Source: Calvin Duncan / other Louisiana simply doesn’t like Black people. That’s the only conclusion I can come to after how they’ve been moving the last several months. It’s bad enough that a group of Louisiana voters successfully convinced the Supreme Court to gut the Voting Rights Act and pave the way for a new […]
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Source: Sean Rayford / Getty The ongoing redistricting roller coaster has taken another turn after a redistricting effort backed by President Donald Trump stalled in the South Carolina Senate. The New York Times reports that the state Senate voted against ending the debate period on the new map, effectively preventing its implementation ahead of the […]
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Source: pepifoto / Getty Primary elections in Alabama and several other southern states became unnecessarily complicated after the Supreme Court effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act last month. Alabama postponed the primary election in several districts so state legislators could move forward with implementing a map previously found to be racially gerrymandered. While it looked […]
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In the few short days since its launch, the initiative has received significant blowback from the public, which is tasked with paying for the unprecedented cash stash. But mounting opposition from House and Senate Republicans forced Trump Friday to attempt to shore up legislative support. In a post on Truth Social, Trump put his foot […]
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On Monday, DHS cited a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order preventing anyone from traveling to the U.S. from areas affected by the outbreak. Zapata’s lawyers say that she was deported to Congo well before the outbreak was announced, and she’s staying in the capital, Kinshasa, which hasn’t had any cases. On Tuesday, her […]
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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: Erika Goldring / Getty Last month, we reported that Louisiana Republicans decided to postpone the state’s congressional primaries amid the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to strip away Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which resulted in the blocking of a Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana just weeks before the election. And in doing so, the Louisiana […]
Read MoreSource: Douglas Rissing / Getty Last month, the Supreme Court effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act through its ruling on Louisiana v. Callais. As a result of that ruling, several red states have already moved to implement redistricting efforts that would disenfranchise Black voters. Below are the states that are gleefully rebooting the Jim Crow […]
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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 subpoena, issued on April 17 but disclosed in court Monday, demands that the board’s custodian of records appear in federal court Tuesday with the full election staff roster, including names, home addresses, email addresses, and personal phone numbers of everyone involved in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia’s most populous county. County attorneys say […]
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“Under Louisiana law, the legislature, not the Governor or the Secretary of State, sets the state’s election schedule. Yet, Governor Jeff Landry, aided by Secretary of State Nancy Landry, has purported to unilaterally cancel Louisiana’s 2026 congressional primary election after it has already begun,” read the lawsuit from the National Council of Jewish Women and […]
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Source: Bill Clark / Getty On Wednesday, the Republican-dominated U.S. Supreme Court validated the fears of voting rights advocates spent months expressing, by using its decision in Louisiana v. Callais to strip away Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, essentially cementing the ruling that diluting Black voting power is fine, but correcting that act of systemic racism […]
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Source: Calvin Duncan / other On Thursday, the GOP-led Louisiana Senate passed a bill eliminating the office that Calvin Duncan, a man who was exonerated after being imprisoned for decades, was elected to hold last November. According to the Louisiana Illuminator, the state House of Representatives approved Senate Bill 256 by a vote of 63 […]
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Source: calvinforclerk.com / calvinforclerk.com Last Fall, Calvin Duncan gave us one of the few feel-good stories in American politics during the November elections. Duncan spent three decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit before being exonerated. After gaining his freedom, Duncan campaigned and eventually won the position of Orleans Parish clerk of criminal […]
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“I apologize and regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of them embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, are now public, and that is on me,” Attia said, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which first reported the news. “I accept that reality and the humiliation that comes with it.” Attia shared hundreds of messages with […]
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