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Alabama

15 GOP states ask court to keep Trump-era immigration rule Title 42 | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Asylum-seeking migrants from Colombia board a Customs and Border Patrol transport van after crossing the Rio Grande, in Del Rio, Texas, May 22, 2022. Marco Bello | Reuters Fifteen Republican states on Monday night asked a federal judge to keep a Covid-era policy in place that allowed authorities to severely restrict asylum-seekers from crossing the border into […]

Alabama

Georgia features Deep South’s only competitive US House race | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

By JEFF AMY – Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Ga. (AP) — In an uphill fight against a 30-year incumbent, Republican congressional candidate Chris West was scratching for votes in Georgia’s second-smallest county on a recent October evening. West was telling voters in Georgetown, just across the Chattahoochee River from Alabama, that they should dump longtime Democrat […]

Alabama

Alabama redistricting on docket ahead as Supreme Court welcomes the public again, and a new justice | News | #elections | #alabama

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court began its new term Monday with a new justice on the bench, the public back in the courtroom and a spirited debate in a case that pits environmental protections against property rights. This term’s significant cases include a struggle over whether Alabama must draw an additional Black majority congressional […]

Alaska

After primaries, these 10 House members are most vulnerable | Politics | #alaska | #politics

WASHINGTON — It’s already been a rough cycle for House incumbents, and the midterm elections are still weeks away. Fourteen have lost reelection bids. They fell in primaries where redistricting or increasingly dogmatic electorates doomed them. Now with primaries (mostly) behind them, House incumbents and their big-spending outside allies are in full general election mode. […]

Alaska

Peltola beats Palin, wins Alaska House special election | US Politics | #alaska | #politics

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Democrat Mary Peltola won the special election for Alaska’s only U.S. House seat on Wednesday, besting a field that included Republican Sarah Palin, who was seeking a political comeback in the state where she was once governor. Peltola, who is Yup’ik and turned 49 on Wednesday, will become the first Alaska […]

Alaska

For 2 candidates, Alaska’s US House race is an opportunity to make history | Politics | #alaska | #politics

KENAI, Alaska — A day of campaigning on the Kenai Peninsula began for Nick Begich III and Mary Peltola under the gaze of a taxidermied brown bear. A lunchtime forum at the Kenai Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center was just one stop in a day of campaigning for Begich and Peltola as they run to […]

Alabama

Judge blocks Arizona’s ‘personhood’ abortion law similar to Alabama’s law | State and Regional News | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX — A federal judge in Phoenix on Monday blocked a 2021 state “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to unborn children and that abortion rights groups said put providers at risk of prosecution for a variety of crimes. U.S. District Judge Douglas Rayes said in his written ruling that […]

Alaska

Judge to hear arguments in Alaska ballot access case | Govt-and-politics | #alaska | #politics

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A state court judge plans to hear arguments Friday in a lawsuit alleging that Alaska’s by-mail special primary for U.S. House discriminates against voters with visual impairments. It was not immediately clear how quickly Superior Court Judge Una Gandbhir might rule. The election is Saturday. The lawsuit was filed this week […]

Alaska

Lawsuit filed over ballot access in Alaska special primary | National Politics | #alaska | #politics

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A lawsuit alleges that Alaska’s special primary for U.S. House, which is being conducted primarily by mail, deprives voters who are visually impaired of the ability to cast ballots privately and independently. The lawsuit, dated Tuesday, was filed on behalf of Robert Corbisier, executive director of the Alaska State Commission for […]

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