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The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted former FBI Director James Comey for a second time in seven months.
The litigation over its Roundup weed killer has cost Bayer more than $10 billion.
The World Health Organization has classified glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup, as a possible carcinogen.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision that severely limited the use of the Voting Rights Act, making it more difficult for minorities to challenge electoral maps as racially discriminatory.
Richard Hassan characterizes the recent Supreme Court decision on voting rights as an "earthquake" and one of the most significant election-related decisions the court has ever issued.
Justice Alito's opinion is viewed as having effectively eviscerated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by imposing a new test that will be virtually impossible for minority voters to win.
The Supreme Court's ruling on the Voting Rights Act will likely lead to more legislative bodies, including Congress and state legislatures, with only or mostly white representatives.
Under the new interpretation of the Voting Rights Act, states can defend the dilution of minority voter power by claiming it was done for partisan advantage, making partisan gerrymandering a defense.
Bloomberg Intelligence litigation analyst Holly Fromm predicts that a majority of Supreme Court justices will find that state law failure-to-warn claims against Bayer are not preempted by federal law.
Progressive groups calculate that the Supreme Court's recent decision puts as many as 19 congressional districts with primarily Black or Hispanic populations at risk of being redrawn.
Richard Hassan predicts that states like Louisiana and Alabama will redraw districts to dilute minority voting power in time for the 2028 elections, if not by 2026.
The most recent indictment against James Comey is based on an Instagram post of seashells arranged to form the numbers 8647, which the government alleges is a threat against President Trump.