INDIANAPOLIS – Senate Democratic Caucus Chair J.D. Ford (D-Indianapolis) begins the 2021 legislative session as Ranking Minority Member on several Senate standing committees: Education and Career Development, Elections, Family and Children Services, Homeland Security and Transportation, and Veterans Affairs and the Military. He also serves [...]
Senate Democratic Caucus Chair J.D. Ford (D-Indianapolis) – and ranking minority member on the Senate Education Committee – gave the following response to the newly released Teacher Compensation Commission report: "I'm glad that state leaders may finally start to listen to Indiana's teachers. However, this [...]
INDIANAPOLIS—Applications are now open for paid internships with State Senator J.D. Ford (D-Indianapolis) and the Indiana State Senate Democratic Caucus! Interns working with the Senate Democratic Caucus are assigned to assist legislators and staff, to expand their knowledge of the Indiana General Assembly and the [...]
On Thursday, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana ruled Indiana’s signature-match requirement for mail-in absentee ballots as unconstitutional. The Court cited the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in their injunction against the law because thousands [...]
What do Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Eric Holcomb and all deployed members of the U.S. military have in common? They all voted absentee by mail in 2018. COVID-19 cases are surging across the United States, and Indiana is no exception. Just last week, Indiana broke [...]
INDIANAPOLIS — Over the weekend, State Senator Eddie Melton (D-Gary) and State Senator J.D. Ford (D-Indianapolis) joined a group of Hoosiers on the south steps of the Indiana Statehouse for the ‘Beyond the Big Tent – Black Voices in Politics' rally. Following a thunderstorm alert [...]