Daily Beast - Donald Trump’s businesses raked in nearly $1 million in taxpayer funds from the Department of Defense during his presidency—way more than was previously known. According to Forbes, the documents, which were obtained in May by watchdog group American Oversight, detailed $976,000 in Pentagon spending at Trump’s properties during his first three years in office.
NPR - Why are Republicans abandoning one of the best tools the government has to catch voter fraud? That simple question is the focus of a new NPR investigation, published Sunday. The tool is the Electronic Registration Information Center, better known as ERIC. It was created almost a decade ago as a way for states to share government data, in an effort to keep their voter rolls up to date. It allows election officials better insight into when their voters move and die and the rare times when they vote twice in different states, which is illegal. … Eight Republican states have now pulled out of ERIC, including many with voting officials who are on the record as praising the partnership as recently as a few months ago.
The Supreme Court’s ruling that Alabama’s congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act could lead to new Democratic-leaning districts in several states and influence the battle for control of the House next year
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