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Welcome back, This is America readers, I'm Phillip M. Bailey, chief political correspondent with USA TODAY.
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Republicans scored big when the Virginia Supreme Court threw out a voting new map approved by voters that would've netted congressional Democrats as many as four more seats. Then then conservative-leaning Supreme Court defanged the Voting Rights Act, which has created a sprint in the South that could wipe out almost a third of the Congressional Black Caucus, which is overwhelmingly Democratic.
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Between now and November there appears to be only one Democrat-led state left where maps could be drawn to offset Trump's gerrymandering arms race: Maryland,
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Many still believe control of the U.S. House of Representatives hangs in the balance this fall, but it's going to be a lot harder for Democrats to tackle the GOP majority.
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Protesters across South Carolina rallied at the statehouse to denounce proposed congressional maps they say dilute voter power and favor one party.
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Democrats are losing on redistricting. Here are their last, best hopesGOP infighting in Congress slows Trump's agenda as midterms loom: Speaker Mike Johnson has defended recent GOP discord as part of the "cumbersome" process of calling the shots on Capitol Hill.
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Virginia Democrats ask Supreme Court to revive House map for midterms: The state court held that the new map was illegal because lawmakers failed to follow proper procedures in proposing an amendment to the state constitution.
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Supreme Court keeps abortion pill -- for now
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Mail-order access to the widely used abortion drug, known as mifepristone, remains at the center of a legal debate that is now being held at the U.S. Supreme Court level.
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That nationwide order would have restricted access even in states where abortion is legal. If the Supreme Court hadn't acted access to mifepristone would have been significantly and indefinitely curtailed for the first time since it was first approved in 2000.
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The Food and Drug Administration is now reviewing its safety, but the high court's brief and unsigned May 14 order doesn't give legal observers a clue on how the justices will ultimately rule on the underlying legal issues surrounding so-called telemedicine.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Virginia Democrats' longshot bid to revive a new congressional map. It leaves the national party at a redistricting disadvantage.
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Hialeah is offering businesses one year of free rent — if they're willing to move into a city-owned building.
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House Democrats accused the Trump-appointed FCC chair Brendan Carr of exceeding his regulatory reach in investigating Disney and other companies' DEI.
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The president's revenge tour against GOP dissenters goes through Louisiana, where incumbent Sen. Bill Cassidy faces two MAGA rivals.
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Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of a woman convicted of crimes tied to tampering with election machines in service of 2020 election conspiracies.
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