11 Alive: “President Joe Biden is expected to visit former President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn when he travels to Georgia on Thursday. The White House said the visit will be in Plains, Georgia. Last week, the White House announced the president would come to Atlanta on April 29. The Democratic National Committee said they would be…

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “President Joe Biden is returning to Georgia on Thursday to celebrate his first 100 days in office, marking the moment in a state where Democratic victories allowed him to pursue a far more ambitious legislative agenda. The president will headline a drive-in rally in metro Atlanta to highlight his administration’s policies since he…

The Hill: “The U.S. Census Bureau will release the first results of its decennial survey on Monday after a decade of explosive growth in Sun Belt states that will shift power in the House of Representatives. Acting Census Bureau Director Ron Jarmin will announce state population counts used to apportion House seats on Monday afternoon,…

ABC13 News: “Duke University School of Law Professor Darrell Miller said the ordinance could be a pre-cursor to the introduction of national legislation. Buncombe County is now the seventh community in North Carolina to enact such an ordinance. “This is an example of what we might think of as blue localities in red states,” said Professor Miller….

Texas Monthly: “Every month for the past decade, Scott Nicol, a 51-year-old artist and activist, has set out from his home in McAllen to roam the Rio Grande Valley in search of ladders used to scale the border wall in South Texas. On a cool and overcast day in early April, Nicol has centered his…

NOLA.com: “Troy Carter fulfilled a long-held ambition Saturday as voters in the 2nd Congressional District elected him to the U.S. House of Representatives, triumphing over Karen Carter Peterson after a bruising campaign between two Democratic state senators from New Orleans who agreed on issues more often than not. Carter won the race with 55% of…

NPR: “Two Louisiana state senators will go head-to-head in a runoff election Saturday that will determine who will succeed a White House adviser in the U.S. House. State Sens. Karen Carter Peterson and Troy Carter, both Democrats, will compete for the 2nd Congressional District seat left vacant by Cedric Richmond, whom President Biden tapped to serve…

AL.com: “The Alabama Senate [Tuesday] passed bill to prohibit racial profiling that would require police to keep records of traffic stops intended to show whether profiling is happening. The bill is by Sen. Rodger Smitherman, a Democrat from Birmingham, who has sponsored bills to prohibit racial profiling for more than a decade. Under his legislation, city, county,…

CNN: “Former President Donald Trump’s backing of football great Herschel Walker to run for the Georgia Senate seat has been enough to effectively freeze the GOP field in place — even though some Republicans privately worry the political neophyte might fizzle against Sen. Raphael Warnock in a high-stakes general election. Warnock, who is running for a full six-year…

Gambit: “Four years ago I recalled in this space Gov. Earl K. Long’s masterful put-down of then-state Attorney General Jack Gremillion — “If you want to hide something from him, put it in a law book.” I jokingly speculated that the same might be said of current Louisiana AG Jeff Landry. Now, after watching Landry lose yet…