Month: September 2023

North State Journal: “Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp last week offered his strongest denunciation to date of efforts by his fellow Republicans to go after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, dismissing the moves as “political theater that only inflames the emotions of the moment.”  Some Republicans in Washington and Georgia have been attacking Fulton County…

NY Times: “Mark A. Gonzalez, a progressive district attorney in Nueces County, Texas, took an unusual tack when he came under fire from conservatives who didn’t like how he was doing his job. He resigned — to run for the United States Senate. Mr. Gonzalez announced Tuesday that he would join a large field of…

Lexington Herald-Leader: “We are Kentuckians who believe that everyone in our Commonwealth should be treated with dignity and respect. We reject oppressive policies like Senate Bill 150. Progressive Kentuckians have long been on defense, especially as harmful bills like SB 150 moved through the legislature. That’s why building a unified progressive movement, across causes and…

WaPo: “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R)’s impeachment trial in the state Senate got underway Tuesday morning in Austin. The trial, which comes after the Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives voted to impeach Paxton, mirrors national Republican infighting, with traditional conservatives pitted against allies of former president Donald Trump. Paxton, 60, has been suspended without pay since May, when Texas…

WaPo: “A panel of three federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest version of its congressional map Tuesday, saying the state’s Republican-led legislature did not follow a court order backed by the U.S. Supreme Court to comply with the Voting Rights Act when it last redrew districts in July. The ruling — which Alabama is planning to…

WaPo: “An Orlando abortion clinic facing $193,000 in state fines has raised more than $200,000 in a crowdfunding effort that will keep one of the city’s last clinics open. Florida health regulators announced last month that the Center of Orlando for Women repeatedly violated a law that requires women to wait 24 hours before having an abortion…

NY Times: “But seven neurologists, relying on what they described as unusually revealing video of Mr. McConnell freezing up in public twice recently, said in interviews Thursday and Friday that the episodes captured in real time likely pointed to more serious medical problems afflicting the longtime Republican leader. Some of the neurologists, while cautioning that…

Political Wire: “A judge in Florida ruled in favor of civil rights groups on Saturday, throwing out a congressional district map that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis had backed and deeming it unconstitutional,” The Messenger reports. “The ruling, which is likely to be appealed, delivered another redistricting win for Democrats in the Southeast after a series of cases…

Political Wire: “President Biden directed the Democratic National Committee this week to pour $1.2 million into Virginia legislative races to counter record-smashing fundraising by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), whose prospects as a potential last-minute presidential candidate could rise or fall with the outcome on Nov. 7,” the Washington Post reports. “The money will bring the DNC’s contributions…

Semafor: “The U.S. held its first auction for leases to build offshore wind farms in the Gulf of Mexico, and all it heard was crickets. The Interior Department pitched three new lease areas on Tuesday, two off the Texas coast and one off Louisiana, following a dozen increasingly competitive offshore wind auctions last year. Despite…