A federal trial on NC’s voter ID law winds down with its future at stake North Carolina’s 2018 voter ID law represents another chapter in the state’s long history of discriminatory laws meant to deter Black voters that includes poll taxes and literacy tests, a lawyer for ... 05/13/2024 - 10:40 pm | View Link
Tracking Nevada’s 2024 ballot measures: From A’s to abortion rights There are 11 potential ballot questions that may end up before Nevada voters this year or in 2026, but a key signature deadline is June 26 and some initiatives are in legal jeopardy. 05/12/2024 - 10:34 pm | View Link
Poll tax? Nevada Supreme Court weighs in The court’s ruling will determine whether supporters can continue their ongoing signature-gathering effort as a key deadline looms. 05/10/2024 - 1:59 am | View Link
“Georgia Court Will Hear Appeal of Ruling That Kept Prosecutor on Trump Case” The Georgia Court of Appeals will hear an appeal of a ruling that allowed Fani T. Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, to continue leading the prosecution of former President Donald J. 05/9/2024 - 1:41 am | View Link
Nevada Supreme Court weighs whether proposed voter ID ballot measure amounts to poll tax A lower court ruled in February that the proposal was conditional, but the case has been appealed to the high court, with lawyers arguing it contains an unfunded mandate. 05/8/2024 - 11:03 am | View Link
Something curious has happened since the Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs decision in June 2022: More people have obtained abortions, despite increasing barriers to access.
That’s one of the central findings of a new report released Tuesday, which found that there were nearly 86,000 average abortions per month in 2023, compared to about 82,000 a month in 2022.
The question of how many people have died in Gaza since Israel began a bombing and ground campaign in response to Hamas’s deadly Oct. 7 attack has taken on renewed urgency as President Biden tries to forestall a full assault by Israel against Hamas’ leadership and remaining battalions into the densely-populated city of Rafah.
On Thursday, purportedly on the advice of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott formally pardoned Daniel Perry for his 2020 murder of Garrett Foster at a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin. I say “purportedly” because Abbott never waited for the board before passing judgment in the case; he announced a little over a year ago that he was “working as swiftly as the law allows” to get Perry out of prison.
“Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney,” Abbott explained on X at the time.
Denver International Airport officials confirmed what some hawk-eyed H2O fans had already noticed — the filter status indicators on more than 100 water bottle-filling stations across DIA don’t work.
That’s because DIA shut off the indicators about a year ago. The airport’s senior maintenance official said this week that the decision was made because the indicators were throwing off maintenance cycles.
The filter indicator light is disabled on a water bottle filling station on Denver International Airport’s Concourse C on May 9, 2024, in Denver.