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• Vote उसी दिन आया है जिस दिन US supreme court ने Voting Rights Act के एक प्रमुख प्रावधान को वापस ले लिया है • Florida legislature ने एक नए congressional map को मंजूरी दी है जिसका उद्देश्य राज्य में Republicans के लाभ को अधिकतम करना है, जो उस राष्ट्रीय redistricting लड़ाई का हिस्सा है जिसे Donald Trump ने इस साल के midterms से पहले शुरू किया था। • यह वोट गवर्नर Ron DeSantis द्वारा अपना प्रस्ताव पेश करने के ठीक दो दिन बाद और उसी दिन आया जब US supreme court ने Voting Rights Act के एक प्रमुख प्रावधान को वापस ले लिया।

यह निर्णय Republican राज्यों में mapmakers को जिलों को टुकड़ों में तोड़ने और मतों को पूरी तरह प्रभावहीन करने की शक्ति देता है Voting Rights Act एक political peace compact था जिसे John Lewis के खून से लिखा गया था US Supreme Court के Callais v Landry फैसले ने, जिसने Voting Rights Act के Section 2 के काफी हिस्से को दरकिनार कर दिया, उसने इतिहास से उस खून को मिटा दिया, साथ ही उन हजारों अन्य अमेरिकियों के संघर्ष को भी जिन्होंने राजनीतिक समानता के लिए lunch counters, बस स्टेशनों और अदालतों में अलगाववादी white supremacists के खिलाफ लड़ाई लड़ी थी Continue reading...

David Brat represented Virginia in the House of Representatives for two termsThe White House has nominated David Brat, a former Republican member of the US House of Representatives, to be the next ambassador to Australia.Brat represented Virginia in Congress and served two terms before he was defeated by a Democrat in 2018 in a close race. He is currently a vice-president of business relations at Virginia’s Liberty University. Continue reading...

Proposal from Ron DeSantis would net Republicans up to four additional US House seats ahead of midterm electionsRon DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, on Monday unveiled his proposal for redistricting his state’s congressional maps, a move he hopes will net his party up to four additional House seats in November’s midterm elections.The long-awaited reveal, which will be debated during a special session of Florida’s legislature called by DeSantis beginning Tuesday, is the latest, and possibly final, act of a nationwide “gerrymandering” battle for control of Congress sparked by Donald Trump that looks increasingly to be moving back in Republicans’ favor. Continue reading...

Redrawn map could flip up to five seats to Republicans as Trump’s party seeks to keep control of CongressThe US supreme court formally reinstated on Monday a redrawn Texas electoral map that was designed to add more Republicans to the US House of Representatives, as Donald Trump’s party seeks to keep control of Congress in the November congressional elections.The move by the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, formalizes an interim decision it made in December to revive the map of US House districts in Texas. Continue reading...

Tom Kean, who has not voted since 5 March and whose seat is top Democratic target, due back ‘very soon’, speaker saysA vulnerable Republican congressman who has not voted in weeks “is attending to a personal health matter,” the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, said on Friday as he struggles to maintain his historically small majority in Congress’s lower chamber.Tom Kean Jr’s New Jersey district is a top pickup target for Democrats in the November midterms, but the congressman has not cast a vote in the House since 5 March. Continue reading...

Bill clears 50–48 vote to boost ICE and CBP funding as Democrats oppose and shutdown continuesUS politics live – latest updatesSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailSenate Republicans on Thursday approved a plan to fund Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants for the remainder of his term and pave the way for an end to the ongoing shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).The budget resolution adopted along a near party line vote in the early morning hours sets the stage for Congress to craft legislation allocating as much as $140b to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), two agencies at the forefront of Trump’s mass deportation agenda that have been without funding since mid-February, when the DHS shutdown began. Continue reading...