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Rolling Stone - 2 hours 3 min agoRepublican legislatures are using the Supreme Court's redistricting ruling as permission to rig elections...
Now is the time to envision a better electoral system, regardless of who sits on the court.
Nation Review - 4 hours 52 min ago2016 Anticipating the imminent prospect of a liberal majority on the Supreme Court, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet encourages the Left to abandon what he somehow imagines to have been an…...
The Supreme Court's emergency docket is roaring back. After a lull in activity, requests for quick action on redistricting, abortion and Big Tech have landed on the justices' desks. It's dominating the agenda as decision season fast approaches for the Supreme Court's normal docket, a time the justices typically spend working on drafting those opinions. Louisiana's congressional map Last week's blockbuster Supreme Court decision abating a central Voting Rights Act provision...
Lawmakers to convene for special session to redraw state supreme court districts at building with racist history When Mississippi lawmakers met in 1861 and voted to secede from the union in an effort to continue enslaving people, they did so in what is now known as the Old Capitol Museum. From 1839 to 1903, lawmakers met at a building that witnessed some of the state's most racist history. And now, on 20 May, when members of Mississippi's house convene for a special session to redraw state...
Fallout from the Supreme Court's blow to minority representation will not be limited to the South.
A federal court has thrust the issue of abortion back into the national spotlight, just months before the midterm elections. Voter anger about abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 helped propel Democrats to a series of midterm victories that year. But when then-Vice President Kamala Harris lost the White...
A landmark Supreme Court case laid the groundwork for the tremendous amounts spent on today's elections.
Louisiana v. Callais limits race-based redistricting, but Black voters as swing voters could gain more influence in geographically compact districts.
South Carolina joins Southern redistricting push after US Supreme Court ruling on minority districts
ABC News - 9 hours 14 min agoRepublicans are rapidly pursuing redistricting efforts across the South following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affects majority-Black congressional districts...
Panicking LA City Hall bosses are scrambling to figure out the fallout from a bombshell ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States that could upend how political power is drawn in America's second largest city.
A maker of the abortion pill mifepristone asked the Supreme Court to block a court ruling that cut off mail-order access to the drug. The ruling was the result of a legal challenge from the state of Louisiana, which had sued the Food and Drug Administration over a 2023 policy change that removed the requirement for patients to see a health care provider in person to get mifepristone.
Supreme Court ruling sparks protests over Voting Rights Act and gerrymandering controversy.
NPR - 20 hours 5 min agoAlabama lawmakers are scrambling to change the state's congressional maps. The governor called a special session after the Supreme Court tossed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
Representative Joseph Morelle, a former New York State legislator, returned to Albany on Tuesday to push Democrats to pass a redistricting measure.
Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Thomas and Gorsuch, calls Justice Jackson's dissent in Louisiana v. Callais baseless and lacking restraint.
Daily Signal - 21 hours 33 min agoOne day after a defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court, New Jersey’s attorney general appeared to flagrantly disregard the ruling that her office's demand for donor information harmed a pregnancy center's First Amendment rights. Attorney General Jennifer Davenport filed a motion in state court, asking the court to lift its temporary stay on the subpoena...
Slate - 22 hours 1 min agoNew elections! New party lines! New computer programs!...
Elie Mystal The court has fast-tracked its decision demolishing the VRA, helping southern states redraw their maps before the midterms. The post The Supreme Court Just Made Its Voting Rights Ruling Even Worse appeared first on The Nation .
A landmark ruling set back the right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity to keep Republicans in power In the late 19th century, after Reconstruction, US federal protections for Black voters began to erode. Southern states sought to reshape their electoral systems through poll taxes, literacy tests and districting to consolidate political control for white supremacist politicians. Over decades this led to Jim Crow laws, under which most Black Americans in the south were effectively...
The data provided the first snapshot of trade since a ruling by the Supreme Court forced major changes to the Trump administration's tariffs.
The first wave of tariff refunds is expected to be issued electronically starting on May 12, just under three months after the Supreme Court invalidated the cornerstone of President Trump's trade agenda. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shared the updated timeline in a message to shippers on Monday with information on how to monitor...
Slate - 23 hours 5 min agoChaos is the new normal.
Nation Review - 23 hours 5 min agoTo shape policy at the national level, you have to win at the state level. If your cause keeps losing even in red states, you’ve got to work harder there.
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