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A Pulaski County man accused of firebombing police cars as a protest of the murder of a Black man at police hands in Minnesota got a shot of good news from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a three-judge panel affirmed a lower court ruling dismissing the three most serious charges against him.
A Missouri judge who jailed two children “had a little bit of black robe disease” and may have thought his power was “a little bit more than it actually was,” an appeals court judge said.
The attorney for plaintiffs challenging the state's congressional district lines, which were redrawn after the 2020 census, is appealing the case's dismissal by a three-judge panel to the U.S. Supreme Court, which recently ruled in favor of an Alabama plaintiff objecting to that state's congressional map in a case with similar elements to the Arkansas case.
When the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Alabama's congressional map had diluted the power of Black voters, it was a long-sought victory for voting-rights activists, who had grown increasingly alarmed at the court's previous decisions that have hollowed out the Voting Rights Act.
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. Supreme Court decision Thursday striking down Alabama's congressional district map is being eyed nationally by several states with similar lawsuits pending, including Arkansas, according to an attorney representing plaintiffs in one case.