Sierra Voices Editor’s Note: This is the first of two partially excerpted articles today on the same subject, the right-wing effort to rewrite the Constitution, a prospect which should frighten every American who has even the most rudimentary understanding and appreciation for our founding document. Our democracy has never been in greater danger than…
Here’s the background you need to know in order to understand the essay below by Thom Hartmann: “Contrary to popular belief, there is not an affirmative right to vote in the U.S. Constitution “While the U.S. Constitution bans the restriction of voting based on race, sex and age, it does not explicitly and affirmatively…
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From Greg Palast article in Capital Times: “Today, the Wisconsin Supreme Court may choose our President. That is, justices will hear arguments in a lawsuit that would force the state to remove 129,000 from the voter rolls on grounds they’d moved from their registration addresses. “But a report by the nation’s top experts in…