
The Hill - 3 hours 31 min ago
Republican governors in two southern states are calling state lawmakers back for special sessions next week to consider new congressional maps following a landmark Supreme Court decision that narrowed the scope of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Alabama lawmakers are set to convene in Montgomery starting Monday to discuss potentially moving the state's May 19...

Fox News - 5 hours 45 min ago
A federal appeals court blocked mifepristone mail distribution nationwide, ending pandemic-era rules and likely sending the abortion pill fight to the Supreme Court.

NBC News - 7 hours 42 min ago
A federal appeals court has ruled that the abortion drug mifepristone cannot be sent to patients by mail. Telehealth prescriptions have been key to maintaining abortion access in states that outlawed or restricted the practice after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

The Hill - 7 hours 57 min ago
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville tore into the Supreme Court on Friday, accusing the justices of engaging in political favoritism and ethical misconduct. "There is no reason, none, that you should have any respect or any admiration for this pack of people who take money from anybody, don't report anything, are the only nine people...

Fox News - 8 hours 57 min ago
T.W. Shannon disagreed with former President Obama on the Supreme Court's racial redistricting ruling, saying race should not be a deciding factor in drawing districts.

NPR - 9 hours 47 min ago
It's felt like a head-spinning week on the topic of redistricting. We take stock after a major Supreme Court ruling and yet another state passing a new congressional map.

The Hill - 9 hours 52 min ago
A federal judge on Friday postponed the Trump administration's decision to end temporary legal protections for roughly 3,000 Yemeni nationals, which was set to take effect next week. U.S. District Judge Dale Ho joined a chorus of federal judges who've found the administration isn't following the proper procedures when terminating countries from the temporary protected status (TPS) program, a key prong of President Trump's...

NPR - 9 hours 54 min ago
Civil rights activist Leslie McLemore reflects on the recent Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act, and what the ruling means for Black political representation in the South.

Huffington Post - 9 hours 54 min ago
Louisiana already has suspended its May 16 congressional primary to allow time for lawmakers to approve new U.S. House districts.

NBC News - 11 hours 22 min ago
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey called legislators into a special session Friday and asked them to reschedule the state's midterm primaries, in hopes that pushing those elections back will give them time to re-install congressional maps that had been blocked in court before a landmark Supreme Court ruling changed the landscape around race and redistricting this week...

Slate - 11 hours 29 min ago
The Voting Rights Act was one of the most effective laws in American history.

Fox News - 11 hours 36 min ago
Hakeem Jeffries calls the Supreme Court illegitimate after its Voting Rights Act ruling, joining a growing movement to pack or replace the court.

Daily Signal - 11 hours 50 min ago
After the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana's proposed congressional map for relying too heavily on race, Georgia Republican leaders signaled renewed interest in redrawing the state's own congressional districts raising the prospect of expanding the GOP's delegation. "These new maps must prioritize traditional redistricting principles contiguity, compactness, respect for political subdivisions, and communities of...

ABC News - 11 hours 54 min ago
The bare-knuckle, partisan mid-decade redistricting battles that have occurred across the country over the past year and a half might become the new normal.

Fox News - 12 hours 10 min ago
Supreme Court Justice Alito pushes back on claims that terminating TPS for Haitian migrants was driven by racial bias against non-White immigrants.

The Hill - 12 hours 30 min ago
Louisiana congressional candidate Lindsay Garcia (D) on Thursday sued Gov. Jeff Landry (R) to block the suspension of the state's House primary elections after the Supreme Court ruled that the state's second majority-Black congressional district was an unconstitutional gerrymander. Garcia and voter Eugene Collins argue in their lawsuit that the elections were already in progress...

CNBC - 13 hours 53 min ago
The Supreme Court struck down Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs earlier this year, and Europe warned that its trade deal with Washington could be in jeopardy.

Slate - 14 hours 1 min ago
The problem has always been about threats to multiracial democracy and the rule of law.

Daily Signal - 14 hours 2 min ago
Editor's note: This is a lightly edited transcript of video analysis by The Daily Signal’s Senior National Security and Legal Analyst Mehek Cooke. Louisiana v. Callais is the test case, but the real fight is in the Southern House map. This is why the Supreme Court ruling matters far beyond one state, one district, and...

The Guardian - 14 hours 25 min ago
Late-night hosts discussed Trump pressuring ABC to fire Kimmel, the US's war with Iran and the US supreme court decision that guts voting rights Late-night hosts reacted to yet another call by Donald Trump for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired, more US floundering in Iran and the supreme court effectively dismantling the Voting Rights Act. Continue reading...

Twitchy - 14 hours 47 min ago
Rashida Tlaib's push for a Supreme Court ethics code sparks backlash and controversy.

Twitchy - 15 hours 37 min ago
Boil on the butt of humanity, Marc Elias, still fuming from the Supreme Court's recent smackdown on...

The Guardian - 16 hours 32 min ago
Nine states have a version of voting rights act and 11 more, including several in the south, have introduced bills to protect voters in absence of federal protections After the US supreme court essentially struck down another major provision of the Voting Rights Act, advocates and Democratic lawmakers have renewed a push in the states to enact their own versions of the landmark civil rights bill to protect voters. The supreme court ruled this week in Louisiana v Callais, effectively dismantling...

Black Enterprise - 17 hours 2 min ago
The complaint, filed in New York County Supreme Court, names Lorna Hajdini as the primary defendant.