Ari Berman
Author: Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America Writer: Speaking: [email protected]
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The House just voted to hold two top Trump officials in criminal contempt
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Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross could now be subject to a court order or even prosecution.
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Ari Berman Breaking: House votes 230-198 to hold AG Barr & Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for withholding key documents about origins of census citizenship question following subpoena. First time House has voted to hold Trump officials in criminal contempt 6d
Trump dropped the census citizenship question. He could still shift power to white Republicans.
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Republicans have a new plan to stop counting huge numbers of people of color.
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Ari Berman It’s not just the racist rhetoric. Trump has a new plan to exclude huge numbers of people of color from political representation through his census executive order 6d
Rulings On Gerrymandering And The Census Could Define The Political Future
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Mother Jones journalist Ari Berman says recent Supreme Court decisions on redistricting and the 2020 census citizenship question will help determine which party is in power in the next decade.
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Ari Berman Extreme gerrymandering Rigging census Modern-day poll taxes I discussed all the ways democracy being subverted on today. Please listen & share 14d
Trump administration shockingly revives push for census citizenship question
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The administration reversed positions days after it said census forms would be printed without the citizenship question
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Ari Berman I can't overstate what a farce this is: 3 days ago Trump admin says census forms will be printed without citizenship question Then Trump angrily tweets, DOJ reverses & says looking for "new rationale" to justify it, but still can't say what that is 18d
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Ari Berman New: In call with Maryland judge Department of Justice reversed position there will be no citizenship question on 2020 census and said “they have been instructed to see whether there is a path forward” to reviving question & will appeal to SCOTUS if so 20d
There will not be a citizenship question on the 2020 census
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Trump administration lawyers confirmed Tuesday that they wouldn't include the controversial question.
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Ari Berman Huge breaking news: Trump admin drops push to add citizenship question to 2020 census. This is enormous victory for democracy 21d
“A largely accurate affair.”
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Ari Berman GOP trying to subvert democracy for next decade through extreme gerrymandering & rigging census. I discussed with on today's 21d
The courts won't end gerrymandering. Eric Holder has a plan to fix it without them.
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While Democrats are fixated on 2020, Holder is fighting for fairer maps in 2021 and beyond.
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Ari Berman After SCOTUS upheld partisan gerrymandering the fight over who will control next cycle of redistricting is biggest sleeper story of 2020 Read my new feature about ’s plan to rebuild Dem power in states & pass fairer maps in 2021 22d
Help Florida's Returning Citizens Pay Fines and Fees
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Donate today to help people with past convictions in Florida pay their fines and fees so they can move on with their lives.
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Ari Berman Here’s direct link where you can help pay off fines & fees for people with past felony convictions so that they can vote 24d
ACLU Complaint
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Source document contributed to DocumentCloud by Ari Berman (Mother Jones).
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Ari Berman Breaking: files lawsuit against new FL law requiring people with past felony convictions to pay all fines, fees & restitution before voting, saying it "will have a massive disenfranchising effect" 25d
We Got the VOTE
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We passed Amendment 4! Over 1.4 million Floridians with past felony convictions have their voting rights restored, the largest expansion of democracy in 50 years. Now, we need to make sure everyone can register to vote and have their voices heard.
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Ari Berman ., which led the effort to pass Amendment 4, has started a new fund to help people pay off their fines & fees so that they will be able to vote 25d
Florida approved a huge expansion of voting rights. The governor just gutted it.
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The new law could help keep the state red by preventing ex-felons from voting.
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Ari Berman Breaking: FL gov Ron DeSantis signs bill requiring people with past felony convictions to pay all restitution, fines & fees before voting. This is modern day poll tax gutting historic ballot initiative approved by 64% voters & could block 1000s from polls 25d
Elena Kagan's dissent in the gerrymandering case is pure fire
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In her dissent, Justice Elena Kagan said the Supreme Court's conservative majority abdicated its role to protect voters' rights.
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Ari Berman In a fair world Elena Kagan would be Chief Justice & John Roberts would be writing bitter dissents 26d
The Supreme Court just delivered the doomsday scenario for voting rights
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The court found that partisan gerrymandering can't be blocked by the judiciary, even in extreme cases.
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Ari Berman By ruling that federal courts cannot review partisan gerrymandering no matter how extreme, John Roberts virtually ensured that the gerrymandering after 2020 will be even more extreme than in 2010. As Kagan wrote in her dissent, this is "rigging elections" 26d
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Ari Berman Roberts said that if courts can't strike down partisan gerrymandering, states could still adopt independent redistricting commissions But in 2015 he said those commissions were unconstitutional The height of hypocrisy 26d
June 24, 2019 Opinion by U.S. District Judge George Hazel
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Source document contributed to DocumentCloud by Hansi Wang (NPR).
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Ari Berman New: Maryland judge says smoking gun evidence showing GOP gerrymandering mastermind behind census citizenship question "potentially connects the dots between a discriminatory purpose—diluting Hispanics’ political power—and Secretary Ross’s decision" 29d
Wisconsin's Supreme Court just solidified Republican control of the state
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Wisconsin’s highest court reinstated laws stripping power from the new governor.
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Ari Berman While everyone is focused on SCOTUS, GOP-aligned state courts doing real damage to democracy. Wisconsin Supreme Court just upheld lame duck legislative coup stripping power from Dem gov & AG 32d
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Ari Berman Conservative majority on Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld: Lame duck legislative coup Voter suppression laws Rollback of campaign finance regulations Gutting unions Pay attention to how GOP states attacking democracy 32d
Will John Roberts' legacy be upholding white power?
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A decision in favor of the census citizenship question would cap off a long career of rolling back voting rights.
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Ari Berman If John Roberts upholds citizenship question on 2020 census it will be crystal clear that the only institution he’s committed to preserving is white supremacy My new piece for 34d
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Ari Berman John Roberts has been trying to roll back voting rights for people of color since he worked in Reagan DOJ. He wrote opinion gutting Voting Rights Act. Upholding census citizenship question would cement legacy of rigging democracy to preserve white power 34d
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Ari Berman 6 years ago today Supreme Court gutted Voting Rights Act, one of worst decisions in modern history. “Things have changed dramatically” in the South wrote John Roberts, but his decision unleashed wave of new voter suppression in states like TX, NC & GA 28d
House Democrats just voted to hold two top Trump officials in contempt
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The attorney general and commerce secretary have refused to provide key documents about why they added a citizenship question to the 2020 census
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Ari Berman Trump admin has repeatedly lied under oath about why it added citizenship question to 2020 census & now invoking executive privilege to hide key docs calls it “one of the most unprecedented cover-ups since Watergate” 41d
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Ari Berman Trump’s census cover up: 1. Lie about reasons for citizenship question 2. Hide role of GOP gerrymandering guru 3. Ignore Congressional subpoena 4. Invoke executive privilege over key docs Why House Oversight voted to hold Barr & Ross in contempt 41d
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Ari Berman Breaking: House Oversight Committee votes to hold AG Barr & Commerce Sec Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over key docs about origins of 2020 census citizenship question following bipartisan subpoena 41d
New revelations from hard drives of deceased GOP operative
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Thomas Hofeller's files appear to reveal that North Carolina Republicans lied in court to keep their gerrymandered and unconstitutional map a little longer.
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Ari Berman North Carolina GOP discriminated against black voters to maximize white voting power, then lied in court to cover up their racism & avoid new elections. And those gerrymandered maps drawn by same guy behind census citizenship question. So outrageous 43d
That controversial GOP gerrymandering guru? Three big Supreme Court cases hinge on his work.
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Tom Hofeller’s efforts to boost Republican candidates go well beyond pushing for a citizenship question on the census.
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Ari Berman GOP election rigging playbook: 1. Draw gerrymandered maps to discriminate against Dems & minority voters 2. Lie to federal court about it 3. Rig census to further gerrymandering advantage for next decade 4. Get SCOTUS to uphold 46d
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Ari Berman Joining tonight to discuss how GOP gerrymandering guru drew extreme racial gerrymander in NC & GOP lied about it to avoid special elections. This + smoking gun docs about census citizenship question show how democracy being undermined 46d