The Redistricting Reckoning: DOJ Says California Used Race to Gerrymander [WATCH]

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This week, the Department of Justice joined a lawsuit against Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, alleging that California reshaped its congressional map not out of civic duty but partisan ambition. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division says California’s mapmakers aren’t hiding their intent. They charge that race was “used as a proxy” to engineer districts tilted toward Democrats. And they argue the maneuver was meant to counter Texas’ redistricting battle, which produced a series of Republican-leaning seats. “In the press, California’s legislators and governor sold a plan to promote the interests of Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections,” the DOJ lawyers wrote.

A Table Apart: Café Milano Moment Exposes Obama-Biden Democratic Fracture [WATCH]

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There are moments in politics when the mask slips, and a small scene in a crowded room tells the larger truth. ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl says the truth about former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden isn’t tension or distance — it’s that things are “really bad.” On Katie Couric’s podcast last week, Karl described a quiet but telling tableau in Washington, D.C. Obama and Biden, once joined at the hip, found themselves at Café Milano — that diplomatic salon disguised as a restaurant — their security teams practically brushing past one another. Yet the two men never met

California Scheming: The Case of Newsom’s Former Chief of Staff and the Vanishing Funds

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There are stories that land with the weight of a thud. Not because they surprise us, but because they confirm something we already sensed in the political atmosphere. This is one of them. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff was hauled into federal court Wednesday, hit with a 23-count indictment accusing her of plotting to steal $225,000 and funnel it to a friend, according to the Justice Department. Dana Williamson, 53, now stands accused of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, defrauding the United States, obstructing justice, filing false tax returns, and lying to investigators. It is

The Road to Ruin: Duffy’s DOT Reveals California Issued 17K Truck Licenses to Non-Citizens

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The U.S. Department of Transportation revealed Wednesday that California has been illegally issuing commercial driver’s licenses to thousands of foreign-born, non-domiciled applicants — putting eighteen-wheelers in the hands of “dangerous foreign drivers,” said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. The department’s audit found that in California, more than a quarter of the non-domiciled CDLs reviewed were improperly issued. Duffy accused the state of “issuing tens of thousands of these licenses to non-citizens,” calling it a loophole that had grown into a national safety risk. “After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed,” Duffy said.

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