
NBC News - 6 hours 2 min ago
Republicans in Louisiana's state Senate voted early Wednesday morning to advance a new congressional map that would give the GOP another seat in the House from the state after a recent Supreme Court decision that struck down Louisiana's previous lines...

Newser - 7 hours 31 min ago
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the murder convictions and life sentence of disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh in the shooting deaths of his wife and younger son. In a unanimous ruling, the justices said that conduct by a court clerk "egregiously attacked Murdaugh's credibility" by suggesting to jurors...

Mother Jones - 7 hours 34 min ago
Voters are heading to the polls for this year's midterms, but the electoral maps are shifting under their feet in real time. Last month, the Supreme Court narrowed a provision in the Voting Rights Act that allowed states to consider race when redrawing maps. That decision set off a mad scramble by GOP state legislatures […]...

Slate - 7 hours 49 min ago
Only 6 percent of Americans actually know who he is.

Slate - 7 hours 54 min ago
When I reached deep into his past, a clear story emerged.

The Nation - 8 hours 18 min ago
Yusef D. Jackson Their insult will arouse us and put Republican incumbents' own seats at risk. The post The Right Wants to Erase Minority Representation. We'll Register Millions to Stop Them. appeared first on The Nation .

NBC News - 8 hours 34 min ago
The Congressional Black Caucus is expected to dramatically lose membership because of the Supreme Court's redistricting ruling.

UPI - 12 hours 12 min ago
Missouri's Supreme Court approved the state's new congressional maps on Tuesday, handing a win to the Trump administration.

NBC News - 15 hours 7 min ago
Carroll didn't object to the pause as long as certain conditions were met. The ruling puts the payment on hold until the Supreme Court either reviews the case or decides to pass on it.

The Guardian - 16 hours 34 min ago
Five Republicans joined all Democrats in the state senate to reject a redistricting proposal that Trump is pushing for key US politics stories from Tuesday 12 May at a glance As Republicans scramble to redraw congressional maps after the US supreme court rendered ineffective a major section of the civil rights law that prevented racial discrimination, South Carolina state senators have so far defied pressure to do the same. On Tuesday afternoon, legislators in South Carolina rejected plans to follow...

Fox News - 16 hours 51 min ago
Sen. Mark Warner calls Virginia Supreme Court ruling blocking the new congressional map "outrageous" as Democrats regroup for midterm elections.

Fox News - 17 hours 16 min ago
Sen. John Fetterman calls out the Democratic Party's "antisemitism problem" after a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice says he is leaving the party over it.

Fox News - 18 hours 21 min ago
Alabama lawmaker Juandalynn Givan launches blistering attack on Justice Clarence Thomas, calling him an "Uncle Tom" over redistricting ruling.

Fox News - 19 hours 44 min ago
Democrats are facing Republican ridicule from a former prosecutor after reportedly filing their Virginia redistricting appeal to the wrong Supreme Court...

The Guardian - 19 hours 48 min ago
Republican leader acknowledges likely consequences' for resisting US president's demands to redraw map Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email South Carolina state senators on Tuesday defied pressure from Donald Trump to approve plans to redraw the state's congressional map after the US supreme court effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act . As Republicans scramble to redraw key districts after the US supreme court rendered ineffective a major section of the civil rights law...

The Hill - 19 hours 49 min ago
The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously rejected challenges to a Republican-friendly congressional map on Tuesday that is expected to hand the party an additional House seat in the midterms. The rulings landed just hours after the court heard oral arguments in three underlying lawsuits attempting to block the new lines. "This Court's review of the Missouri residents' appeals is limited to determining only the legality not the...

New York Magazine - 20 hours 7 min ago
The Callais decision should have been timed to be implemented next year. Apparently, the Court couldn't wait to blow up the Voting Rights Act.

Daily Signal - 20 hours 19 min ago
Despite being newly empowered by the Callais v. Louisiana Supreme Court ruling, South Carolina's Republican-controlled Senate rejected moving ahead with a redistricting plan that would have likely unseated the state's sole Democrat in Congress, Rep. Jim Clyburn. On Tuesday, the state Senate voted by a 29-17 margin to allow for the General Assembly to work on...

Huffington Post - 20 hours 21 min ago
Republicans hope the new Trump-backed map could help them win an additional seat in the midterm elections.

NBC News - 20 hours 22 min ago
The Supreme Court temporarily extends access to the abortion medication Mifepristone. Planned Parenthood President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss how Planned Parenthood and providers nationwide, are preparing if the court ultimately lifts the stay.

Buzz Feed - 20 hours 32 min ago
The president said the quiet part way out loud in a rant against his SCOTUS nominees. View Entire Post ›...

NBC News - 20 hours 44 min ago
Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, joins Meet the Press NOW as Virginia Democrats ask the U.S. Supreme Court to restore the state's recently redrawn congressional map. Rep. McClellan also reacts to the Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act as redistricting efforts intensify in Southern states.

The Independent - 20 hours 55 min ago
The Supreme Court knocked down some of Trump's sweeping tariffs, ruling that they were unlawfully imposed...

The Hill - 21 hours 4 min ago
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) has called a special primary election for August following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could allow the state to hold 2026 elections using a previously-blocked GOP-drawn congressional map. "I will continue to say: Alabama knows our state, our people and our districts best," the governor said in a statement...