Democratic super PAC announces $15 million campaign to fight voter suppression

Leading progressive super PAC Priorities USA announced a $15 million campaign on Monday to combat voter suppression in battleground states.

Driving the news: The group says the investment is a bid to counter policies that unfairly disenfranchise people of color, especially Black and Latino voters, after GOP-run state legislatures introduced more than 100 bills to restrict voting access following the 2020 election.

With federal voting rights legislation stalling in Congress, dozens of states have enacted laws making it more difficult for people to vote in the last two years.

Details: $10 million will go toward voter protection litigation ahead of...