WaPo: “Former officer Brett Hankison had been acquitted of state charges of reckless behavior related to Taylor’s death. With a petition signed by 18,000 people, Tamika Palmer that day in 2022 asked senior Justice officials whether there was anything more they could do. The Justice Department ultimately charged Hankison, who fired his gun in the…
“Democrats Hopeful in North Carolina, Nervous in Georgia”
Political Wire: “Democrats are starting to dream that President Biden can wrench North Carolina away from Donald Trump in November,” the New York Times reports. “They’re less confident that Mr. Biden can hold on to Georgia.” “The two Southern battlegrounds are creating a tricky strategic calculus for Mr. Biden’s campaign as it grinds into higher gear and…
“Ralph Reed’s Group to Spend $62 Million for Trump”
Political Wire: “A prominent evangelical advocacy organization plans to significantly ramp up political spending in the 2024 election with one goal in mind: returning Donald Trump to the White House,” Politico reports. “Faith & Freedom, a conservative-leaning organization, intends to spend $62 million registering and turning out evangelical voters, texting and calling supporters, and door-knocking — $10…
“Three couples and their IVF hopes, jolted by Alabama’s court ruling”
WaPo: “They’d pinned their dreams of children and parenthood on IVF. It gave a cancer patient left infertile by chemo and other treatments a chance to grow her family. It renewed hope in a mother who had struggled to conceive. And it offered a lesbian couple a path to pregnancy after other attempts had failed….
“DeSantis faces pushback in Florida as voters tire of war on woke”
WaPo: “But instead of sailing through the Republican-dominated legislature, the DeSantis-backed bill died a quick legislative death, making it only as far as one subcommittee. It wasn’t the only culture war proposal from conservative lawmakers to end up in the bill graveyard during the session that ended Friday. One rejected bill would have banned the…
Man of Principle Mitch McConnell Endorses Trump Who He Said Was “Responsible” for Riot That Killed 5 People In a “Disgraceful Dereliction of Duty”
CNN: “Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday he will support Donald Trump for the presidency, a move that comes more than three years after they have last spoken and after the Kentucky Republican pointedly blamed Trump for the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. “It is abundantly clear that former President Trump has earned…
“Dueling Campaign Visits in Georgia”
Political Wire: “Donald Trump and Joe Biden “are both set to campaign in Georgia on Saturday with dueling visits that underscore the intense competition to capture one of the nation’s premier battleground states in November,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.”
“Alabama Democrats Get Rare Chance to Increase Power”
Political Wire: “When the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Alabama’s congressional map last year as an illegal dilution of Black voting power, the decision set in motion a heated redistricting battle,” the New York Times reports. “Now, voters on Tuesday will head[ed] to the polls for the first time in a newly reshaped Second Congressional District, which was…
“Appeals court blocks Fla. ‘Stop Woke Act,’ says it’s a ‘First Amendment sin’”
WaPo: “A federal appeals court upheld a ruling Monday that blocked Florida from enforcing a law, backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, that restricts how private companies teach diversity and inclusion in the workplace. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled Monday that the “Stop Woke Act” “exceeds the bounds”…
“Mercedes-Benz Workers in Alabama Back Union Drive”
Democracy Now!: “In labor news, thousands of hourly workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama, have signed union cards to join the United Auto Workers. More than half of some 6,000 employees said they support joining the union — a major victory in one of the largest Mercedes-Benz plants in the U.S. Workers are…