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Dire analysis warns clock ticking to reverse Supreme Court ruling — or ‘the racists win’
Legal analyst Elie Mystal took a dim view on Wednesday following the Supreme Court’s move to weaken the Voting Rights Act’s ability to police racial gerrymandering — and, writing for The Nation, gave Democrats a window of just four years to prevent the ruling from causing an absolute crisis. “The VRA was the first piece
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John Roberts warned he just left ‘huge asterisk on his legacy in such a bad way’
Legal experts blasted Chief Justice John Roberts for his part in weakening the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its ability to block discrimination when district maps are drawn. “For Chief Justice John Roberts, this is a huge asterisk on his legacy in such a bad way,” journalist and lawyer Katie Phang said during an
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Gavin’s Newsom’s awful debt legacy laid bare — as California loses track of its state payroll
Gavin Newsom is set to leave California a shocking legacy of a structural budget deficits of between $20 and $30 billion – as his administration admits they have no idea how much it spends on state worker’s salaries. And the report by the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office is so damning, it may even change the
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Fetterman joins Republicans to sink Dem bid to stop Trump from waging war on Cuba
The US Senate on Tuesday defeated a Democrat-led bid to stop President Donald Trump from following through on his threat to wage war on Cuba, whose long-suffering people are reeling from the American administration’s tightened economic stranglehold. Upper chamber lawmakers voted 51-47 on a procedural motion to block further debate Sen. Tim Kaine’s (D-Va.) SJ
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Queen Camilla has ‘Sex and the City’ moment hanging out with Sarah Jessica Parker, Anna Wintour at NYC’s iconic library
In a scene that could’ve been straight out of “Sex and the City,” Queen Camilla met Carrie Bradshaw at the New York Public Library’s main branch Wednesday. During the Manhattan leg of her whirlwind East Coast tour with King Charles, Camilla, 78, was chummy with actress Sarah Jessica Parker as they toured a specially curated
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Drastic Supreme Court changes ‘unavoidable’ after revealing itself as the ‘enemy’: scholar
A prominent legal scholar warned on Wednesday that the Supreme Court just made reforming the institution an “unavoidable” part of future political administrations. Richard Hasen, a law professor at UCLA, argued in a new op-ed for Slate that the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais “will go down in history as one of
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‘Point Break’ TV Series, NASCAR Show Starring Dennis Quaid in the Works at AMC
AMC Networks has added several TV projects to its roster, including a “Point Break” series and a NASCAR show starring Dennis Quaid. Picking up 25 years after the ending of the original film, the “Point Break” series will center on a new dangerous heist crew with ties to the notorious Ex-Presidents gang, per the official
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Todd Blanche’s ‘stunning’ ‘whoppers’ exposed a new low for Trump’s DOJ: expert
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche‘s claims about cases against Trump’s enemies show how abnormally law enforcement is operating at the federal level, a legal expert warns. Harry Litman, the former U.S. Attorney General, was alarmed by Blanche’s “whoppers” at a press conference on Tuesday, where he defended the “bankrupt and tawdry” indictmentagainst former FBI
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WGA West Rejects Counterproposal From Staff Union on ‘Best, Last and Final Offer’
The Writers Guild of America West and the Writers Guild Staff Union remain at an impasse as the strike that has kept the doors of the WGA’s Fairfax headquarters closed reaches its 71st day. In a memo sent to members Wednesday and obtained by TheWrap, the WGSU said that the WGAW rejected a counterproposal to
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New Orleans sheriff indicted following investigation into monthslong prison jailbreak
A grand jury on Wednesday indicted a Louisiana sheriff whose office came under investigation after 10 inmates broke out of a New Orleans jail in an audacious escape that happened on her watch. Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson is not accused of helping the inmates pull off the brazen jailbreak through a hole behind a