649 articles in the Politics category.
By Tommy Flynn
DENVER — Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters is scheduled to be released from a Colorado prison on Monday after Governor Jared Polis commuted her nine-year sentence on May 15. Polis announced the commutation as part of a larger batch of clemency actions, describing the original...
By Tommy Flynn
BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana House of Representatives on May 28 approved a new congressional redistricting map that would reduce the state’s majority-Black districts from two to one, giving Republicans a strong opportunity to expand their delegation ahead of the 2026 midterms....
By Tommy Flynn
MONTGOMERY — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court on May 27, 2026, seeking to overturn a federal three-judge panel’s ruling that blocked the state’s 2023 congressional redistricting map for the 2026 midterm elections. The...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice filed a brief with the Supreme Court on May 27, 2026, asking the justices to review a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that struck down key provisions of Arizona’s 2022 voter registration and election laws. The Trump...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols ruled Thursday, May 28, 2026, that Democratic plaintiffs failed to establish standing to block President Donald Trump's March 31, 2026, executive order aimed at strengthening election integrity through citizenship checks and mail-in...
By Tommy Flynn
HOUSTON — Veteran Democratic Congressman Al Green lost his primary election Tuesday in Texas’s 9th Congressional District, bringing an end to his two-decade career in the U.S. House. Green, 78, was defeated by a challenger who ran on a platform emphasizing criminal justice...
By Benjamin Yount | The Center Square contributor
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s governor says he is trying to give the state’s election clerks the freedom and ability to do their jobs, but not everyone is buying it. A federal judge dismissed the Trump Administration’s lawsuit that sought to get Wisconsin’s unredacted voter...
By Tommy Flynn
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Federal and state judges in Florida and Tennessee have rejected Democratic and voting-rights groups’ attempts to block newly drawn Republican congressional maps, clearing the way for their use in the 2026 midterm elections. In Florida, U.S. District Judge...
By Tommy Flynn
AUSTIN, Texas — Attorney General Ken Paxton decisively defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in Tuesday’s Texas Republican Senate primary runoff, delivering another major victory for President Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate and reinforcing Trump’s unchallenged leadership of the...
By Tommy Flynn
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Senate on Wednesday rejected a Republican-drawn congressional redistricting map, halting efforts to redraw the state’s seven congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The proposed map, which had passed the House, aimed to...
By Tommy Flynn
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A three-judge federal panel has blocked Alabama from using its 2023 Republican-drawn congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections, ruling that the map was drawn with the intent to discriminate against Black voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act. The...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — A federal lawsuit was filed in February 2026 seeking to block the U.S. Army’s plan to construct a large Triumphal Arch at Arlington National Cemetery, a high-profile project supported by the Trump administration as a grand ceremonial entrance and lasting tribute to...