Political Wire: “The Tennessee Supreme Court has suspended the law license of a former state Sen. Brian Kelsey (R) who pleaded guilty last month to violating federal campaign finance laws, the AP reports. Kelsey had previously pleaded not guilty to the campaign finance charges in the case related to his failed 2016 congressional campaign, calling them a…

Old North State Politics: “With North Carolina’s counties and state board of elections finalizing the results of the 2022 mid-term elections, and the subsequent completion of voter history data on the 3.7 million North Carolinians who cast a ballot this past November, we can now get an official portrait of the state’s electorate and who…

Politico: “Sen. Raphael Warnock has defeated GOP challenger Herschel Walker in Georgia’s Senate runoff, giving Democrats a 51-seat majority next year and capping off an extraordinary defense of the chamber that saw every endangered incumbent win reelection. Warnock, who won a special election runoff in early 2021 and has now earned a full six-year term,finished…

The Post and Courier: “Before this week, South Carolina Democrats didn’t have much to celebrate. They had failed, once again, to win any statewide race in November. They had also lost five state House seats represented by Black Democrats. And they didn’t even come close to winning back a competitive congressional seat on the coast….

Politico: “Conservative attorneys hope to advance a legal idea in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday that would give state legislatures more control over elections — which could have a dramatic impact on everything from who gets elected to Congress to what rules voters must follow to cast their ballots in 2024. But it…

AP: “A former Miami congressman who signed a $50 million consulting contract with Venezuela’s socialist government was arrested Monday on charges of money laundering and representing a foreign government without registering. David Rivera, a Republican who has been marred by scandals stretching back to his days in Congress from 2011 to 2013, was arrested in Atlanta, according…

Newsweek: “The mother of a fallen Capitol police officer refused to shake the hands of two Republican lawmakers during Tuesday’s Congressional Gold Medal ceremony honoring the officers who defended the U.S Capitol during the January 6 riot. Gladys Sicknick, the mother of Brian Sicknick, a U.S. Capitol police officer who died of a stroke following…

WRAL: “North Carolina Labor Commissioner Josh Dobson, a 41 year old serving his first term in the statewide office, won’t seek a second one, he announced Tuesday morning. Dobson said he’ll finish his current term. He made the announcement Tuesday morning, during a monthly meeting of North Carolina’s Council of State, a collection of state…

WKYT: “Governor Andy Beshear officially filed papers Monday to run for a second term as governor of Kentucky. His family and Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman joined him Monday afternoon as he filed the candidacy papers at the Secretary of State’s Office. “This race isn’t going be about anything national, and it’s not gonna be about…

WaPo: “President Biden has asked leaders of the Democratic National Committee to make South Carolina the nation’s first primary state, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada a week later, and hold subsequent weekly primaries in Georgia and Michigan, according to Democrats briefed on the plans. The tectonic decision to remake his party’s presidential nominating calendar…