Speaker Mike Johnson insists he cannot be swayed on the subject of the government shutdown.
Three weeks after the government officially shut down and almost a month since the House took its last vote, Johnson (R-Louisiana) remains resolute in his decision to halt all House business. He has been adamant that he will not bring his lawmakers back into session until the Senate passes the House's proposal to fund the government. Time has only emboldened " and angered " him.
Meta has removed a Facebook page used to track the presence of immigration agents at the request of the Department of Justice, the company confirmed on Tuesday. read more
The Supreme Court appear poised to limit the use of the Voting Rights Act after hearing extended arguments in a case challenging Louisiana's newly drawn congressional map, which included a second majority-Black district. read more
Los Angeles County declared a state of emergency in response to the Trump administration's sweeping immigration raids, a measure typically reserved for wildfires or earthquakes.
The way Louisiana's Republican leaders put it, the pervasive racial discrimination in elections that led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is all in the past. That is why they are now urging the Supreme Court, in a case being argued on Wednesday, to bar states from using any consideration of race when drawing legislative districts, gutting a key plank of the law that was designed to ensure Black voters would have a chance of electing their preferred candidates. read more
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