Tag: voting rights act
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New challenge to Colorado Springs’ April elections cites state Voting Rights Act
A new challenge is brewing to Colorado Springs’ practice of holding city elections at a different time of year than the state and federal races. The League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region, Citizens Project and the Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School sent a letter to the city Thursday morning. The…
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Federal judge declines to award attorney fees in ‘very weak’ voter intimidation case
A federal judge agreed last week that three civic organizations presented a “very weak” voter intimidation case to her last year, but it was not so baseless as to award the defendants attorney fees after they prevailed at trial. Last July, U.S. District Court Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney concluded the organizers of an “election integrity”…
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10th Circuit judge, lawyers speak about ‘blockbuster-plus’ SCOTUS term at FedSoc event
A federal appeals judge from Colorado, the solicitor general of Missouri and a senior advisor to a Republican senator offered their thoughts on Tuesday about the U.S. Supreme Court’s most recent term, the magnitude of the court’s conservative lean and the impacts to the federal government’s regulatory powers going forward. “People are saying, ‘Ah, it’s…