What's on the ballot besides the presidency?

The presidential election always gets the most attention. But as voters across the nation line up to cast their ballots, statewide laws are also on the line in 32 states. Tom Hanson reports.

• Nov 1, 2020
• 01:43

Trump campaign on voting rights rulings

The Supreme Court ruled against Republicans in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, allowing absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted afterward. President Trump has insisted he wants the vote count to end on November 3. Steve Cortes, a senior adviser for the Trump campaign, joined CBSN to discuss the legal fight.

• Oct 29, 2020
• 08:47

Court blocks Wisconsin ballot extension

In a 5-3 ruling, the Supreme Court's conservative majority sided with Republicans in blocking a request to extend Wisconsin's mail-in ballot deadline. CBS News campaign reporter Cara Korte joins CBSN with the details.

• Oct 27, 2020
• 08:17

Senate panel advances Barrett's nomination

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have unilaterally advanced the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, in spite of a boycott by Democrats. Harvard Law Professor Alan Jenkins joined CBSN to break down what Barrett's impact could be on the court.

• Oct 22, 2020
• 11:11

College students face new voting challenges

CBSN political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns joins "Red & Blue" to break down the kinds of challenges college students are facing to vote due to the pandemic, plus the issues that matter most to Generation Z.

• Oct 8, 2020
• 07:25

Florida denies Amendment 4 advocate Desmond Meade full pardon

Meade pushed to re-enfranchise more than a million Floridians convicted of felonies. The deferral of his pardon points to a clemency system that's been called "broken."

• Sep 27, 2020

How many of Florida's felons will be able to vote?

Florida's Amendment 4 restored voting rights to as many as 1.4 million felons who had completed their sentences, but then things got complicated. Hundreds of thousands of ex-convicts are still disenfranchised just over a month before the presidential election.

• Sep 27, 2020

The force behind Florida's Amendment 4

Desmond Meade, who has past felony convictions himself, is the mind behind Florida's Amendment 4. Lesley Stahl reports on the legislation, Sunday.

• Sep 25, 2020
• 00:37

Battle over Florida Amendment on felon vote

As many as 1.4 million Floridians who committed felonies had their voting rights restored by Amendment 4, but legal issues over the amendment mean hundreds of thousands won't get to cast their ballot in the presidential election. 60 Minutes reports, Sunday.

• Sep 25, 2020

Formerly incarcerated face financial obstacles to voting in some states

"Standing in line with a bunch of voters, to me is like, I'm one of them, almost like I just joined the good side instead of being on the bad side for so long," said Christine Vincent, who spent two years in prison.

• Sep 24, 2020

Remembering RBG

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday at the age of 87. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty of “48 Hours” looks back at the trailblazing attorney and jurist, who fought against gender discrimination and for voting rights, and who became an icon for millions.

• Sep 20, 2020
• 10:52

Women skydivers celebrate women's suffrage

A group of women skydivers formed a team to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment. The team planned a series of jumps in locations pivotal to the women's suffrage movement. Nancy Chen reports.

• Aug 29, 2020
• 02:30

John Lewis and the power of our vote

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham says the civil rights icon wanted citizens to use their votes as a means to rebuild America "in the image of God and democracy."

• Aug 30, 2020

Celebrating 100 years of women's suffrage

August marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. While it gave women the right to vote, most Black women could not vote until the 1960s. On this historic centennial, "CBS This Morning" is exploring the long struggle for full equality. Susan Page, Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today joins the show to discuss more, and how women could shape the next election.

• Aug 25, 2020
• 04:32

How suffragists finally won the right to vote for women

100 years ago the 19th Amendment, intended to empower women with the Constitutional right to vote, was just one vote short of ratification; historians discuss how suffragists won the long-pitched battle

• Aug 23, 2020

Celebrating 100 years of voting rights for women

On this historic centennial, “CBS This Morning” is celebrating the milestone and exploring the long struggle for full equality. Adriana Diaz reports from Chicago, where she spoke to generations of women about the past, present and future fight for women's rights.

• Aug 21, 2020
• 05:21

Trump ramps up attacks on mail-in voting

President Trump is escalating his rhetoric against mail-in voting as he threatens to block funding for the U.S. Postal Service ahead of the November election. CBSN political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns has done extensive reporting on this issue, and she joins CBSN to explain the latest developments as well as the latest on plans for next week's Democratic National Convention.

• Aug 14, 2020
• 07:06

Voting Rights Act turns 55

Fifty-five years ago, the Voting Rights Act was signed in to law. CBS News contributor Antjuan Seawright joins CBSN to discuss unprecedented challenges for the voting process amid the coronavirus pandemic.

• Aug 6, 2020
• 10:50

Does the U.S. need another Reconstruction?

The U.S. is continuing to struggle with the consequences of slavery and generations of institutionalized racism. Brooklyn Law School associate professor Wilfred Codrington III joined CBSN to discuss his recent piece in The Atlantic about why the U.S. is in need of a third Reconstruction to correct the nation's past mistakes.

• Aug 5, 2020
• 11:04

Jamaal Bowman on historic primary victory

Official results for New York's primary elections lagged for weeks because of delays in counting absentee ballots. Jamaal Bowman didn't have to wait long to celebrate though, given his dominant victory over House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel in the Democratic primary for New York's 16th Congressional District. Bowman joined CBSN to talk about voting rights, schools and what he plans to do as a progressive in Congress.

• Jul 31, 2020
• 10:47

Trump ramps up false attacks on mail-in voting

Despite not having the power to do so, President Trump suggested the November election should be moved. His comments were roundly rejected by lawmakers of both parties as his attacks on mail-in voting continue. CBSN political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns highlighted the falsehoods by the president as well as the real problems states could face as requests for absentee ballots hit record highs.

• Jul 31, 2020
• 08:37

Honors for John Lewis

This weekend, Representative John Lewis, who died July 17 at the age of 80, will be taken by a horse-drawn carriage one last time across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in Selma, Ala., the same bridge where his peaceful protest for voting rights in 1965 was met with a violence that has become seared in our nation’s collective memory. Later, his body will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C.

• Jul 26, 2020

Many former felons still blocked from voting

In 2018, Florida voters approved a ballot measure that would return the right to vote to more than 1 million people who completed serving felony sentences in the state. But two years later, the legal fight continues. Desmond Meade of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition joined CBSN to explain why he believes a law from Florida's Republican governor and state legislature is unconstitutional.

• Jul 20, 2020
• 05:36

SCOTUS allows Florida to narrow ex-felon voting rights

The justices chose not to overturn a hold on a federal appeals court ruling that would have enfranchised the voters.

• Jul 16, 2020

Supreme Court issues voting rights rulings

The Supreme Court issued two major rulings on voting rights. One involved temporarily blocking the Trump administration's efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census and the other said federal courts cannot rule on questions of partisan gerrymandering. Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School, and Bob Cusack, editor-in-chief of The Hill, joined CBSN to discuss.

• Jun 27, 2019
• 08:12

Show More