Political Wire: “Former Nashville Mayor Megan Barry (D) is actively exploring a run for Congress,” the Nashville Banner reports. “According to three independent sources, Barry is considering a race against Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) for the 7th District seat. Barry, who resigned in 2018 in the wake of an affair with her security chief, has remained popular…

WaPo: “Transgender young people, their families and their medical providers on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to block a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for people younger than 18. If the high court takes the case, it would be the first opportunity the justices have had to weigh in on such restrictions, which 21…

WaPo: “The war in Gaza and a serious medical emergency suffered by the Marine Corps’ top officer have forced into the open months of simmering Republican frustration with Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s expansive hold on President Biden’s military nominees, driving several of his colleagues to publicly denounce the gambit and urge Senate leaders to take immediate…

Political Wire: “A federal judge ruled Thursday that Georgia’s district lines must be redrawn to ensure adequate representation of Black voters in Congress and the General Assembly, finding that the state’s maps illegally weakened their political power,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. “The decision could result in the election of additional Black representatives next year, with Democrats…

NY Times: “In April 2016, 11 Black schoolchildren, some as young as 8 years old, were arrested in Rutherford County, Tenn. The reason? They didn’t stop a fight between some other kids. What happened in the wake of those arrests would expose a juvenile justice system that was playing by its own rules. For over…

AP: “Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to jail an Alabama lawmaker charged with trying to obstruct an investigation into alleged kickbacks. In a motion filed this week, prosecutors said state Rep. John Rogers, a Democrat from Birmingham, violated the conditions of his bond by attempting to contact a key witness in the case. Prosecutors…

The Daily Beast: “It’s become something of a rite of passage for punk rock bands across North America to load up their vans and drive down to Florida every October to play The Fest, a long-running independent punk music festival in the quaint landlocked college town of Gainesville. Attendees and performers fly from around the world…

WaPo: “But with the United States’s closest ally now waging a war in the Middle East while critical positions remain on hold, Democrats are getting behind a plan to circumvent Tuberville’s hold. It will only work, however, if some Republicans back it — a test of whether Republicans’ private frustrations with the Republican Alabama senator’s…

WaPo: “Six years ago, groups with ties to the Confederacy had sued to stop the monument from being taken down. Torch-bearing white nationalists descended on the Virginia college town to protest its removal, and one man drove his car through a crowd of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring 35 others…. But on Saturday…

Political Wire: “Voters in a Tennessee city have firmly rejected a far-right mayoral candidate after she refused to denounce her white supremacist supporters, and the incumbent mayor decried hate and divisiveness as he celebrated his election win,” the AP reports. “Gabrielle Hanson lost the race by a wide margin Tuesday.”