U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-Me.) (L) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) walk to a meeting at the Capitol on July 21, 2021. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The days of broad bipartisan support for confirming the nominees for the US Supreme Court appear to be behind us. But it’s still important that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson … Read more
NEW DELHI — India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh began voting on Thursday in the first of a series of local elections that will be a key test of the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his governing party. With a population almost as big as that of Brazil, keeping power in the … Read more
Inside the emails Waldron — who has said he worked on secret projects in Afghanistan and Iraq with Flynn — sent the first email on Dec. 16, 2020, at 5:14 pm to Friess, Flynn and former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik. Waldron’s email included a draft executive order directing the Pentagon to seize … Read more
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And the litigation highlights how state Republicans have attacked voting by mail from all angles since 2020, from high-profile state legislation in Georgia, Texas and other states to court fights that, if successful, would have more far-reaching consequences than GOP legislators achieved . Since both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have Democratic governors, lawsuits were the only … Read more
Former US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a rally at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds in Florence, Arizona, on January 15, 2022.Robyn Beck / AFP via Getty Images Former President Donald Trump played a role in plans for seizing voting machines in the 2020 election. Trump asked Rudy Giuliani to call … Read more
Unite Here Local 11 members strike for voting rights. (Here unite bar 11) Last week, as Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema reiterated her opposition to filibuster reform as a way to protect voters, a dozen union activists from Unite Here Local 11 went on a hunger strike outside the state capital in Phoenix. Readers may remember … Read more
A demonstrator holds a sign at rally with Representative Jamaal Bowman outside the US Capitol to urge the Senate to pass voting rights legislation on January 19, 2022. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Subscribe to the nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up … Read more
In this edition of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses what the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act says and why Senate Democrats picked it up despite unmoved opposition. They also ask whether a new survey Showing Biden’s approval rating of just 33 percent deserves all the attention it’s gotten.
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