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The House GOP and right-wing judges on the Supreme Court are attacking voting rights.

Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and the other conservatives on SCOTUS recently rubber-stamped the South Carolina GOP’s new Congressional maps. The NAACP was challenging the maps for racist gerrymandering, but the right-wing court rejected the challenge.1 That could open the floodgates for more Republican-led partisan, racist gerrymandering.

The House GOP held a recent hearing to spread disinformation about voter registration and voter fraud, targeting the nonexistent problem they call “noncitizen voting.”2 The true purpose of the hearing was to gut the National Voter Registration Act, which would make it much harder for people to register to vote.

These GOP tactics hurt democracy and could ramp up voter suppression. Congress must pass new, landmark voting rights legislation immediately.

Sign the petition: Tell Congress to fight voter suppression by passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and Freedom to Vote Act!

The Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act are two transformative pieces of legislation that together would restore and modernize the full protections of the Voting Rights Act, set national standards to increase access to the ballot box, neutralize partisan and racist gerrymandering, protect our elections from interference, increase transparency in campaign finance to prevent dark money from buying our politicians, and more.

We’ve seen what state-level Republican lawmakers, the House GOP, and right-wing SCOTUS justices are willing to do to upend the principles of democracy and stop people from voting. We’ve seen what Republicans and then-President Donald Trump were willing to do to try to steal elections. It’s critical that Congress protects our democracy and our voting rights by passing the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

Add your name: Tell Congress to stop voter suppression with new landmark voting rights legislation!

Thanks for taking action,

Joey and the team at Demand Progress

Sources:

  1. Salon, “Expert says SCOTUS ruling subjects Black voters to 'abuse.' Clarence Thomas wants to go even further,” May 25, 2024.
  2. The American Prospect, “A Voting Disinformation Snapshot,” May 28, 2024.

 

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