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Служба общественных новостей: Группы по защите избирательных прав называют усилия по проведению конституционного съезда угрозой демократии

Джефф Фостер, исполнительный директор Common Cause Massachusetts, заявил, что в Конституции нет правил, определяющих порядок проведения съезда, и никакие гарантии, даже Первая поправка, не будут надежными.

«Если мы откроем этот ящик Пандоры, возникнет огромный риск и потенциальный вред всему, что уже закреплено в нашей Конституции», — предупредил Фостер.

Фостер отметил, что съезд потенциально может позволить неизбранным делегатам и группам особых интересов закрепить свою повестку дня в учредительном документе.

Colorado Newsline: Trump brief asks Supreme Court to put ‘decisive end’ to 14th Amendment challenges

Colorado Common Cause, which supported the plaintiffs’ case with an amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief before the Colorado Supreme Court, on Friday urged the U.S. Supreme Court “to set a critical legal precedent to safeguard the future of American democracy.”

“The Supreme Court must embrace its role as an active defender of our Constitution, or else it may crumble under the immense pressure it will surely face in the years to come,” Aly Belknap, the group’s executive director, said in a statement.

Yahoo! News/Providence Journal: ‘Relentless grind’: Providence City Council is a big job. Some members aren’t always doing it.

"Certainly the fact that it is very low-paying, that’s kind of a reflection of the value that has pervaded for a long time in America – that legislatures should be made up of regular citizens or residents of the state or city that they’re representing," said John Marion, executive director of Common Cause Rhode Island. "But we know that it can result in bodies not being necessarily as representative of a community as [they] could be because the lack of pay means that people who don’t have flexible jobs or don’t have a source of...

Texas Tribune/San Antonio Express-News: председатель Республиканской партии Техаса Мэтт Ринальди поддержал группу, связанную с сторонниками превосходства белой расы, работая при этом на её спонсора-миллиардера.

Энтони Гутьеррес, исполнительный директор правозащитной группы Common Cause Texas, заявил, что юридическое представительство Ринальди в отношении Уилкса было «шокирующим», особенно в свете продолжающихся скандалов с участием Defend Texas Liberty, в которых участвовал Ринальди.

«Мы все знаем, что деньги — это власть в политике Техаса, и миллиардеры вроде Уилксов щедро используют своё богатство, чтобы постоянно менять государственную политику по своему усмотрению», — сказал он. «Но это всё равно довольно шокирует».

Yahoo! News/Kansas City Star: Do you trust far-right politicians working to remake the Kansas and US Constitutions?

“The delegates could write amendments that revoke any of our most cherished rights — like our right to peaceful protest, our freedom of religion, or our right to privacy,” the progressive watchdog group Common Cause warns. Hyperbole? Maybe. The point is we simply don’t know.

Public News Service: Bill aims to restore voting rights for those incarcerated in Alabama, US

Keisha Morris Desir, justice and mass incarceration project manager for Common Cause, said the Inclusive Democracy Act is the first of its kind to include voting rights for people even if they are still behind bars.

"This is the first really expansive bill that would allow everyone -- including those who are currently incarcerated, on parole and probation -- to vote in a federal election," Desir explained.

Detroit News: Redistricting commission will ‘consider its options’ after federal judges ordered a redraw

Common Cause Michigan welcomed the judges' decision, but urged that the commissioners be allowed to redraw the maps.

"We're glad to see all voices protected in our democratic process, especially Black Michiganders who have often been intentionally left out," Common Cause Michigan Executive Director Quentin Turner said in a Friday statement. "Despite the redraw, we believe independent commissions, and not legislators, are the best way to achieve fair maps. The voters should always be able to choose their elected leaders — not...

Yahoo! News/The Hill: Lobbying World

Virginia Kase Solomón will be the next president and CEO of Common Cause. Currently CEO of the League of Women Voters, she will start her new role in February and will be the first Hispanic person to lead the democratic watchdog. She succeeds Karen Hobert Flynn, who died this spring after three decades with the organization.

Los Angeles Times/Tribune News: Environmentalists investing in Big Oil? Inside the surprising stock portfolios of California lawmakers

“A lot of these people tell their constituents what they think they want to hear even if they don’t necessarily believe in it or they’re not doing necessarily what’s in the best interest of the public, but themselves,” said Sean McMorris, who focuses on transparency, ethics and accountability at California Common Cause, a government watchdog group.

Public News Service: ‘Inclusive Democracy Act’ would expand ballot access for people in prison

The nonprofit Common Cause helped to create the National Voting in Prison Coalition.

Keshia Morris Desir, justice and mass incarceration project manager for the group, explained the bill, known as the Inclusive Democracy Act, would restore the right to vote in federal elections for individuals who are incarcerated or on probation and parole.

"What that does is help to disenfranchise the 4.6 million individuals that currently do not have access to the ballot box in federal elections," Morris Desir explained.

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