Poli Alert Political & Civics

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Wednesday signed legislation that sets aside $577 million for Maryland’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The HBCU legislation becomes law after more than 15 years of court battles, protests, and political fighting. Alumni and boosters of the universities — Bowie State, Coppin State, Morgan State and the …

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has signed historic legislation abolishing the death penalty in Virginia. Northam scheduled a tour Wednesday of the death chamber at the Greensville Correction Center and signed the landmark legislation outside the facility. This makes Virginia the 23rd state and the first in the South to end …

Senator Chuck Schumer announced today that he will recommend three exceptional attorneys to serve as the United States Attorneys in the Southern, Eastern and Western District offices of New York. Schumer will forward the names of Damian Williams for the Southern District, Breon Peace for the Eastern District, and Trini …

Texas civil rights attorney, Lee Merritt, announced his desire to be Texas’s new Attorney General in a video uploaded to Twitter over the weekend. “Texas deserves an attorney general that will fight for the constitutional rights of all citizens,” Merritt tweeted. The attorney, who has represented families of Black people …

The Affordable Care Act special enrollment period will be extended for three months to August 15 the Biden Administration announced Tuesday. “As a result of the American Rescue Plan, additional savings will be available for consumers through HealthCare.gov starting April 1,” a statement from the U.S. Department of Health and …

On Tuesday, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy shared the U.S. Postal Service 10-year reorganization plan. DeJoy says the plan includes longer delivery times for some first-class mail, shorter hours for some post offices, and higher postal rates. “This is a very positive vision,” DeJoy said. According to NPR, a small percentage …

Former President Donald Trump is said to be serious about launching a new social media platform to compete with the social networks that banned him earlier this year. “I’m doing things having to do with putting our own platform out there that you’ll be hearing about soon,” Trump told Fox News …

The Biden adminstration announced sanctions against two Chinese government officials and two military leaders in Myanmar. The Department of the Treasury said that Wang Junzheng and Chen Mingguo are “connected to serious human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, which reportedly includes arbitrary detention and severe physical abuse, among …

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday urged Americans to avoid travel while warning of a possible “avoidable surge” in the coronavirus. “Much of the travel, we know, is related to people who are going on spring break,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said at a press …

President Joe Biden will hold his first fundraiser since being elected to support Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. Lance Bottoms endorsed Biden early in his candidacy. She campaigned for him in Iowa and spoke at the Democratic National Convention. The Mayor was rumored early on to be a potential vice …

Sidney Powell’s attorneys filed a motion to dismiss Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.3 Billion defamation lawsuit. Powell is arguing that the conspiracy theories should not have been taken seriously. “Even [assuming] that each of the statements alleged in the Complaint could be proved true or false, no reasonable person would conclude …

Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Lina Khan for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. Khan is an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches and writes about antitrust law, infrastructure industries law, and the antimonopoly tradition. At 32, Khan would be the …

The Supreme Court has decided to review the Boston Marathon bomber’s death penalty case. A lower court opinion has just been brought back to the forefront, suggesting the death penalty as a sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev is one of the brothers convicted in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The …

Former President Donald Trump is endorsing Rep. Jody Hice for Georgia’s Secretary of State. “Jody has been a steadfast fighter for conservative Georgia values and is a staunch ally of the America First agenda,” Trump said. “Unlike the current Georgia Secretary of State, Jody leads out front with integrity,” Trump said. ” I have 100 percent confidence …

Former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, has been partially closed after staff members tested positive for the coronavirus. That’s according to several people, including one familiar with club operations, who said Mar-a-Lago had “partially closed” a section of the club and quarantined some of its workers …