The North Carolina Supreme Court handed down more than two dozen rulings on Friday, including a trio dealing with high-profile political controversies. The rulings come just weeks before Republicans Richard Dietz and Trey Allen replace sitting Democratic Associate Justices Samuel Ervin IV and Robin Hudson, and thereby flip the court’s …
Read More »New Petition Pressures US House Members Not to Seat GOP Insurrectionists in 2023
A pair of progressive advocacy groups launched a petition on Friday to pressure the U.S. House of Representatives not to seat returning members who supported the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. The petition, led by Free Speech for People and MoveOn, takes aim at three Republican members of …
Read More »Why Are Pregnancy And Childbirth Killing So Many Black Women In Texas?
Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune Nakeenya Wilson was at a meeting of Texas’ maternal mortality review committee when she got the call: Her sister, who had recently had a baby, was having a stroke. Wilson raced to the hospital, leaving behind a stack of files documenting the stories of women who …
Read More »Three Men Sentenced To Prison Over Plot To Kidnap And Murder Gov. Whitmer
Jon King, Michigan Advance Three men convicted for supporting a plot to kidnap and assassinate Gov. Gretchen Whitmer have been sentenced to prison. Pete Musico, 44; his son in-law, Joe Morrison, 28; and Paul Bellar, 24, were sentenced on Thursday by a Jackson County judge after a jury convicted the …
Read More »House Dems Move to Block Trump 2024 Run
More than 40 House Democrats introduced legislation Thursday aiming to bar former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, citing the 14th Amendment clause prohibiting insurrectionists from holding federal office. “Donald Trump very clearly engaged in an insurrection on January 6, 2021 with the intention of overturning the lawful and …
Read More »Congress Clears One-Week Bill To Fund The Government, But Many Hurdles Remain
The U.S. Senate sent President Joe Biden a one-week government funding bill late Thursday, giving negotiators a few more days to wrap up talks on what is expected to be a $1.7 trillion package to keep the federal government up and running through September. The short-term bill is the second …
Read More »Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes 17 Death Sentences, Ending Death Row
Julia Shumway, Oregon Capital Chronicle For more than 10 years, Oregon governors have enforced a moratorium on executions. In one of her last acts as governor, Kate Brown went a step further, announcing Tuesday that she will commute the sentences of the 17 people on Oregon’s death row. The list …
Read More »Senate Passes Legislation To Ban TikTok From US Government Devices
The US Senate has once again unanimously voted to ban TikTok from all government-issued phones and other devices. The “No TikTok on Government Devices Act,” introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), was passed via unanimous consent late Wednesday, meaning that no member objected to the bill. The proposal would “prohibit …
Read More »White House Resumes Handing Out Free COVID-19 Rapid Test Kits
Jennifer Shutt, South Dakota Searchlight The Biden administration is once again offering Americans the opportunity to order free at-home COVID-19 rapid tests from the federal government, a program that it had shuttered amid an ongoing stalemate with Congress over additional funding to address the virus. The program will allow each …
Read More »Club Q Survivors At House Hearing Denounce Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric
Jacob Fischler, Iowa Capital Dispatch Survivors of a deadly attack at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs and other advocates told a U.S. House panel Wednesday that political rhetoric and policy fights dehumanize LGBTQ people and contribute to such violence. Democrats and Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform …
Read More »‘Chilling’: Republican State AG’s Office Sought List of Trans Texans
“Despicable.” “Disgusting.” “Egregious.” “Terrifying.” Those were some of the responses to reporting by The Washington Post on Wednesday that the office of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sought to create a list of state residents who had changed their gender on driver’s licenses and other Department of Public Safety …
Read More »House and Senate GOP At Odds Over Massive Government Spending Deal
Jennifer Shutt, Florida Phoenix Congress is trying to wrap up its remaining must-pass bills before leaving for the holidays — but a split between Senate Republican and House GOP leaders could hamstring the all-important task of funding government operations and averting a partial shutdown. Senate Republicans are working with Democrats …
Read More »10 Years After Sandy Hook Massacre, Progressives in Congress Lead Calls for Gun Control
Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams U.S. progressives marked the 10th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre by renewing calls for gun control, with one reform advocate telling families of those slain in the nation’s worst primary school shooting that “it is our national shame that we failed to take …
Read More »Here’s Why Food Prices Remain Stubbornly High Even As Inflation Cools
Casey Quinlan, Georgia Recorder Shoppers hoping for a little relief at the grocery store for their holiday meals will be disappointed by the Consumer Price Index released Tuesday. The CPI shows inflation cooling but food prices — particularly for some holiday staples — remain high. The CPI increased 0.1% in …
Read More »Georgia Secretary of State Pushes For End Of General Election Runoffs
Georgia’s Dec. 6 runoff election, which saw U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock’s victory against former University of Georgia football player Herschel Walker drew ire on both sides of the aisle. Complaints by politicians and voters included the racist history of the process, long lines at the polls and a reduced early voting …
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