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Herschel Walker to face Senator Raphael Warnock in Georgia Senate race
Walker defeated five fellow Republicans, including Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black and former Trump administration official and Navy veteran Latham Saddler.

Texas Attorney General Paxton defeats Bush in GOP runoff

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won his Republican runoff election against Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush on Tuesday despite facing a slew of legal problems, including an FBI investigation and a trial on securities fraud charges.

Trump press secretary Sanders wins GOP Arkansas governor nod

Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders won the Republican nomination for Arkansas governor on Tuesday after a campaign where she focused primarily on national issues and criticizing President Biden.

Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger beats Trump ally
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who was a top target of former president Donald Trump, has won the Republican primary as he seeks reelection.

Marjorie Taylor Greene wins GOP primary in Georgia

A defiant US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene easily defeated five fellow Republicans on Tuesday in a primary race that showed her conservative Georgia constituents standing steadfastly beside her after a turbulent freshman term.

Abrams wins Democratic nod for Georgia governor

Abrams became a star in the Democratic Party after her first gubernatorial election and ran unopposed in this year’s primary. She has become a leading advocate for voting rights.

Kemp cruises to victory in Georgia, dealing blow to Trump but not his voter fraud lies

Still, a vote for Governor Brian Kemp did not necessarily signify a rejection of former president Donald Trump or his claims of fraud.
Takeaways: Trump’s big primary defeat; scandals for the win

Abortion, women’s rights grow as priorities, new poll finds

A new poll finds a growing percentage of Americans calling out abortion or women’s rights as priorities for the government in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Trump group pays for Jan. 6 lawyers, raising concerns of witness pressure

Former President Donald Trump’s political organization and his allies have paid for or promised to finance the legal fees of more than a dozen witnesses called in the congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack.

Biden, chiding court, endorses ending filibuster to codify abortion rights

The president condemned what he called the “outrageous behavior” of the Supreme Court in overturning Roe v. Wade and said for the first time that he supported ending the filibuster to protect a woman’s right to an abortion and a broader constitutional right to privacy.

Citing ‘domestic threat,’ Cheney says it’s time for GOP to choose

“At this moment, we are confronting a domestic threat that we have never faced before — and that is a former president who is attempting to unravel the foundations of our constitutional republic,” Cheney said.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in, becomes first Black woman on Supreme Court

“With a full heart, I accept the solemn responsibility of supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States and administering justice without fear or favor, so help me God,” Ketanji Brown Jackson said in a statement issued by the court.

Analysis

The irony of this year’s US Supreme Court term

While individual justices may be putting themselves in a 1788 state of mind, they are acting in accordance with 2022 American tribal culture.

Biden backs changing Senate filibuster rules to pass abortion, privacy protections

President Biden said Thursday that he would support an exception to the Senate filibuster to protect abortion access, a shift that comes as Democrats coalesce around an election-year message intended to rally voters who are outraged or deflated by the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Supreme Court to hear GOP appeal that could limit state courts

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear an appeal from North Carolina Republicans that could drastically limit state court authority over congressional redistricting, as well as elections for Congress and the presidency.

Ketanji Brown Jackson was just sworn in as first Black woman to serve on SCOTUS. Here’s what you need to know about her

United States Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in Thursday at noon as the Supreme Court’s 116th justice, making history as the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court.

Supreme Court limits EPA’s regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants

By a 6-3 vote, with conservatives in the majority, the court said that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming.

Here’s a list of people who allegedly requested presidential pardons following the Jan. 6 attack, according to testimony

Here is a list of Republican lawmakers and others who allegedly asked Donald Trump for a pardon following the insurrection at the Capitol, according to testimony revealed during the Jan. 6 hearings so far.

About half say Trump should be charged for role in Jan. 6 insurrection, new poll shows

The poll was conducted after five public hearings by the House committee, investigating Jan. 6, which has sought to paint Donald Trump’s potential criminal culpability in the events that led to deadly insurrection

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