Month: January 2022

CNBC: “”Maus,” the decades-old graphic novel about the effects of the Holocaust on a family, has become an Amazon bestseller as part of a backlash to the news this week that it was banned by a Tennessee school board. The McMinn County board says it took that step on Jan. 10 because of a handful of curse words…

Business Insider: “The Republican chairman of the National Governors Association said on Saturday that Donald Trump should not lead Republicans or the country again. “I do not believe Trump is the one to lead our party and our country again, as president,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson told Insider on the sidelines of the NGA Winter…

MS Free Press: “The first Black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court in history will be a “beneficiary” of affirmative action, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker told a radio show this afternoon. The senior Republican senator from Mississippi made clear that he has no plans to vote for Biden’s yet-to-be-announced pick. Biden has vowed…

Political Wire: ““Three women who said Roy Moore asked them for dates as teens — when he was in his early 30s — testified Thursday morning in Leigh Corfman’s defamation lawsuit against the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court,” AL.com reports. “Two of the women said they went on multiple dates with Moore in about…

Popular Information: “An acclaimed MLK-themed novel was removed from a 10th-grade English class in North Carolina. Haywood County Superintendent Dr. Bill Nolte told Popular Information that he pulled the book, Dear Martin by Nic Stone, in a matter of hours after receiving one parent complaint. Nolte said he did not read the book — or even obtain…

Chicken Fried Politics: “With candidate qualifying already underway for this year’s midterm election, a panel of federal judges have thrown a chunk of concrete into Alabama’s political pond, telling state legislators that they will have to recraft the state’s US House map to add a second majority-black district. Unless a higher court intervenes, the January…

Off the Kuff: “The lack of Latinos on the City Council undermines the legitimacy of Houston’s government, experts say, and is something that a prominent Hispanic organization is pushing to change with a lawsuit and ballot proposition. The League of United Latin American Citizens, one of the largest Hispanic civil rights organizations in the country,…

Political Wire: “A group of lawyers is working to disqualify from the ballot a right-wing House Republican who cheered on the Jan. 6 rioters unless he can prove he is not an ‘insurrectionist,’ disqualified by the Constitution from holding office, in a case with implications for other officeholders and potentially former President Donald Trump,” the New…

WaPo: “The Atlanta area prosecutor weighing whether former president Donald Trump and others committed crimes by trying to pressure Georgia election officials has been granted a special purpose grand jury to aid in her investigation. Fulton County Superior Court judges on Monday approved the request made last week by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis…

Axios: “U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, who sat at the mountaintop of Nashville Democratic politics for decades and mentored a generation of civic leaders, announced his retirement Tuesday after a bruising redistricting battle. Why it matters: The General Assembly’s plan to split Nashville among three congressional districts would have made him a re-election underdog. His retirement at the end of his current…