State Watch
Two additional Native American tribes in South Dakota have banned Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) from their reservations after she said earlier this year that tribal leaders benefited from drug cartels. Noem is now banned from traveling to about one-fifth of South Dakota after the Yankton Sioux Tribe voted Friday to ban Noem and the Sisseton-Wahpeton…
Students at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) walked out of their commencement ceremony to protest an address by Gov. Glenn Younkin (R-Va.). About 100 of the 1,200 graduates at the graduation ceremony Saturday quietly filed out of the Greater Richmond Convention Center, some wearing kaffiyeh scarves and signs reading “Teach Black history” and “Book bans…
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s (R) radio show on WABC Radio has been canceled and he was suspended by the station over claims he made about the 2020 election, according to a report from The New York Times. “We’re not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election,” WABC Radio owner…
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs expressed confidence on Tuesday that voters will have the chance to make abortion rights a part of the state's constitution in November. This could reverse a decision from the state's Supreme Court that effectively bans nearly all abortions in the state. Hobbs spoke with CNN's Anderson Cooper shortly after the state's highest court dismissed arguments for a 15-week…
The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday confirmed a law from 1864 that makes carrying out an abortion a serious crime. What does this mean? The decision, with a vote of 4-2, dismissed attempts to ban abortions after 15 weeks and effectively makes the medical procedure nearly completely against the law in the state. The law dates back to the time of the Civil War and was passed many years before Arizona became a state in 1912. The…
Both Arizona Senate candidates opposed the state Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday that upholds one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. The decision enforces a law from 1864 that prohibits abortion access in all situations except to save the mother's life. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and GOP candidate…
Doug Ducey, the ex-governor of Arizona who enacted a 15-week abortion restriction, expressed that the state's Supreme Court's decision to ban almost all abortions was not his preferred outcome. “I endorsed the 15-week law as Governor because it is considerate conservative policy and a way to address this very delicate issue that…
Florida’s Democratic Party said on Tuesday it raised $1.3 million in the first quarter of 2024, according to a release first seen by The Hill. The state party said it received 5,271 contributions in the first quarter, prior to the Florida Supreme Court rulings on abortion last week. The party said the rulings “generated tens…
Vice President Harris will visit Arizona on Friday “to continue her leadership in the fight for reproductive freedoms,” the White House announced just after the state’s Supreme Court upheld a near-total abortion ban. The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld an 1864 law that made performing an abortion a felony, including only a narrow exception to…
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