WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday sent another warning shot to Republican state legislatures that have initiated private audits of voting tabulations broadly viewed…
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A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a strict new law that would ban nearly all abortions, a decision that comes as…
View More Federal Judge Blocks Ban on Nearly All Abortions in Arkansas
Worse still, they arranged the firing of Dr. Michelle Fiscus. As medical director of the vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization program at the Department of Health,…
View More Dolly Parton Tried to Get Tennessee Vaccinated. But It’s Not Enough.
One is a former State Supreme Court justice who acts with a lawyer’s caution; the other a Trumpist firebrand who began his political career in…
View More Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick Steer Texas Far to the Right
After Sherri Tenpenny, a Cleveland-area doctor, falsely suggested during a hearing last month in the Ohio House of Representatives that Covid vaccines left people “magnetized”…
View More How Republican Coronavirus Vaccine Opposition Got to This Point
HOUSTON — “Should we be getting out of here?” This is the question my husband, a Virginia native, has asked with growing frequency as he…
View More Texas Has Broken My Heart
Despite high hopes last November, Democrats remain in the minority in both Texas legislative chambers and their options are limited. If they remain out of…
View More Texas Democrats Plan to Flee State to Highlight G.O.P. Voting Restrictions
Studies consistently rate Texas near the top of the list of states that make it harder to register and vote, which explains, in part, why…
View More After All-Night Hearing, Texas Republicans Advance Voting Measure
As Texas Republicans prepare to force votes next week on far-reaching legislation that would introduce new restrictions on voting, Democrats are left facing a gnawing…
View More Texas Democrats Weigh Options for Blocking Voting Bill, Including Flight
“If the barista at Starbucks overhears you talking about your abortion, and it was performed after six weeks, that barista is authorized to sue the…
View More Citizens, Not the State, Will Enforce New Abortion Law in Texas