Month: November 2024

NY Times: “Four years ago, thousands of demonstrators would squeeze into Jefferson Square Park in downtown Louisville, Ky., to remember Breonna Taylor. They marched, they chanted, they gathered for vigils. Police officers broke up crowds with flash bang grenades. It was the epicenter for racial justice protests in the city. On Saturday, less than 24…

Political Wire: “The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal over Louisiana’s more Democratic-friendly congressional districts, though the case won’t impact this year’s election,” CNN reports. “The fight over how to divvy up the state into six congressional districts has been playing out for years, with repeated stops at the Supreme Court. The current map,…

Atlanta’s northern suburbs are likely to decide who wins Georgia“Like Green, many were White, but the group also included a large number of Asian Americans, Indian Americans and Black people, all dancing in unison. The crowd was reflective of the rapidly diversifying population of Forsyth and other North Atlanta suburbs in recent years that has made the region…

The Biggest Question in North Carolina: Can Democrats Win?“The race for North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes remains incredibly close. The New York Times polling average shows Mr. Trump up by one point, well within the margin of error. “It’s been frustrating to not know for months: Who are we as a state?” said Jerry Sholar, a…

NY Times: “The Republicans of Forsyth County, Ga., deep in Trump country, have a peculiar problem: More and more of their white neighbors are voting for Democrats. Forsyth County, about 40 miles north of Atlanta, was until the 1990s a whites-only suburb. Democrats don’t hold a single elected office. But these days, some white residents…

NY Times: “Florida’s days as a presidential battleground are bygone. No longer do candidates drop in every few days during campaign season. No longer do voters get bombarded with their ads. Nor is there more than a whisper of doubt that the state will vote Republican. Presidential elections in Florida used to be decided by…

Alternet: “One of Gov. Sarah Sanders’ first decisions after her election in 2022 was to undo part of the state government reorganization put in place by her predecessor, Asa Hutchinson. Instead of appointing both a cabinet secretary for the Department of Public Safety and a director of the Arkansas State Police, Sanders gave both jobs to the…

Political Wire: “A Texas woman died after the hospital said it would be a “crime” to intervene in her miscarriage, ProPublica reports. “Though proponents insist that the laws protect both the life of the fetus and the person carrying it, in practice, doctors have hesitated to provide care under threat of prosecution, prison time and professional ruin.””

Political Wire: “More than half a million people in Georgia who didn’t vote in the presidential election four years ago cast a ballot this month during early voting,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. These voters “include new residents, Georgians who weren’t old enough to vote four years ago, as well as residents who have moved back after a time…

AP: “The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday left in place Virginia’s purge of voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting. One Virginian, whose registration was canceled despite living in the state her entire life, called the purge “a very bad October surprise.” The high court, over…