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Georgia’s Fulton County fined $10,000 a day for not appointing Republican election board nominees

The government of Georgia’s most populous county must pay $10,000 a day until it appoints two Republican nominees to its election board under a judge’s ruling issued Wednesday. Superior Court Judge David Emerson found that the Fulton County Board of Commissioners had not complied with his earlier order to appoint the nominees to the election board. In his decision earlier this month, he said the law does not allow commissioners to veto qualified nominees proposed by political parties. In his new written […]

August 29, 2025

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is ‘mad as a bag of cats’ over SCOTUS ruling says Republican senator: ‘That’s a good thing’

U.S. Senator John Kennedy, R-La., praised the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling that blocks nationwide injunctions, potentially paving the way for President Donald Trump‘s plans to eliminate birthright citizenship and other executive policies. The 73-year-old lawmaker said he was “proud” of the 6-3 decision from the conservative majority of the court, which limited lower courts to injunctions for any said policy only in a plaintiff’s jurisdiction. “The Supreme Court has turned the universal injunctions into fish food, as well it should […]

June 28, 2025

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Republican push for proof of citizenship to vote proves a tough sell in the states

President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have made it a priority this year to require people to prove citizenship before they can register to vote. Turning that aspiration into reality has proved difficult. Trump’s executive order directing a documentary, proof-of-citizenship requirement for federal elections has been blocked by a judge, while federal legislation to accomplish it doesn’t appear to have the votes to pass in the Senate. At the same time, state-level efforts have found little success, even in places where Republicans control the legislature and governor’s office. The most […]

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Tennessee Republican Diana Harshbarger calls Rep. Al Green ‘boy,’ suggests he had ‘gun’ inside cane

A Republican congresswoman used a racial slur when addressing her Democratic colleague, Rep. Al Green of Texas, drawing outrage about the use of a term historically hurled by racists in the South when referring to African Americans. The congresswoman also implied the Black lawmaker may have smuggled a gun into the U.S. Capitol building. U.S. Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-Tenn., made the remark during an interview with FAME Ministries while criticizing Democrats for protesting President Donald Trump during his joint address […]

April 24, 2025

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Tennessee Republican lawmakers condemned by Black Caucus for posing with whips

Republican members of the Tennessee State Assembly are catching backlash after taking photographs with whips in what harkens back to the violent horrors that African Americans endured during U.S. slavery, particularly in the South. Last week, six members of the House Republican Caucus in Nashville were appointed as deputy whips–leadership roles that involve counting House votes and communicating with members to advance their party’s legislative agenda. However, the appointments were overshadowed by the lawmakers being awarded frames of literal whips. […]

April 17, 2025

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Tenn. State Rep. Justin Pearson’s confrontation with Republican over gun violence gets personal: ‘Learn to shut up!’

Emotions were high at the Tennessee State Capitol on Wednesday as State Rep. Justin J. Pearson confronted a Republican colleague during a legislative hearing on gun control. Pearson, a longtime gun reform advocate who, along with fellow Rep. Justin Jones, was infamously expelled by Republicans for protesting against gun violence on the House floor, returned to the capitol building after losing his brother to gun suicide to yet again advocate for his legislation to end permitless-carry gun laws in Tennessee. […]

March 27, 2025

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Mia Love, former Republican congresswoman, dead at 49

Mia Love, the first Republican Black woman elected to the United States Congress, is dead at 49. The former Utah U.S. representative’s family confirmed her death in a public statement. Love suffered from a years-long battle with glioblastoma brain cancer. Love died “peacefully” at her home on Sunday surrounded by family, said the statement shared on the former congresswoman’s Instagram page. ”In the midst of a celebration of her life and an avalanche of happy memories, Mia quietly slipped the […]

March 24, 2025

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Family of Mia Love—first Republican Black woman elected to Congress—provides sad update on her battle with cancer

Former U.S. Rep. Mia Love, the first Black woman elected to Congress as a Republican, is facing a sobering reality after her years-long battle with cancer. The 49-year-old former Utah congresswoman’s family issued a public update on her health after a 2022 diagnosis of glioblastoma brain cancer. Her daughter, Abigale, revealed in a social media post that Love’s cancer was “no longer responding to treatment” and that it was “progressing.” The typical survival rate for glioblastoma brain cancer is about […]

March 3, 2025

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Jeffries warns about Republican cuts to Medicaid, slams Elon Musk for making $8 million per day

House Democratic leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., railed against Republicans after their party passed a budget bill that would extend President Donald Trump‘s 2017 tax cuts law and enact new tax cuts totaling more than $4 trillion. In an effort to pay for such massive tax cuts, the Republican budget calls for huge spending cuts. On Thursday, during his weekly press conference, Jeffries warned that Medicaid will be on the chopping block as a result. “Every single member of the […]

February 28, 2025