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How the Movement to ‘Free D.C.’ Became a Civil Rights Struggle
10 Sep 2025 11:28 GMT
… to treat the District of Columbia, also known as Washington, D.C., as a … Congress passed the District of Columbia Suffrage Act, which granted voting rights to all … Other conservatives insisted that the amendment would violate the constitutional provision …
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Opinion: Of course the Voting Rights Act would die at this moment
27 Aug 2025 12:36 GMT
… Act of 1964 in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 1964. … AP Photo)
Questions about the Voting Rights Act’s constitutionality have long … doubt the most complicated voting rights case I have ever … prove,” he wrote.
The amendment passed after a leading Republican …
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A Congressional Task Force on Territories’ Voting Rights
17 Aug 2025 06:25 GMT
… Task Force on Voting Rights of United States … District of Columbia got the right to vote in presidential elections through an amendment … in providing full voting rights to the citizens … D.C. the vote might help, though it doesn’t provide voting rights …
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Professor Turley Gets the D.C. Statehood Controversy Wrong (a Deep Dive)
16 Aug 2025 23:17 GMT
… notes, at one time, the District of Columbia was actually a square, turned … have the same voting rights because you live in D.C. that is very … reabsorbed the remainder of D.C., how could this amendment possibly operate?
That …
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Pentagon chief endorses Christian nationalist push to give voting rights to households, not women
13 Aug 2025 21:02 GMT
“In my ideal society, we would vote as households,” a pastor tells CNN. “And I would ordinarily be the one that would cast the vote, but I would cast the vote having discussed it with my household.”
Another agrees, saying he’d back an end to a woman’s …
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Voting Rights Act Fast Facts
08 Aug 2025 20:45 GMT
… District Court for the District of Columbia. Yet Section 5 … district court in the District of Columbia. Chief Justice John … of Representatives. The Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2015 is … private individuals to bring Voting Rights Act lawsuits challenging …
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Democrats reintroduce John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act as the landmark legislation marks 60 years
07 Aug 2025 01:13 GMT
… D.C. have introduced legislation to expand and protect voting rights nationwide … threshold
The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, named … of attacking our fundamental voting rights. From making it harder … of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause
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History Worth Knowing: The 60th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act (1965)
06 Aug 2025 06:07 GMT
… the District Court for the District of Columbia or the U.S. … unconstitutional under the 14th amendment.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 … :
The 23d Amendment is ratified, granting Washington, D.C. residents the … U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 1965.
Aug …
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The Voting Rights Act at 60: Advocates Fight Against Voter Suppression in D.C. and Nationwide
06 Aug 2025 04:02 GMT
… voting rights conversation starts with D.C. statehood.
“D.C. statehood should be the first issue,” D.C … February 3, 1870. Functionally, the amendment gave Black men— the overwhelming … to govern ourselves in the District of Columbia until Black people were free …
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Christian nationalist church challenges women’s right to vote around anniversary of Tennessee ratifying the 19th Amendment
26 Aug 2025 00:17 GMT
… support repealing the 19th Amendment in an interview with … recently opened church in Washington, D.C., with the express purpose … was strange that, with individual voting rights, a husband and wife … make (repealing the 19th Amendment) their main issue right …