Month: July 2023

WaPo: “The Republican-led legislature in Alabama approved a new congressional map on Friday that lowers the percentage of Black voters in a majority-Black district and allocates a 40 percent Black voting population to another district. A legal challenge to the map is already in the works, with Democrats saying the change is not enough to…

Politico: “President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his mother, a White House official said Saturday. Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday to create…

WaPo: “The Biden administration is threatening to sue the state of Texas for placing floating border barriers in the middle of the Rio Grande, the latest sign of escalating tensions with federal officials over Gov. Greg Abbott’s crackdown on migrants. Abbott (R) ordered the installation of a 1,000-foot chain of orange buoys in the river…

WaPo: “NASHVILLE — She sat on the edge of a picnic table outside the Comfort Inn and waited for the hearing to begin. “Hello?” Magdalena Hernández Pérez said into her phone. “Can you hear me?” On the screen flashed the face of a judge in California, the man deciding whether she would see her daughter…

WaPo: “Cayden, who has multiple medical complications after nearly drowning as an infant, is one of many children in Florida who have been separated from their families and institutionalized rather than getting state-providedat-home care. Now, a federal judge has ruled that Florida has been unlawfully segregating children with complex medical needs and putting other disabled children at…

NY Times: “Texas A&M University said on Friday that its president was resigning “immediately” following a conflict over the school’s shifting offers to a candidate who appeared set to lead its journalism school but ultimately declined the position after facing pushback over her work promoting diversity. The president, M. Katherine Banks, submitted a letter of…

WaPo: “The story of every soldier, sailor, airman and Marine is unique, just as the story of every civilian American is unique. But there is a crucial difference. When men and women enlist in the U.S. military, they voluntarily put themselves under the authority of everyone in their chain of command. They depend on that chain…

KSFR: “The Justice Department has launched a federal civil rights investigation into Georgia’s Fulton County Jail — a facility described by the sheriff’s office as “dilapidated and rapidly eroding” and where one inmate died covered in insects and filth. Investigators have received “credible allegations” that inmates of the jail, one of Georgia’s largest, are housed in…

Political Wire: “There’s a power struggle in Newbern, Alabama, and the rural town’s first Black mayor is at war with the previous administration who he says locked him out of Town Hall,” Capital B reports. “After years of racist harassment and intimidation, Patrick Braxton is fed up, and in a federal civil rights lawsuit he is accusing…

WaPo: “Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday showed what appeared to be sexually explicit images of Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, during a hearing of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, drawing immediate rebukes from Democratic members of the panel. The committee was hearing testimony from two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers involved in an investigation…