Right Turn

Republican-led legislatures and governors have made significant changes on pension reform, collective bargaining, voter identification, abortion, immigration and gun control, among others. A survey by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law found several demographic groups that tend to vote Democratic- African Americans, young people and poor people-were less likely than the general population to have a photo identification.\n Once laws are on the books it can be difficult to get them off, as House Republicans learned when they tried to repeal federal health care reform.