A 48-hour investigative dispatch examining the DA clearance in the Longmont police shooting of Dariss Yearby, youth gun violence in the Bronx, Texas AG voter-suppression litigation, dark-money PAC ad blitzes in Michigan, legal threats to Louisiana’s last majority-Black district, and civil-rights coalition warnings on Project 2025.
Civil rights coalitions mount legal defense in federal court for Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district as organizers in Memphis mobilize against the legislative division of Shelby County.
DOJ has sued 24 states and D.C. over in-state tuition for undocumented students, as Callais v. Landry reshapes voting-map fights.
11th Circuit vacates a 2023 Voting Rights Act ruling on Georgia’s maps, sending the case back to district court under a new Supreme Court standard.
24 states filed suit in Boston against new USPS rules that would let the agency decide who can get mail-in ballots, just weeks before the midterms.
Louisiana judges sue to block Act 243, which erased majority-Black districts. Plus: Wisconsin polling hours, NC maps, and a synagogue attack charge.
DOJ sues NY, Conn., Vt. over undocumented tuition; a Project 2025 author is tapped for Interior IG; states pass Voting Rights Acts.
The Supreme Court’s April 2026 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais raised the bar for challenging discriminatory voting maps. Here’s what changed, what didn’t, and why state elections now matter more than ever.