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• Mahkamah Agung memutuskan pada 29 April 2026, apakah peta kongres baru Louisiana merupakan racial gerrymander yang tidak konstitusional, menandai keputusan penting mengenai hak pilih dan batas wilayah distrik. • Kasus Louisiana v. Callais memeriksa penggambaran ulang distrik kongres Louisiana tahun 2022 yang sebelumnya digugat di pengadilan federal berdasarkan Section 2 dari Voting Rights Act. • Keputusan ini memengaruhi pertarungan penentuan batas wilayah yang sedang berlangsung di seluruh negeri saat negara-negara bagian bersiap untuk pemilihan tengah periode 2026, dengan implikasi bagi jumlah kursi bagi Demokrat maupun Republikan.

• President Trump's redistricting power grab in Texas concluded in a stalemate for parties, deemed a loss for the nation. • The effort warped minority and majority rights balance according to critics. • This outcome affects congressional representation and future elections in the state.

Three people were suing ex-Sinn Féin leader for liability over IRA bombings in UK which left them injuredThree men who sued the former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams over three Irish Republican Army bombings in Britain have withdrawn their lawsuit, their lawyers told the high court in London.Adams, who became the president of Sinn Féin in 1983 when it was the IRA’s political wing, was for many years the best-known face of the movement seeking to end British rule in Northern Ireland. Continue reading...

Former Sinn Féin leader, who is being sued for symbolic damages, also denies any prior knowledge of the attackGerry Adams has told the high court he was stunned by the 1996 Docklands bombing as he denied being at the nerve centre of the IRA’s operations.The former Sinn Féin leader also denied having any prior knowledge of the bombing of the commercial district of east London, which shattered a 17-month old ceasefire. Continue reading...

Party’s former leader, who is being sued for symbolic damages, says opponents have repeatedly tried to conflate Sinn Féin and IRAGerry Adams has told the high court that opponents of Sinn Féin have repeatedly sought to conflate the political party he led with the IRA, as he denied ever being a member of the Irish Republican Army.Giving evidence in London watched by victims of IRA bombings, the 77-year-old, credited with helping to bring about the peace process that ended the Troubles, said he had “never been a senior, let alone most senior, figure in the IRA”. Continue reading...