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In one sense, the Supreme Court’s surprise ruling striking down Alabama’s 2022 congressional maps maintains the legal status quo. By 5-4, the justices rejected the state’s attempt to restrict the
Democrats could pick up several seats as a result of a Supreme Court ruling in an Alabama case upholding part of the Voting Rights Act.
This new bill would give texas' secretary of state, a republican appointed by the republican governor, the power to remove them and gain sole control over the county's future elections. what could go wrong? what "the washington post," local officials said it would be unjust to allow the secretary of state the power to take action against two black women, not those who hold equivalent positions in the state's 253 other counties. under the bill, secretary of state jane nelson could oversee elections in harris county if she found good cause to believe that a recurring pattern of problems with ele...
The new law could devastate community voter registration drives.
Voting unanimously this week to recommend that paxton be impeached. in the last two hours, we learned the historic final vote on his impeachment is set tomorrow. from nbc news -- >> joining our coverage is the founder of democracy docket, mark alice. and matt dowd is back. matt dowd, as a texan, you get to go first here. >> you know what's amazing about this is that this is all -- much of this is known for years in the course of this, which is why republicans tried to unseat him in the primary in 2022. they weren't successful, even though they laid out a bunch of the information and the republ...