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Alabama is back in the Supreme Court — to seek the justices’ permission to openly defy one of the Court’s recent orders. In June, the Supreme Court ordered Alabama to redraw its racially gerrymandered congressional map to include a second district where Black voters could elect their representative of choice. This case is known as Allen v. Milligan. The decision was not particularly ambiguous

A Mississippi judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the trial of a White father and son charged with attempted murder for allegedly chasing and shooting at a Black FedEx driver making a delivery. Brandon Case, 38, and his 59-year-old father, Gregory Case, faced charges of attempted first-degree murder, conspiracy and shooting into a vehicle. They allegedly chased FedEx driver D’Monterrio

Eric Johnson, the Democratic mayor of Dallas, Texas, is switching political parties from to become a Republican, pledging that his party switch won't change his approach to running Texas' third largest city. "I have no intention of changing my approach to my job. But today I am changing my party affiliation," Johnson wrote in an op-ed op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. "Next spring, I will be

Two Georgia election workers suing Rudy Giuliani for defamation asked a U.S. judge on Tuesday to decide the lawsuit in their favor, arguing that the former New York mayor and personal lawyer for Donald Trump forfeited the case by allegedly failing to preserve important evidence.

The election workers, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman, who were the target of false vote-