Analysis: It's Mueller time at last
a strict new law to limit voter registration campaigns. In Florida, Republicans are on the verge of demanding that nonviolent felons — newly enfranchised by a state constitutional amendment — pay off court debts before they try to vote again.with same-day registration and no-excuse early voting.
In Michigan's case, the changes to voting laws came only after a referendum in November. In most cases, there has been some Republican buy-in when voting“While voting restrictions are happening at the hands of the Republicans, the expansion of voting rights is happening with input from both parties,” said Wendy Weiser, the director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.
Democrats in red states are asking presidential candidates to speak up about the laws. Many have already. Sen. Kamala D. Harris has attacked the Florida bill, and former congressman Beto O'Rourke's stump speech includes a specific attack on Texas laws that don't allow student IDs as forms of voter identification. In his own stump, Sen.
Terry's plan was buried at the end of a 25-minute video, after some updates on the news from Washington and the activist's personal endorsement of a Philadelphia-based guitar manufacturer . But the protest made a bigger splash than anything Terry, 60, had done in a decade.a Buttigieg rally in Des Moines by shouting “Sodom and Gomorrah! Remember Sodom and Gomorrah!” The candidate, who is already the highest-polling gay contender for the presidency in American history, brushed it off.
Buttigieg, who came out of the closet after entering politics, has largely received positive coverage over the idea that he’d break a historical barrier. It’s been only 10 years since Iceland’s Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir became the first gay political leader of any country, and only four years since the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges established a constitutional right for same-sex couples to get married.
“The fact that Mr. Buttigieg considers himself to be gay is of no particular import to us,” Brown continued. “What is of great importance, however, is using the false notion that sexual orientation is immutable to impact public policy on issues such as marriage and gender.”
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