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Democracy Reform and Voting Rights in the United States

Collected by: Columbia University Libraries

Archived since: Mar, 2021

Description:

In 2020 the ongoing partisan struggle in the United States between advocates for voting rights and official proponents of voter suppression measures came to a head during a bitter presidential election campaign conducted amidst the substantial additional challenges to participatory democracy posed by the global pandemic. The election saw historic turnout, but also a sustained effort by the defeated incumbent to challenge the election’s legitimacy, spurring a violent insurrection on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to attempt to disrupt the U.S Congress from certifying the Electoral College results. As the Biden administration gets underway with narrow Democratic Party control of the House and Senate, while legislatures in multiple states are advancing new voter restrictions, structural democracy reform and voting rights will be at the heart of major legislative debates in 2021 and beyond. Columbia University Libraries has initiated a new thematic web archive collection devoted to documenting these historic debates and any ensuing legislation, both at the national and in selected local contexts, focusing on democracy reform and voting rights and subtopics including: campaign finance reform; electoral college reform (including the National Popular Vote interstate compact); the equal-time rule; gerrymandering; ranked-choice voting; universal voter registration; voter identification; voter suppression; DC Statehood; Puerto Rico Statehood; and Supreme Court expansion/reform.

Subject:   Government - National,  Government - US States,  Politics & Elections,  Puerto Rico,  Washington (D.C.),  U.S. states,  Statehood (American politics),  Representative government and representation,  Suffrage,  Voting,  Democracy

Coverage:   United States

Collector:   Columbia University Libraries

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Title: “Court Packing”: Legislative Control over the Size of the Supreme Court

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10562

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Subject:   Courts,  United States. Supreme Court ,  Judges--Selection and appointment,  Legislative powers

Creator:   Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

Collector:   Columbia University Libraries

Title: Demand Justice

URL: https://demandjustice.org/

Description: "Demand Justice is working to restore balance to the courts by reforming the Supreme Court, expanding the circuit and district courts, and championing new judges with experience as public defenders, civil rights lawyers, legal aid lawyers, and labor lawyers who represent working people."

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Subject:   Courts,  United States. Supreme Court

Creator:   Demand Justice (Organization)

Collector:   Columbia University Libraries

Title: Fix the Court

URL: https://fixthecourt.com/

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Subject:   Courts,  United States. Supreme Court ,  Term limits (Public office),  Judges--Selection and appointment

Creator:   Fix the Court (Organization)

Collector:   Columbia University Libraries

Title: Alliance for Justice

URL: https://www.afj.org/

Description: "Alliance for Justice (AFJ) is a national association of 150 organizations representing a broad array of civil rights, environmental, immigration, disability, consumer, workers, women’s, LGBTQ, and other groups committed to democratic values and the creation of an equitable, just, and free society."

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Subject:   Courts,  United States. Supreme Court ,  Judges--Selection and appointment,  Democracy

Creator:   Alliance for Justice

Coverage:   United States

Collector:   Columbia University Libraries

Title: Myth Busters: The Facts About Supreme Court Expansion

URL: https://www.demos.org/policy-briefs/myth-busters-facts-about-supreme-court-expansion

Description: Policy brief from Demos.org on Supreme Court expansion

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Subject:   United States. Supreme Court ,  Judges--Selection and appointment,  Courts

Creator:   Williamson, Laura (Voting rights advocate)

Collector:   Columbia University Libraries

Title: Code of conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States

URL: https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/Code-of-Conduct-for-Justices_November_13_2023.pdf

Description: "The undersigned Justices are promulgating this Code of Conduct to set out succinctly and gather in one place the ethics rules and principles that guide the conduct of the Members of the Court."

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Subject:   United States. Supreme Court ,  Courts,  Judicial ethics

Creator:   United States. Supreme Court

Coverage:   United States

Collector:   Columbia University Libraries

Title: Take Back the Court Action Fund

URL: https://www.takebackthecourt.today/

Description: "Our mission is to inform the public about the danger that the Supreme Court poses to democracy, and about the viability of court expansion—adding seats to the Court—as the only strategy that re-balances the court after its 2016 theft."

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Subject:   Courts,  United States. Supreme Court ,  Judges

Creator:   Take Back the Court Action Fund

Coverage:   United States

Collector:   Columbia University Libraries

Title: Presidential Commission on SCOTUS

URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/pcscotus/

Description: "On April 9, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14023 forming the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, comprised of a bipartisan group of experts on the Court and the Court reform debate."

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Subject:   United States. Supreme Court ,  Courts,  Judges--Selection and appointment

Creator:   United States. Presidential Commission on SCOTUS

Coverage:   United States

Collector:   Columbia University Libraries

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