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FOX 24 US Alabama immediately appealed a lower court decision blocking it from using a racially discriminatory map Tuesday, hoping that the Supreme Court will overturn that ruling and allow it to use a map with only one Black-majority district for the 2026 midterms. The lower court had reaffirmed its own finding from 2022 — that the map’s dilution of Black voters violated the Constitution — and found anew that the map additionally violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, even under the new, difficult standard established by the Louisiana v. Callais decision.  Instead, the court wrote, Alabama should hold…

FOX 24 US This story was originally reported by Grace Panetta of The 19th. Meet Grace and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. President Donald Trump’s second Cabinet was never exceptionally diverse from the start. And in the past three months, four women have been fired or resigned.  The first to go, on March 5, was ex-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. Then, less than a month later, Trump ousted former Attorney General Pam Bondi. On April 20,  embattled Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer announced her resignation. The latest…

FOX 24 US A panel of lower court judges issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday blocking Alabama from using a map it had previously found to be unconstitutional. “Ultimately, we cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast theirvotes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-baseddiscrimination,” the judges wrote. The Supreme Court had previously lifted a separate injunction on this map, freeing Alabama up to try to use it for the midterms. It only includes one Black-majority district. Alabama will likely go back to the high court to try to undo Tuesday’s order.  While…

FOX 24 US FORT WORTH, TEXAS — A swanky stockyards-themed venue in this Texas city hosted a far-right politician whose candidacy for a top state oil regulator position asks a simple question: is racist posturing enough to win an election?  Far-right figures in attendance helped set the scene. Kyle Rittenhouse, Ken Paxton, Brandon Herrera, and an influencer called “MAGA Barbie” all milled around at Bo French’s launch party in early April for his runoff campaign for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission. It’s a powerful role that oversees the Texas oil and gas industry.  French will face off against Republican…

FOX 24 US Antifascists were fighting with their far-right rivals. An anti-immigrant group with surging membership took to the streets and clashed with the police. And a member of the Trump family was at the center of it all.  The year was 1927.  On Memorial Day, 99 years ago, the celebrations in New York City turned violent. The chaotic scenes, which involved the Ku Klux Klan rioting in Queens and black-clad Fascists who stormed Times Square after shots were fired by their antifascist rivals in the Bronx received renewed attention during President Donald Trump’s two White House bids. And the…

FOX 24 US A federal judge in Nashville has dismissed the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ruling that he was the victim of vindictive prosecution by the Trump Justice Department. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr. found that the Trump DOJ failed to overcome the presumption of vindictiveness despite a day-long evidentiary hearing in Feburary during which federal prosecutor Robert McGuire took the stand. In ruling in favor of Abrego Garcia, Crenshaw points the finger squarely at acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was the deputy attorney general when the criminal investigation was opened: “Blanche…

FOX 24 US Dennis Dahmer was 12 years old in January 1966 when Klansmen stormed his family home and set it on fire, murdering his father, Vernon. He still remembers the shootout; he remembers watching his father die from smoke inhalation. The trauma lingers to this day, 60 years later.  Vernon Dahmer had been a fixture in the African American community near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He ran a successful local grocery, and, after the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, obtained the right to register voters and collect poll taxes, which were still in effect, at his store. Members of…

FOX 24 US Choking on the blistering injustice of the Callais decision, even normie Democrats are starting to make noise about drastically remaking the Supreme Court.  Both former Vice President Kamala Harris and Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) have come out in support of court expansion in recent weeks, the reform that has come to shorthand a willingness to fundamentally change the institution. That two 2028 presidential hopefuls have come onside suggests a calculation that changing the Court will be a litmus test for the future nominee.  Even a Republican, retiring Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), made overtures to House Judiciary Ranking…

FOX 24 US Last month, the DOJ left officials across the state of Michigan in a state of bewilderment.  Civil Division chief Harmeet Dhillon demanded the clerk of Wayne County, where Detroit is located, provide records from the 2024 election, saying the DOJ intended to investigate supposed fraud from that election in the state.  The reason for the letter didn’t surprise local and state officials. This is Trump II, after all: the FBI has executed search warrants at the Fulton County, Georgia elections hub and has obtained the results of a crackpot Arizona audit into the 2020 election results in…

FOX 24 US The winner of Georgia’s GOP Senate primary will be decided in a June 16 runoff after no single candidate received a majority of votes cast in Tuesday’s primary. MAGA election denier Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) will face off against football coach Derek Dooley, who has repeatedly stopped short of saying the 2020 election was stolen and privately admitted Trump lost that election in audio leaked earlier this year. Tuesdays results are only a half-win for the dominant, hardline sect of the GOP, as their other self-professed MAGA warrior Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter came in third place. Republicans…