The DOJ said in its court filing that the program was “racially discriminatory, calling it unconstitutional because it doles out different benefits based on race. “There are sound ways for a city to remedy past discrimination or direct resources to its most vulnerable citizens and neighborhoods. Simply handing out money based on race, however, is […]
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Source: SAMUEL CORUM / Getty Okay, so this was supposed to be a story about the Georgia state legislature launching a mid-decade redistricting effort with the express purpose of diminishing Black voting power, but halfway through writing it, the legislature announced it would not pursue redistricting during the special session. Don’t you just love […]
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Source: Jon Cherry / Getty President Donald Trump has a drastically low approval rating and is losing support across his key bases nationally. Despite leading his party to what, on paper, looks like a loss in the midterms, Tuesday’s primaries confirmed that Trump still holds a firm grip on the Republican Party in deep Red […]
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Source: SAMUEL CORUM / Getty Another day, another southern state announcing its desire to bring back the days of Jim Crow. On Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp called a special legislative session to draw a new congressional map. CBS News reports that Kemp signaled he would trigger a redistricting effort shortly after the Supreme Court […]
Read MoreSource: Megan Varner / Getty Gov. Brian Kemp has signed legislation known as House Bill 369 that will make most local elections in five metro Atlanta counties nonpartisan, meaning candidates will run without party affiliation or designation, according to reports from WSB-TV, theGrio, and CBS News. But what is House Bill 369 and why are […]
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A group of Louisiana voters filed a lawsuit last week to resume the election, but have not yet succeeded at having the executive order stayed by a court. The Supreme Court, for its part, does not seem interested in delaying the inevitable. Earlier this week, the justices voted to immediately issue the court’s mandate for […]
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The GOP will still try to fund ICE through the reconciliation process, which takes much longer but only requires a simple majority in both chambers of Congress. Previously, House Republicans had criticized their counterparts in the Senate for passing the measure with a voice vote, which doesn’t record individual members’ votes, only to adopt the […]
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Source: Megan Varner / Getty A new law targeting Black women’s leadership in metro-Atlanta.awaits Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s signature. But instead of fixing a potentially dire situation concerning a ballot law deadline, Republicans couldn’t pass up the chance to give metro-Atlanta the finger. HB 369 would require the state’s five most diverse counties to hold […]
Read MoreSource: Natalie Behring / Getty Black women continue to pay the cost of Republican extremism and obsession with denying bodily autonomy, nearly seven years after the passage of Georgia’s extreme abortion ban. Beneath the sensationalized headlines about Alexia Moore, a south Georgia veteran accused of having an “illegal abortion,” lies a stark reality for Black […]
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