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Florida‘s Republican attorney general urged the FBI and state authorities to investigate former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s pledge to spend $16 million helping felons regain their voting rights in the largest swing state.
In what is already one of the most litigious election years in U.S. history, federal lawsuits alleging violations of voters’ civil rights in the wake of election contests between February and August have soared by 82 percent over the same period in 2016, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Of the $82 million Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has spent on Facebook ads this year, $6.6 million paid for ads about crime and policing. The Joe Biden campaign spent nothing oAugustn criminal justice ads until late .
Michael Bloomberg raises $16 million to help Floridians with felony records pay court fines and fees to they can register to vote in November’s election.
Federal appeals court ruling will block hundreds of thousands with felony records from casting votes because they have not paid fines or court fees.
President Donald Trump said he believed crime was soaring in cities after protests against police brutality. A criminologist disputes the connection.
A new survey on how the presidential candidates fare on the “law and order” issue finds that forty-eight percent they are confident President Donald Trump can handle it while 52 percent were confident in Joe Biden.
Although the New York City Police Department is less than half white, the Police Benevolent Association is run by white suburban conservatives who echo President Donald Trump’s views.
So far, President Donald Trump has failed in his attempt to capitalize politically on his inflammatory remarks about the unrest in Kenosha, Wi., after the shooting of Jacob Blake.
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit means that hundreds of thousands with felony records may not be able to vote in November’s election.