Gerrymandering: Moving from ‘cracking’ and ‘packing’ to fairness

On Oct. 3, the United States Supreme Court heard Gil vs. Whitford, a Wisconsin case regarding extreme partisan gerrymandering of the Wisconsin Legislature. In that case, Republicans drew a legislative […]

By Reuters/New York Times CHARLESTON, S.C. – South Carolina said on Monday that it would no longer defend a key part of a 2011 law that required police to check […]

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Tuesday August 28, 2012 A race against time to get Latinos registered to vote (Voxxi): For get-out-the vote efforts, it seems like it’s going to be a race against the […]

Monday August 27, 2012 Watch: Are Latino college enrollment gains enough? (ecampus news): HuffPost Live’s Alicia Menendez sets the stage to a great conversation by framing the issue of Latino educational […]

Go ahead, call Newt Gingrich a deceptive, racist, amoral sack of putrid excrement. Go ahead and question his ethics and bring up that, during his tenure as Speaker of the House, […]

By Christopher Rangel South Carolina ranked number one in Latino growth for the 2000-2010 decade with a growth rate of 148%, at the same time that  legislators followed Arizona’s footsteps with one […]

Mitt Romney was acting a bit temperamental  yesterday as he sought votes from  Latinos, particularly in Florida. He proudly released a Spanish language video in which his son Craig spoke […]

South Carolina is up next, they’re calling it Alabama-lite. Think of it as the next falling domino in the contrived line of  state-level immigration laws. The Alabama  law has become the high standard […]

Not sure if this is a back-handed comment, just plain racist or simply an honest opinion. South Carolina State Senator Robert Ford, D-Charleston, said that Latino immigrants were necessary because […]