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editorial | CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Now marching online

  April 14, 2012

The American Legislative Exchange Council, the group funded in part by the conservative Koch brothers to draft bills for state legislators, is the type of shadowy, under-the-radar operation that exerts huge influence over state lawmaking. It has written the “stand your ground’’ statutes in many states, and pushed voter-ID laws that strike at poor and minority citizens. So it’s more than just desserts that ALEC would get its comeuppance from another under-the-radar group, the liberal ColorofChange.org.

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