Month: March 2021

Forbes: “The New Georgia Project—which was founded by activist and 2018 gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams—along with the Black Voters Matter Fund and Rise, Inc. filed a lawsuit against state election officials Thursday evening in U.S. District Court in Atlanta. The suit seeks injunctive action to block new election restrictions outlined in Senate Bill 202—the “Voter Suppression Bill,”…

NewsOne: “Georgia-based corporations tried to play both sides in a recent battle over a new law that enacts additional barriers to ballot access. Several of the corporations have dodged direct questions concerning the wave of voter suppression laws, often hiding behind the chamber of commerce.  But a statement released by Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian, praising SB 202, raised alarms. LaTosha…

Richmond Times-Dispatch: “Four centuries of capital punishment in Virginia ended Wednesday outside the Greensville Correctional Center, the site of more than 100 of the state’s most recent executions. Gov. Ralph Northam signed legislation abolishing the death penalty under a tent opposite the entrance to the sprawling prison. L Unit, home of the execution chamber where…

Washington Examiner: “Asked by the podcast host if Tillis likely would have lost if Cunningham’s affair hadn’t been exposed, Bolger said, “Oh, I think so. I’m not taking anything away from Sen. Tillis or the campaign we run,” Bolger told McCrary, a Democratic pollster and partner at ALG Research. But the Tillis campaign focused on the affair…

Tennessean: “A resolution designating the Bible as the state book cleared a House committee Tuesday morning despite constitutional concerns from several lawmakers. HJR150, carried by Rep. Jerry Sexton, R-Bean Station, would include the Bible in the Tennessee Blue Book next to a list of other state symbols. This is his third attempt to designate the Bible as…

WaPo: “President Biden on Friday criticized a Georgia law imposing restrictions on voting and urged Congress to act on sweeping voting rights legislation. “This is Jim Crow in the 21st Century. It must end. We have a moral and constitutional obligation to act,” the president said in a statement. The newly signed law, among other…

Boston Globe: “The 91st MLB All-Star Game is scheduled to be played in Atlanta this July. But on Thursday, in the wake of voting-restriction legislation signed into law by the Georgia governor, the executive director of the MLB Players Association said the players are ready to discuss moving their annual midsummer exhibition out of Georgia….

GA Public Broadcasting: “Changes to absentee voting Mail-in absentee voting will look the most different for voters, especially after 1.3 million people used that method in the November general election. Voters over 65, with a disability, in the military or who live overseas will still be able to apply once for a ballot and automatically receive…

Texas Observer: “Nearly 14 years after her death, Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor Johnson’s legacy, to most who know anything about her at all, has been boiled down to wildflowers alongside Texas highways. In Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight, Julia Sweig makes the convincing case that Johnson’s role in history is far more complex,…

WaPo: “We looked at data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection to see whether there’s a “crisis” — or even a “surge,” as many news outlets have characterized it. We analyzed monthly CBP data from 2012 to now and found no crisis or surge that can be attributed to Biden administration policies. Rather, the current increase in apprehensions…