'Cannot wait for Washington:' How voting rights activists are navigating new restrictions ahead of November elections
CNN
With the prospect of passing federal voting legislation dim, activists are plunging ahead with voter-education efforts and using upcoming municipal contests in places like Georgia to test their tactics for next year's midterm elections.
A sweeping voting law Georgia enacted this year now requires voters who do not have a driver's license or state ID to provide a copy of another form of identification with their absentee ballot application.
So Pettyjohn Jones and other volunteers with Sisters in Service of Southwest Georgia plan to take photos of that identification and print them out on the spot for voters to submit along with their absentee ballot applications.
Federal investigators accuse a south Florida man of traversing two continents, stealing license plates and obscuring a security camera to kidnap his estranged wife at her apartment in Spain earlier this year. But the man and his attorneys say he has never stepped foot in Spain and insist he is innocent.
The Alitos and Roberts discuss politically sensitive topics in secret recordings by liberal activist
A left-wing activist released secret recordings of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, his wife and Chief Justice John Roberts discussing a range of topics.