Steven McLaughlin, a former New York assemblyman known for his outspoken criticism of former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with…
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Where the Pro-Choice Movement Went Wrong
An exception to this disregard for the Hyde amendment was Faye Wattleton, who in 1978 became the first Black woman to lead Planned Parenthood. She…
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G.O.P. Cements Hold on Legislatures in Battleground States
Republicans are locking in newly gerrymandered maps for the legislatures in four battleground states that are set to secure the party’s control in the statehouse…
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As Gerrymanders Get Worse, Options to Overturn Them Get Weaker
Voting-rights advocates are in a North Carolina state court in Raleigh this month, arguing in three lawsuits that Republican gerrymanders of the State Legislature and…
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Cuomo Assembly Report Contains Grounds for Impeachment, Lawmaker Says
An investigation by the New York State Assembly Judiciary Committee has found that former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s administration “materially misrepresented” the extent of deaths…
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Florida Curtails Coronavirus Mandates, Reflecting Wishes of Vaccine Skeptics
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Early this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis crisscrossed Florida promoting coronavirus vaccines, visiting retiree communities and hospitals, and celebrating people who got their…
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Florida Curtails Virus Mandates, Reflecting Wishes of Vaccine Skeptics
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Early this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis crisscrossed Florida promoting coronavirus vaccines, visiting retiree communities and hospitals, and celebrating people who got their…
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How a Cure for Gerrymandering Left U.S. Politics Ailing in New Ways
In Virginia, members of a bipartisan panel were entrusted with drawing a new map of the state’s congressional districts. But politics got in the way.…
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How Republicans Have an Edge in the Emerging 2022 Congressional Maps
WASHINGTON — A year before the polls open in the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans are already poised to flip at least five seats in the…
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Madison Saw Something in the Constitution We Should Open Our Eyes To
As James Madison explains it in Federalist No. 43, it means that “In a confederacy founded on republican principles, and composed of republican members, the…
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