Tennessee Republicans pass new gerrymander following Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling

Tennessee’s Republican-controlled legislature approved a new congressional map Thursday that dismantles the state’s majority-Black district and will likely secure them an all-GOP federal delegation. The redraw comes as Republican-led Southern states scramble to enact new maps in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling that weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and…

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Hochul’s Mission Accomplished

DAYS THE BUDGET IS LATE: 37 WHEELIN’ AND DEALIN’: Gov. Kathy Hochul claimed this morning she has a budget deal. Moments later, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters that, actually, nothing is final. It’s a Planet Albany pantomime that’s played out over the last several years — a governor anxious to tout what’s generally been…

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