Month: October 2022

Axios: “A second woman has alleged that Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee in Georgia’s Senate race, paid for her abortion. The big picture: Walker has taken a strong anti-abortion stance in the hotly contested Senate race during this year’s midterm election cycle, and has denied both allegations against him. Driving the news: The woman, who was identified by attorney Gloria Allred…

Political Wire: “Hours after disgraced North Carolina Sheriff Jody Greene (R) announced his long-awaited resignation, the top cop who was caught on tape calling his Black colleagues ‘bastards’ made it clear his exit was just a strategy to ensure that he could continue his reelection campaign,” Vice News reports. “By resigning before the county’s attempt…

Axios: “The end of affirmative action, at least on college campuses, is almost certainly near. The big picture: The Supreme Court said in 2003 that colleges and universities could consider race as a factor when deciding which students to admit, for the sake of building a diverse student body. But now, the much more conservative court appears…

NY Times: “Far from an outlier, Texas, with its new law, joined what has been an expanding effort to remove nearly all restrictions on carrying handguns. When Alabama’s “permitless carry” law goes into effect in January, half of the states in the nation, from Maine to Arizona, will not require a license to carry a handgun….

HuffPo: “Former President Donald Trump is set to help a fellow Republican in Florida campaigning for reelection in next month’s election. That Republican, however, may not be Gov. Ron DeSantis. Trump declined to send him an invite to a rally set for two days before Election Day in Miami. Trump on Wednesday announced a rally Nov. 6 to support Sen. Marco…

HuffPo: “Mark Lee Dickson has made it his life’s work to criminalize abortion in the state of Texas. A pastor and the head of Right to Life of East Texas — as well as a self-identified “36-year-old virgin” — Dickson traveled to 400 Texas cities in 2019, encouraging towns to declare themselves “sanctuary cities for the unborn”…

Miami Herald: “The Republican Party canvasser who was brutally beaten in Hialeah on Sunday did not say the attack was politically motivated when police officers first interviewed him that evening, according to a police spokesman. An initial incident report said nothing about politics. But on Monday morning, after talking to the victim’s father, Sen. Marco…

Politico: “Garza, a former ACLU attorney and a Democrat who grew up in the Valley, is running for Texas attorney general against Republican incumbent Ken Paxton, a powerful political figure known for his intense allyship with Donald Trump. No Democrat has won the state attorney general race since 1994. But the mood that August night…

Politico: “The voting rights organization founded by Stacey Abrams spent more than $25 million over two years on legal fees, mostly on a single case, with the largest amount going to the self-described boutique law firm of the candidate’s campaign chairwoman. Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, Abrams’ close friend who chaired her gubernatorial campaign both in 2018 and…

Jezebel: “I immediately smelled a rat, especially considering that Hialeah, Florida—where the incident took place—is a Republican stronghold. As the day goes on, it’s become increasingly clear that the story didn’t happen the way Rubio said it did. First, the victim in question has been identified as Christopher Monzon, a white supremacist nicknamed the “Cuban…