Month: May 2022

The TX Tribune: “At a time when Texas is poised to outlaw the vast majority of abortions if the nation’s highest court overturns constitutional protections for the procedure, a recent University of Texas at Austin poll shows most Texan voters think access to abortion should be allowed in some form. Texas would make performing most abortions a…

WUNC: “A photography exhibit that was canceled by UNC Chapel Hill is now open at the Chapel Hill Public Library. The exhibit, “Tarred Healing,” was supposed to open in February at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. Durham-based photographer Cornell Watson explained his photos reflect the Black community in Chapel Hill….

The North State Journal: “U.S. Rep. Ted Budd continued to stretch out his lead in the upcoming May 17 Republican U.S. Senate primary, according to two new polls released in the past week. In a poll released Monday afternoon by the Club for Growth, Budd earned 43% of the vote among likely Republican primary voters,…

AR Times: “Former legislator Denny Altes, a former Fort Smith Republican legislator who also served for a time as one of Governor Hutchison’s most undistinguished appointees as state drug director, has been charged with a felony. The state court system doesn’t currently carry details beyond the notice above, but Talk Business, quoting sources, said it relates to…

ABC News: “An administrative law judge in Georgia on Friday ruled that GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene can stay on the ballot for the state’s 14th Congressional District following a challenge to her reelection candidacy. A group of Georgia voters had argued that Greene was not eligible to run for reelection under the “disqualification clause”…

Austin American-Statesman: “Gov. Greg Abbott wants Texas to challenge a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that requires states to offer free public education to all children, including those lacking legal immigration status. That ruling, known as Plyler v. Doe, struck down a Texas law that had denied state funding to educate children who had not been “legally admitted” to the United…

Politico: “The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO. The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992…

NBC DFW: “The Mexican government said it intends to shift long-range plans to build a trade railway connection worth billions of dollars from Texas to New Mexico in the wake of Gov. Greg Abbott’s stepped-up border inspections last month, which were widely criticized as being financially damaging and may now leave a lasting impact on…

WaPo: “Florida has forever been a magnet for social misfits and fugitives, drug lords and con men, colorful outliers and outright liars. As befits the home of Donald Trump, Florida has also become a MAGA hot spot, drawing conservative provocateurs, media personalities, politicians and rabble rousers. Among the rich and notorious ideologues who live full…

NY Times: “And she is playing with a strong hand in this investigation. The evidentiary record of Mr. Trump’s postelection efforts in Georgia is compelling. It is highlighted by a recording of Mr. Trump’s Jan. 2, 2021, call with Mr. Raffensperger, in which Mr. Trump exhorted Mr. Raffensperger to “find” those votes. The tape also contains threats against…