US Supreme Court approves new Texas congressional maps
A lower court said the map was manipulated to eliminate majority-minority districts, an unconstitutional racial discrimination.
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5,000 Arrests? ICE Descends on Louisiana to Carry Out Raids in World's "Incarceration Capital"
A major immigration crackdown is underway in New Orleans and the surrounding areas of Louisiana, dubbed “Operation Catahoula Crunch” by the Trump administration. According to planning documents, 250 federal agents will aim to make 5,000 arrests over two months. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the operation will target “the worst of the worst,” though the number of arrests being planned suggests that authorities will conduct broad sweeps including those who have no criminal records, as has happened in other immigration crackdowns. “They’re going to target whoever they can, and as the Supreme Court has unfortunately authorized them, they’re using racial profiling as part of that approach,” says Homero López, legal director for the New Orleans-based organization Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy, or ISLA. “What they’re doing is they’re taking folks out of our community: our neighbors, our friends, our family members.”
Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage
The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections that a lower court found racially discriminatory. The 6-3 ruling is another political win for President Donald Trump and his allies, who have gotten a number of favorable rulings from the justices after being stymied by lower courts. Trump has asked Republican-led states to redraw their maps in order to preserve the narrow GOP majority in Congress when voters head to the polls in November 2026. The Texas effort could flip as many as five seats for the party. Ari Berman, voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones magazine, calls it a “catastrophic ruling” that further normalizes extreme partisan gerrymandering. “This whole exercise made a complete mockery of democracy.”
Your Private Data Is Building Trump’s Voter Purge Machine
It was National Voter Registration Day, and Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows was on her way to a small liberal arts college for a voter registration event. That’s when she learned the US Department of Justice was suing her over how she manages Maine’s voter registrant list. While the DOJ appearing as the official […]
Donald Trump’s Restitution Scheme Is Among the Greatest Heists in US History
This story was originally published by The Watch, Radley Balko’s substack publication, to which you can subscribe here. In the 15 years from 2010 through 2024, 375 people in Texas were exonerated after being imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. Of those, 97 received some form of compensation or settlement from the state. Collectively, those 97 people spent more […]
In the Shadow of an Immigrant Detention Center, a Small House Offers Refuge
This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, Latino USA, and Futuro Investigates. Read a Spanish version of this story here. Some people come to the outskirts of Lumpkin, Georgia, to see Providence Canyon State Park, known as the state’s “Little Grand Canyon,” where jagged red cliffs […]
Democratic Sen. Gallego urges oversight of H-1B visas
In a letter to the Trump administration, the Arizona senator accused big tech companies of abusing the program.
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