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2025年1月17日 · In 2024, Politics Is Local. Bolts covers the nuts and bolts of power and political change, from the local up. We report on the places, people, and policies that shape public policy. We focus on criminal justice and voting rights, and delve further in …
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Bolts is the new home of “What’s on the Ballot,” a platform that since 2018 has offered cheatsheets and databases to organize the chaos of U.S. democracy. “What’s on the Ballot” is now continuing to help readers follow elections small and big, local and national, by producing more cheatsheets and information.
On Voting Rights, Eight Legal Battles to Watch in 2025
2025年1月17日 · 1. Will a redistricting case out of Louisiana weaken the VRA?. Conservatives are pursuing a multi-pronged attack to eliminate what is left of the Voting Rights Act. Since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions in 2023, conservatives have objected with renewed vigor to the longstanding approach of considering race in redistricting to create minority-majority ...
Voting Rights - Bolts
2024年11月22日 · Who Runs Our Elections? Our Bolts resources compile, state-by-state, the local and state offices responsible for administering elections, and those responsible for counting and certifying results.These sleepy offices hold a great deal of discretion over our democracy.
This City Inspired A New National Standard for Policing …
2 天之前 · Voters in Grants Pass, Oregon, elected a new mayor and four new city councilors with far-right politics in November. The GOP-backed bunch was sworn in on Jan. 6, 2025, and called a special meeting the following afternoon, at which it doubled down on the type of anti-homeless policies that made Grants Pass famous last year when its case was heard by the highest court in …
The Local Elections That Will Define Criminal Justice Policy in 2025
2025年1月7日 · As executive director of the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, Amy Torres cheered on state officials in recent years for passing new protections to shield immigrants from arrest and detention.In 2019, she supported the Democratic attorney general’s directive to restrict how local law enforcement can partner with federal immigration services.
Downballot Stakes: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
2024年10月23日 · Our team at Bolts has spent much of the last year reporting on the stakes of the 2024 elections. Then last month, we turned the mic over to you: As part of our series “Ask Bolts,” we invited you to send us your questions about what is brewing in November. I answered six of your questions in the first part of our mailbag two weeks ago, from the role of state auditors to the most pivotal ...
Powered by Native Voters, Ranked-Choice Voting and Open …
2024年11月22日 · Powered by Native Voters, Ranked-Choice Voting and Open Primaries Survive in Alaska. Alaska’s predominantly Native regions delivered huge margins against repealing the state’s new elections system, despite facing continued logistical challenges to voting.
How Chicago’s Immigrant Rights Groups Plan to Hold the Line on ...
3 天之前 · Chicago has had some degree of sanctuary protections since 1985, when then-Mayor Harold Washington restricted city employees from investigating residents’ legal status and barred cooperation with federal immigration authorities. The city council strengthened those protections by designating Chicago as a so-called Welcoming City in 2006. During Trump’s first term, immigrant rights groups ...
Parole Plunges in South Carolina as Governor-Appointed Board
2024年6月3日 · In South Carolina, parole has long already been an unfair process. The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change published a study this month finding that Black people in the state were denied parole at significantly higher rates than their white counterparts from 2006 to 2016. More than 60 percent of the state’s prison population is Black compared to 27 percent of the ...