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Zohran Mamdani’s latest staff appointment includes the addition of his longtime chief adviser, Elle Bisgaard-Church, who has been described as the “chief architect” of his campaign proposal to deploy social workers for certain non-violent 911 calls in New York City. The proposal, which has faced significant criticism, was developed by Bisgaard-Church—an Ivy League-educated California native [...]

Voting rights groups that support the Democratic Party are preparing for what they call a possible crisis if the U.S. Supreme Court weakens a key part of the Voting Rights Act, one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in the country. The case that is causing the worry is Louisiana v. Callais, [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for helping Jeffrey Epstein recruit and groom teenage girls for sexual abuse. This decision leaves her 20-year prison sentence and three felony convictions intact, according to NBC News. Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, argued that a 2007 nonprosecution agreement between Epstein and [...]