Updates | The Week of October 16
The fight for voting rights is the struggle of our generation, writes former Attorney General Eric Holder at the Harvard Law Review Blog.
Bipartisan legislation to require social media companies to provide data on campaigns that spend at least $500 on political ads a year and to clearly depict the funders of the message was introduced in Congress (The Hill).
- The tech industry is mobilizing lobbyists and lawyers to challenge the legislation (NYT).
Wisconsin offers a perfect example of how voter suppression efforts helped President Trump in the 2016 election (Mother Jones).
Democratic senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) asked the GAO to investigate President Trump’s voting fraud commission (Talking Points Memo).
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions confirmed that DOJ has communicated with the commission (Mother Jones).