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☆ Opinion: Trump allies change 2024 GOP primary rules to help the former president
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-24 | by ( John | Opinion John Avlon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

John Avlon CNNRepublicans could try to stop Trump from seizing their presidential nomination with one simple reform – increasing proportional representation in the primary process. In fact, the number of GOP primary states that are winner take all increased from seven to 17 between the 2016 and 2020 election, according to an analysis by Gregory Korte at Bloomberg. Let’s say Trump wins 35% of the primary vote in South Carolina – with home staters Scott and former Gov. A supermajority of South Carolina Republican primary voters in this scenario would have voted for someone other than Trump to be their party’s nominee. Months before the first primary vote is cast, polls show that 44% of Republicans don’t even want the former president to run again.

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CNN —Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who has been away from the Senate since February while recovering from shingles, will return to Washington on Tuesday, according to a spokesperson. Feinstein sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and without her vote on the panel, Democrats said that they would have to delay some of President Biden’s key judicial nominees. In April, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California became the first member of Congress to call on Feinstein to resign. In April, the California senator asked Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily replace her on the Judiciary Committee, and he proposed that Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin take her spot. She needs to get well so she can get back to work,” Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, who is also 89, said.

☆ Home Insurance Premiums Rise as Americans Flock to Weather-Worn States
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Debra Kamin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

In South Dakota, 8,424 new residents moved into the sparsely populated state in 2022, while insurance costs have jumped 39 percent since 2015. In dry, sunny Arizona, where nearly 71,000 new residents flocked in 2022, costs grew 28 percent. Conversely, states that lost significant numbers of residents saw insurance rates rise much more gradually. New York lost the most population in 2022 — nearly 300,000 residents — but saw home insurance jump only 17 percent, several points below average. While mortgage lenders typically require homeowners to carry home insurance, most policies do not cover floods.

☆ Ron DeSantis' new death-penalty law is an open invitation for the Supreme Court to overturn limits on executions nationwide
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ron DeSantis signed a law expanding the death penalty to include child rapists. It defies a 2008 Supreme Court ruling prohibiting the death penalty in crimes where the victim didn't die. DeSantis' office said they're prepared to go to the Supreme Court to overrule judicial precedents. Ron DeSantis is defying the Supreme Court with a new law expanding the death penalty to child rapists — and said the law sets up a way to allow the conservative-leaning court to overturn limits on executions across the US. On Monday, DeSantis signed three Florida House bills into law, including one that expands the death penalty to include child rapists.

☆ Louisiana's carbon well permitting application heads to Federal Register
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Liz Hampton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

April 28 (Reuters) - Louisiana's application to obtain enforcement authority over carbon capture wells has gone to the Federal Register for public comment, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Friday, a key step in receiving "so-called" primacy and speeding up the permitting process. The EPA currently manages permitting for most Class VI wells across the United States, which are used to store carbon dioxide. Carbon capture and sequestration is viewed by many as a critical technology in helping reduce emissions and slow global warming. States that have received primacy over Class VI wells - so far just North Dakota and Wyoming - have been able to cut the permitting process to months from years. Several major oil and gas companies, including Talos Energy (TALO.N) and Occidental Petroleum (OXY.N), have carbon capture and sequestration projects planned for Louisiana.

☆ Here's where everyone in America is moving to
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Insider looked at domestic migration data from the Census Bureau to see how people have recently moved around the US. "During the height of the pandemic, many small counties experienced higher levels of domestic migration, while many large counties saw lower levels of domestic migration." Lots of counties in New York saw negative net domestic migration. This county saw negative net domestic migration of 43.7 per 1,000 people. Queens County, New York, also had a large estimate for negative net domestic migration per 1,000 residents among large counties.

☆ Watch: Russia Hits Ukraine Infrastructure, People Shelter in Kyiv Metro
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Tornadoes in Louisiana, Mississippi Kill at Least Three Severe storms in the southeastern U.S. left a trail of destruction, killing at least three, damaging homes and knocking down electrical lines. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency. Photo: Jake Bleiberg/Associated Press

☆ Five Louisiana officers charged in Black motorist’s deadly arrest
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

— Five Louisiana law enforcement officers were charged with state crimes ranging from negligent homicide to malfeasance Thursday in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene. Others, including a Union Parish sheriff’s deputy and three other troopers, were charged with malfeasance and obstruction of justice. Louisiana State Police via APUnion Parish District Attorney John Belton submitted arrest warrants for all five of the indicted officers. And for the first time in the case, a medical expert deemed Greene’s death a homicide. Edwards has repeatedly said he did nothing to influence or hinder the Greene investigation and has described the troopers’ actions as both criminal and racist.

Black voters in Louisiana are confused. Louisiana House of RepresentativesIn an unusual twist, Jordan initiated a campaign last summer for an amendment he authored to fail. Jordan was fine with the amendment not passing, even though many Black voters disagreed. The Louisiana State Penitentiary, nicknamed Angola. “I have to believe that every person of color in Louisiana would vote to have that removed from Louisiana’s Constitution.

During that same period, 29 states on average endured at least one federally declared disaster, according to the report by Rebuild by Design, a nonprofit that helps communities prepare for and recover from disasters. In 2021 alone, the U.S. suffered from 20 separate billion-dollar disasters. States that were hit with the most disasters include California, Iowa, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Tennessee, which each experienced at least 20 disasters during the last decade, the report said. However, states with lower disaster counts that received the most disaster recovery funding per person include New York, New Jersey, North Dakota and Vermont. Additionally, counties that on average experienced more than a disaster every year over the last decade are located in Kentucky and Louisiana.

☆ Republican incumbent Sen. John Kennedy aims to fend off a slate of challengers in Louisiana's US Senate election
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sen. John Kennedy is running against Democrats Luke Mixon and Gary Chambers among a crowded slate of challengers to represent Louisiana in the US Senate. Louisiana's Senate race candidatesKennedy, first elected in 2016, serves on the Senate Committees on Appropriations, Banking, Budget, Judiciary, and Small Business. Prior to his election to the Senate, Kennedy served as state treasurer for five terms, serving in the position from 2000 to 2017. Louisiana's voting historyThe state voted for Trump over Joe Biden by a margin of about 20 percentage points in the 2020 election. What experts sayLouisiana's Senate race is rated as "solid Republican" by Inside Elections, "solid Republican" by The Cook Political Report, and "safe Republican" by Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.

☆ The Black vote in Louisiana elections has been diluted by the GOP redefining Blackness
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Max Burns | Max Burns Is A Democratic Strategist | Founder Of Third Degree Strategies. Find Him On Twitter | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Louisiana Republicans are trying to minimize the number of Black voters who count as, well, Black. To overcome this remaining hurdle, Louisiana Republicans are trying to minimize the number of Black voters who count as, well, Black. They claim that those who identify as multiracial — say, Black and Latino or Black and Asian — were wrongly used to bolster the calculations for Black minority opportunity zones. “This is Jim Crow-era stuff — a state with a Black population of over 30% has a single Black member of Congress. “Southern states with large Black populations want to control where the Black voters are represented and how.

☆ ‘Dying Inside’: Chaos and Cruelty in Louisiana Juvenile Detention
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Megan Shutzer | Rachel Lauren Mueller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +47 min

But inside the walls at Ware, one of the state’s largest juvenile detention facilities, children have been trying to kill themselves with stunning regularity. In Louisiana, where brutal conditions prompted juvenile justice reform two decades ago, the system is again in crisis. Most Ware guards are Black, as well, though nearly all of its leaders are white, as are the local judge, sheriff and district attorney. “Of course, they still do.” In reports to the state, Ware’s nurses described carpet burns on children’s faces and head-to-toe bruises from restraints. In fact, of the four guards convicted of sexually assaulting children at Ware, Mr. Peace would be the only one imprisoned.

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