April 14, 2020 – Wisconsin voters were dealt a bad hand–a pandemic during a statewide election and a Democratic primary. The options: putting them in harms way, shuttering their polling places, or ending the statewide absentee ballot campaigns. By no fault of their own, these voters were caught in the…
Nov. 8, 2019 – There has been much controversy in Washington about the Trump impeachment inquiry–but many working in our nation’s government on the other side of the aisle seem to have no have no clue as to what is really going on. They make excuse after excuse for the…
October 28, 2018 – The state of Massachusetts is voting on a ballot question in the upcoming 2018 mid-term election. This question–one of first impression in any state–asks the people of Massachusetts if they would be in favor of a Constitutional Amendment to ensure that corporations do not have the…
June 19, 2018 – The US Supreme Court just announced their decision in two high-profile, highly-charged voter redistricting cases, Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone. To the amazement of many pundits, the Court virtually dismissed them both! So what does this all mean? Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the…
Guest: Dr. Daniel Breen, J.D., PhD,
Professor Breen is a Lecturer of Legal Studies at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. He holds a J.D. in Law from the University of Georgia, and a Ph.D. in American History from Boston College.
January 24, 2018-Recently, both the US Supreme Court and state courts have been taking up the highly controversial and highly politicized issue of political gerrymandering–that is the artificial manipulation of voting districts by those in state legislatures to favor the party in power–their own. It’s accomplished by these legislatures creating…
March 24, 2016 – As many may already be aware, the voting lines for the Presidential Primary were extraordinarily long in Maricopa County Arizona. In Maricopa, some predominantly Latino areas only got one–or no polling places at all! One might ask, How can this be, this is America? As a…
