By Cherranda Smith
Apr 26, 2021
As hundreds of restrictive voting bills are introduced into state legislatures around the country, Black members of Congress are calling for voting rights to be prioritized.
Last month, the House passed H.R.1, a large election reform measure, but it has yet to gain unified support among Democrats in the Senate. Now, a group of Black Democrats are working to get a voting rights bill, named after the late civil rights icon Rep.
John Lewis, passed ahead of the midterm election season.
“I certainly think our focus ought to be on [the Lewis bill] and voting rights,” Rep.
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Kevin McCarthy, Four Months After Jan. 6, Still on Defensive Over Trump
But Mr. McCarthy, the House Republican leader who could become speaker after 2022, says he needs to work with Donald Trump, who “goes up and down with his anger.’’
Representative Kevin McCarthy’s main preoccupation has been doing what it takes for his party to win back the House.Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, was in an uncharacteristically dark place.
It was after the Capitol siege of Jan. 6, and he was getting pounded from all sides. He was being accused, accurately, of promoting President Donald J. Trump’s stolen-election lies. But Mr. Trump was still enraged at him for not doing more, and his supporters had just ransacked Mr. McCarthy’s office.
NEW DELHI: Social micro-blogging platform Twitter is understood to have removed over four dozen tweets allegedly criticising the central government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic on instructions from the IT ministry. The tweets are now inaccessible to the users of the platform.
According to Medianama, those whose posts were removed include Revanth Reddy, a Congress MP; Moloy Ghatak, a Bengal minister; actor Vineet Kumar Singh; and filmmakers, Vinod Kapri and Avinash Das.
Officials at the IT ministry did not respond to calls on the matter. When contacted, a spokesperson for Twitter said: “When we receive a valid legal request, we review it under both the Twitter Rules and local law. If the content violates Twitter’s Rules, it will be removed from the service. If it is determined to be illegal in a particular jurisdiction, but not in violation of the Twitter Rules, we may withhold access to the content in India only. In all cases, we notify the account holder directly so