Month: May 2024

KUT News: “Pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched near the Texas Capitol on Sunday after the Texas Department of Public Safety announced the grounds would be closed through at least Monday to ensure the safety of “persons and property within the complex.” In a statement, organizers from the Palestinian Youth Movement called the closure an “instance to repress…

NC Newsline: “Despite strong opposition, the North Carolina Senate voted this month to boost enrollment in privately run K-12 schools by doubling state funding for tuition subsidies called “opportunity scholarships.” More than $200 million is earmarked for kids in high-income families.  Why would Republican leaders do this now when polls show voters oppose subsidies for the rich? And when public schools…

WaPo: “Not content to prevent women from obtaining abortions in his own state, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is doing his best to prevent them from traveling to states where the procedure remains legal. Fortunately, a federal judge just ruled that the Constitution won’t let him. Unfortunately, we might have more of this kind of zealotry…

ABC9: “A new bill filed by a Tennessee congressman would revoke the visa of individuals arrested while rioting or participating in an unlawful protest at a college or university. Tennessee U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-5) filed H.R. 8322 in Congress last week, otherwise known as the Study Abroad Act. The bill calls on the Secretary of State…

WaPo: “The Supreme Court restored a congressional voting map in Louisiana on Wednesday that includes an additional majority-Black district, handing a victory to African American voters and Democrats less than six months before the November election. The order was in response to emergency appeals filed after a federal three-judge panel in the state threw out…

Political Wire: ““A third person with ties to U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar’s bribery case has pleaded guilty, according to a recently unsealed plea agreement, after the South Texas Democrat was accused of accepting nearly $600,000 in bribes from Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank,” the Texas Tribune reports.”

Political Wire: “More than a year after a jury convicted Daniel Perry of murdering a protester, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) pardoned the former U.S. Army sergeant on Thursday shortly after a parole board recommended a full pardon, the Texas Tribune reports. A Texas state district court judge sentenced Perry in May 2023 to 25 years in…

AL Political Reporter: “Both turnout and enthusiasm in the union election at the Mercedes plant in Vance have reportedly been high, which the UAW is viewing as a positive sign. Workers have been casting ballots since Monday and the election will close at 9:45am on Friday. The election is being supervised by agents from the…

AL Political Reporter: “The Alabama Republican Party claimed Monday that a volunteer for former President Donald Trump was assaulted after leaving a local Trump headquarters in an “apparent politically motivated attack.” But Athens Police Capt. Anthony Presnell released a statement Tuesday that said the incident in the local Lowe’s parking lot was simply a matter…

AL Political Reporter: “Tuberville made the pledge repeatedly during his campaign for office in 2020, promising at one point to go on radio periodically and give away a paycheck to “a veteran or a wife who has lost her husband.”  Well, here we are, years later, and Tuberville’s pledge seems to have vanished into the…