THE WASHINGTON POST
N.C. Supreme Court reverses redistricting ruling in a win for Republicans
A new majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday gave Republican lawmakers free rein to draw state legislative and congressional maps as they see fit, reversing a decision issued in December, when liberals controlled the court.
Also Friday, Republicans on the court set the stage to reinstate a voter identification law that had been blocked in December by Democratic justices. [more]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/28/north-carolina-courts-redistricting-voter-id/
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THE WASHINGTON POST
This is what it took for Arizona Republicans to expel an election denier
State Rep. Liz Harris’s ouster is a rare case of the
GOP policing its own when it comes to election-related
misinformation. But there’s more to the story.
PHOENIX — For 40 minutes, the witness before a joint committee of the Arizona legislature unfurled her theory: A Mexican drug cartel was secretly paying off state and local government officials as part of an election-fraud scheme. Everyone from the
governor on down was implicated. Even senior-ranking Republicans. [more]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/28/arizona-republicans-expel-liz-harris/
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THE WASHINGTON POST
Black voting rights under threat in GOP supermajority states, lawmakers say
Black politicians and activists in the South say the
Tennessee expulsions are just the tip of the iceberg
in a region where White Republicans dominate state
politics.
State Rep. Yvonne Hayes Hinson was standing in front of the Florida House of Representatives, recounting being spat on for sitting at Whites-only lunch counters during the civil rights movement. The 75-year-old was trying to impress on her Republican
colleagues how hard she and others had fought for voting rights and how a plan to eliminate a congressional seat held by a Black Democrat would again seriously diminish the political power of Black Floridians. [MORE]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/28/southern-republicans-black-democrats-tennessee/
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