and just lifted, The Republican Party Emerges From Decades of Court Supervision After being bound by a consent decree for 35 years, the Republican National Committee is now free to continue its “ballot security” campaign. Vann R. Newkirk II Jan 9, 2018 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-gop-just-received-another-tool-for-suppressing-votes/550052/