A federal court has delivered a sweeping rebuke to Mississippi’s system of electing state supreme court justices, ruling that the map in place for nearly four decades strips Black voters of fair representation. U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock struck down the map that has governed elections for the nine-member court since 1987, finding it violates …

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A federal judge has struck down Mississippi’s decades-old election map for state supreme court races, ruling that it weakens the political power of Black voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act. The ruling, handed down by U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock in Greenville, sided with Black residents who challenged the map, which has remained …

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The sight of uniformed troops patrolling Washington, D.C. has reignited an old American question: how much military muscle can a president flex on domestic soil? President Donald Trump, pointing to what he calls a crime crisis in the capital, summoned Washington’s National Guard earlier this month and leaned on Republican governors to send their own …

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Hampton Dellinger, once at the helm of a federal watchdog agency until Donald Trump showed him the door, has resurfaced in private practice—this time as a litigation partner with Foley Hoag in Washington, D.C. The move marks the latest turn in a turbulent chapter for Dellinger, who led the U.S. Office of Special Counsel before …

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A federal judge in Texas has cleared the way for a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of luring voters with the promise of million-dollar payouts during the 2024 campaign season. The case, brought by Arizona resident Jacqueline McAferty, claims Musk and his political action committee, America PAC, dangled a chance at a \$1 million prize to …

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In a decision that could reshape the intersection of cannabis laws and the Second Amendment, a U.S. appeals court has ruled that the federal government may have overstepped in barring medical marijuana users from owning firearms. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta found that Florida residents who legally …

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The long shadow of Jeffrey Epstein’s case surfaced again in a New York courtroom, but this time the gavel came down on the Trump administration, not the judges. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman ruled that if the public is hungry for answers about Epstein’s world of power, wealth, and exploitation, the government already has more …

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