trial of a Florida man accused of killing a Georgia teenager during an argument over loud music outside a Jacksonville convenience store.
Attorneys for Michael Dunn, 47, want to move the first-degree murder trial away from Jacksonville, citing widespread publicity about the case.…
PROGRESSOHIO WANTS TO KNOW HOW MUCH TAXPAYERS ARE BEING CHARGED FOR PR AND CATERING AT PRO-CHARTER STATEHOUSE RALLY
COLUMBUS – ProgressOhio has learned the Gulen-affiliated charter schools in Ohio are planning a Statehouse rally Tuesday to try and combat a mountain of evidence that many of their schools hurt kids, waste taxpayer money and are the subject of an ongoing FBI investigation.…
PROGRESSOHIO WANTS TO KNOW HOW MUCH TAXPAYERS ARE BEING CHARGED FOR PR AND CATERING AT PRO-CHARTER STATEHOUSE RALLY
COLUMBUS – ProgressOhio has learned the Gulen-affiliated charter schools in Ohio are planning a Statehouse rally Tuesday to try and combat a mountain of evidence that many of their schools hurt kids, waste taxpayer money and are the subject of an ongoing FBI investigation.…