For five years, Alabama fought to keep a congressional map that federal courts ruled was racially discriminatory. It lost in court repeatedly. It defied the orders anyway. On Monday, with voters already casting absentee ballots for a primary eight days away, the...
Chedrick Greene is a firefighter from Saginaw, Michigan. On Tuesday, he won a state Senate seat in a district that Kamala Harris carried by less than one percentage point in 2024. He won it by 19. Greene’s victory preserved the Democratic majority in the...
Last July, the Trump administration quietly rewrote the rules on who could be held in immigration detention. A memo from ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons declared that immigrants who had entered the country without authorization were ineligible for bond hearings, full...
The Justice Department has sued 29 states to obtain their voter registration files. It is using a federal immigration database to identify suspected noncitizens on those rolls. In state after state, the database keeps flagging eligible American citizens. Courts have...
The ink was barely dry on the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling when the scramble began. Within 48 hours of the 6-3 decision limiting the law’s power to protect minority voters, the Republican governors of Alabama and Tennessee had called their...
