In her remarks Thursday, Clinton tried to pin poor voter participation on Republicans, saying they're "systematically and deliberately trying to stop millions of Americans from voting" through laws that limit early voting, require voters to show government-issued ID at the polls, and by avoiding federal oversight of election changes.
How could the oversight of academies change?
The provision allows federal oversight of election law changes in some places.
Charlie Savage explains how a Supreme Court decision to gut or strike down the centerpiece of the Voting Rights Act could affect oversight of voting law changes in states and localities.
By throwing out a crucial portion of the Voting Rights Act that required federal oversight of voting-related changes in areas with a history of disenfranchisement, it has opened the door to an unprecedented rollback of voter protections.
A recent VICE News analysis found that since the Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 — which once required federal oversight of certain local changes to voting — previously supervised jurisdictions shut down, on average, nearly 20percentt more polling stations per capita than jurisdictions in other parts of the country.
In California, a state with little oversight of groundwater use, change is also afoot.
― would have placed the independent congressional ethics office under the oversight of the House Ethics Committee, changed the OCE's name and barred the office from releasing reports to the public.
In fact, the critics say, the leniency in punishment over the last three years continues to demonstrate that the department does not have a commitment to discipline officers in excessive force cases and that only institutional and structural change under the oversight of a monitor can change the department's culture.
Changing the way Congress conducts oversight is more a matter of changes in its rules than passing measures for the president to sign.
