Progressive Challengers Hammer Incumbent Dems Over AIG Birthday Party
A man enters an AIG office building in 2009 in New York. American International Group Inc. used federal aid to pay out foreign and domestic banks, some of whom had received their own multibillion-dollar US government bailouts.Mark Lennihan/AP Insurance giant AIG held a 100th birthday party in the House Ways and Means Committee’s hearing room…
North Carolina Gerrymander Is Struck Down
Republican state senators in North Carolina review state maps while drawing new congressional districts on Feb. 16, 2016.Corey Lowenstein/AP A couple of months ago a state court in North Carolina struck down the legislature’s gerrymandered maps for state legislative districts. Today the same court struck down the maps for congressional districts. (Why a state court?…
Revenge Porn Drove Katie Hill From Office. How Can She Fight Back?
Faye Sadou/AP On Sunday, Rep. Katie Hill (D-Calif.), announced she was stepping down, putting an end to a recently launched House Ethics Committee investigation into her alleged affair with a male aide. But her resignation won’t stop the spread of nude photos of Hill, published by the right-wing news site RedState and the British tabloid the Daily…
Judges Throw Out North Carolina Congressional Maps Ahead of 2020 Elections
Carolyn Kaster / AP North Carolina’s congressional maps were likely designed as “extreme partisan gerrymanders” and must be redrawn before the 2020 election, a panel of three state judges ruled Monday. The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit brought by Eric Holder’s group seeking to end gerrymandering. The group challenged maps the Republican state legislature had drawn…
James Mattis Doesn’t Want You to Read This Book
Chip Somodevilla/Getty After James Mattis flew across the country nearly three years ago to interview with Donald Trump for the Secretary of Defense post, the retired Marine Corps general was sure he had flunked the test. “I certainly won’t be hearing back from those guys,” Mattis later recalled to his staff in one of many…
Will Missouri Become the First State Without an Abortion Clinic Since Roe v. Wade?
Abortion rights supporters take part in a protest on May 30 in St. Louis. Jeff Roberson/AP Photo A hearing this week will determine the fate of Missouri’s only remaining abortion clinic—and whether Missouri will become the first state in the country not to have a single abortion clinic since Roe v. Wade. At the conclusion…