Political Wire: “Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA) — once one of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s top lieutenants — is increasingly persona non grata in the GOP for threatening to challenge other Louisiana Republicans in November,” Axios reports. “Graves is the latest McCarthy confidante to lose influence or retire after McCarthy’s ouster last October.”
Month: June 2024
“This Catholic leader shelters migrants. Texas says he runs ‘stash houses.’”
WaPo: “Who might take him in? “How could I say no?” recounted Ruben Garcia, looking at Wilson, who sat in a wheelchair before him. “There was no one else.” The influential patriarchof Annunciation House, a faith-based network of shelters based in El Paso, Garcia has taken in tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants he calls…
“Sewanee students protest for Gaza, seek continued action from school”
TN Lookout: “Among the recent protests on Tennessee college campuses by students calling for divestment from industries supporting Israel in the ongoing conflict with Gaza was a three-day occupation of a school building at the Sewanee: The University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. — the first student-led protests since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement,…
“Travis County DA José Garza files suit to undo governor’s pardon of Daniel Perry”
KUT News: “The Travis County District Attorney is challenging the governor’s pardon of Daniel Perry, who was convicted of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester in Austin in 2020. José Garza said his office filed the challenge, known as a writ of mandamus, with the state’s highest criminal court on Tuesday. It argues the pardon…
“Judge rules abortion drug can be taken at home in North Carolina”
WFAE: “A North Carolina federal judge overruled a spate of new state laws that imposed new requirements on the use of Food and Drug Administration-approved abortion pills. The ruling means that pregnant people can again take the medicine mifepristone at home and can obtain the medication from a pharmacy or by mail. New North Carolina…
“Sheila Jackson Lee Has Pancreatic Cancer”
Political Wire: “Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and said her treatment may require her to be “occasionally absent” from Capitol Hill, The Guardian reports.”
“Unfair labor practice charges are filed against Alabama postal workers unions”
AL Political Reporter: “Over the last several months, individuals have repeatedly filed unfair labor practice charges against local unions associated with the American Postal Workers Union. The APWU is the primary labor union that represents American postal clerks, with several affiliated locals based in Alabama. The national APWU represents almost 220,000 current and former postal…
“Texas’ New Plan for Responding to the Horror of Its Abortion Ban: Blame Doctors”
Slate: “Although this did not succeed in Texas, Zurawski created a blueprint for litigation in other states. It also kicked off a political nightmare for Republicans. Earlier this year, when Kate Cox, a Texas woman who learned that her fetus had trisomy 18, a condition that usually proves fatal within the first year, the state’s Supreme Court denied her…