Democracy Now!: “Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, whose election in January helped bring the chamber under Democratic control, used his first speech on the floor of the Senate this week to assail Republican efforts to restrict voting rights. He called the raft of voter suppression bills being introduced in states across the country “Jim Crow in…

NC Policy Watch: “When the sun came up on Sunday morning, Outlaw’s body still hung outside the courthouse. Even his friends and family were frightened to cut him down. The mob had pinned a warning message to his corpse. “Beware ye guilty,” it read. “Both Black and white.” Outlaw’s crime? Daring to challenge white supremacy….

CBS News: “For psychiatrist Nerissa Price, helping the homeless on the streets of Raleigh, North Carolina, is a calling. Answering it is more urgent than ever, with the rush to vaccinate those at greatest risk.  “It just became so clear that this was going to be a population that was going to be ignored if…

WRAL: “When it comes to electing the president, North Carolina needs to go back to the future. In 2007 the state Senate passed a bill directing that the state’s electoral college votes for president be cast for the candidate who received the most votes nationwide. Essentially, it rids the nation of the antiquated electoral college without the…

Chicken Fried Politics: “Republican Julia Letlow has won a special election for Louisiana’s 5th District U.S. House seat less than three months after her husband, Luke, died of COVID-19 complications before he could be sworn into the post. In another special election Saturday in the 2nd District, Democratic state senators Troy Carter and Karen Carter-Peterson advanced to an April 24 runoff in a contest to…

AL Political Reporter: “The Supreme Court of Alabama on Friday upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that Governor Kay Ivey’s statewide mask mandate was illegally adopted. Montgomery Circuit Judge Greg Griffin in August dismissed the lawsuit, filed by Debbie Mathis, a real estate agent, and retired sheriff’s deputies Larry Lewis and Barry Munza,…

AP: “On an invitation-only call last week, Sen. Ted Cruz huddled with Republican state lawmakers to call them to battle on the issue of voting rights. Democrats are trying to expand voting rights to “illegal aliens” and “child molesters,” he claimed, and Republicans must do all they can to stop them. If they push through…

NewsChannel5: “Not even two weeks after the historical commission voted to remove the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state capitol, state senators are trying to vote to remove all members from the commission. Senator Joey Hensley, a Hohenwald Republican, sponsored the bill. It would replace all of the members of the 29 person…

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Leading Georgia lawmakers said Thursday that they plan to maintain Sunday voting and no-excuse absentee voting but pursue strict controls on other areas of voter access and ballot counting. Voting rights advocates continued to oppose the legislation during a three-hour hearing, saying it would still create obstacles by limiting drop boxes, setting earlier absentee ballot…

The Hill: “President Biden on Friday met with Stacey Abrams and Georgia lawmakers while in Atlanta to discuss voting rights in the face of legislation introduced by state GOP lawmakers in various states that would restrict access to the ballot. Biden and Vice President Harris met with Abrams, Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance…