Democratic candidate Mark Kelly is leading in the race for Arizona’s Senate seat, while Republican nominee Kari Lake is ahead in the race for the governor’s mansion, according to a new poll released on Thursday.

The InsiderAdvantage-Fox 10 poll showed both Kelly and Lake leading their opponents by about 4 points, with less than four weeks left until the midterm elections.

Forty-six percent of registered Arizona voters said they supported Kelly in the Senate race, compared to the 42 percent who said they backed his Republican rival, Blake Masters. In the governor’s race, Lake led Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs, 49 percent to 46 percent.

It’s no secret that the U.S. Supreme court docket has lots of energy to affect the lives of People. However what about state supreme courts? Every state has its personal supreme court docket, and justices are sometimes elected. This November, two seats on the North Carolina Supreme Courtroom are up for election. The result might have an effect on voting rights and abortion entry for years to return.

For years, the North Carolina Supreme Courtroom has battled with the state legislature over elections. The court docket has repeatedly rejected district maps drawn by the Common Meeting when it discovered them to be so extraordinarily gerrymandered that they have been unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Courtroom will rule on the gerrymandering case this fall, and it might impression how a lot energy state legislatures throughout the nation have over redistricting and elections.

There are two seats up for election on the North Carolina Supreme Courtroom this fall. They’re each at present held by Democrats, considered one of whom is working for re-election. Proper now, Democrats maintain a slim 4-3 majority on the court docket, so Republicans have to flip only one seat to carry a majority till no less than 2024, when the subsequent justice’s time period ends.

North Carolina’s high court includes four Democrats and three Republicans, but that could change with the Nov. 8 election.

To flip the state Supreme Court back in their favor, Republicans must win at least one of two seats up for grabs. With five weeks until Election Day, the GOP appears to be on stronger footing, according to a WRAL News Poll released on Tuesday. But undecided voters sway the races either way.

Republican Court of Appeals Judge Richard Dietz is leading Democratic Court of Appeals Judge Lucy Inman in his bid to fill the seat of retiring Democratic Associate Justice Robin Hudson, the poll shows. The survey shows Dietz with 37% support and Inman with 32%. Thirty-one percent of respondents were undecided.



Meanwhile, Republican Trey Allen is in a statistical tie with Democratic state Supreme Court Associate Justice Sam Ervin IV. Allen has 39% support, Ervin has 37%. Twenty-four percent of respondents were undecided in that race.

North Carolina’s high court includes four Democrats and three Republicans, but that could change with the Nov. 8 election.

To flip the state Supreme Court back in their favor, Republicans must win at least one of two seats up for grabs. With five weeks until Election Day, the GOP appears to be on stronger footing, according to a WRAL News Poll released on Tuesday. But undecided voters sway the races either way.

Republican Court of Appeals Judge Richard Dietz is leading Democratic Court of Appeals Judge Lucy Inman in his bid to fill the seat of retiring Democratic Associate Justice Robin Hudson, the poll shows. The survey shows Dietz with 37% support and Inman with 32%. Thirty-one percent of respondents were undecided.



Meanwhile, Republican Trey Allen is in a statistical tie with Democratic state Supreme Court Associate Justice Sam Ervin IV. Allen has 39% support, Ervin has 37%. Twenty-four percent of respondents were undecided in that race.

At least two children who were victims of incest have been denied abortions in Florida since the state instituted its 15-week ban in July, the local Planned Parenthood chapter told BuzzFeed News.

The GOP-controlled state legislature allowed exceptions to the 15-week ban in order to save the pregnant person's life, prevent a serious injury, or if the fetus has a fatal abnormality. There are no exceptions for rape or incest, and violators of the law could face up to five years in prison.

"We've had at least two young people that were survivors of incest that were past the 15-week mark that we had to send to another state," Laura Goodhue, vice president of public policy for Planned Parenthood of South, East, and North Florida, told BuzzFeed News.

For privacy reasons, Goodhue did not disclose their exact ages or the state they traveled to, but she said that one was in middle school and one was a young teen.

In order to obtain the procedure, both of the patients had to travel "at least two, three states away," she said. Planned Parenthood helped arrange their travel, and they were accompanied by family members.

"The cruelty of forcing a very young person, who has already survived a horrible case of violence, to give birth, it just takes away their rights to bodily autonomy, and it is really turning a blind eye to what is happening in our society," she said.

Democrats in Florida had tried to add exceptions for rape, incest, and human trafficking into the bill before the ban was in effect, but that effort was rejected by the Republican lawmakers in February.

Jake Charles
@JacobDCharles

Well, Bruen continues to generate head-scratching decisions in the lower courts. The latest is from a West Virginia federal court, holding unconst'l the federal law prohibiting possession of a firearm with a "removed, obliterated, or altered" serial number.

Alec Karakatsanis
@equalityAlec
This is a federal felony committed by the cops. It’s happens every single day, but it’s very important to understand. Pay specific attention to what they do to the man’s father:

I am
@mackio_
America is terrifying.

https://twitter.com/mackio_/status/1579870140044574721

Just eight miles of rolling Palouse hills separate the college towns of Moscow, Idaho, and Pullman, Washington, but for decades they’ve existed as fiefdoms with rival laws. Back in the Eighties, when the drinking age in Idaho was still 18, students from Washington State University in Pullman would cross the state line to get blitzed in Moscow alongside University of Idaho undergrads. A few years ago, a weed shop opened just west of the state line in Washington, where Idaho state troopers are said to idle just beyond the parking lot, waiting to pull customers over the moment they cross into their jurisdiction.

Today, students are crossing the state line in search of reproductive health care and birth control no longer accessible to them in Idaho, says Katie Hettinga, a senior at the University of Idaho. After Roe v. Wade was overturned this summer, abortion became illegal in all but an extremely limited set of circumstances in Idaho, and thanks to a separate law passed by the reactionary state legislature, there is now an earnest debate over whether abortion can even be discussed openly on public college campuses.

On a Friday afternoon in late September, one month into the fall semester, employees at the University of Idaho received an email from the school’s general counsel: seven bullet-pointed pages of legal advice on how to keep from running afoul of Idaho’s abortion laws. The memo outlined a long list of activities that could potentially be considered illegal, and thus were to be avoided, including “promoting abortion” and providing birth control for the purposes of preventing pregnancy. (It was probably still OK, the university’s lawyer wrote, to distribute condoms if their purpose was to prevent STDs.)

And while nothing in any of the laws technically barred employees from directing students to “private groups or agencies of another state” — a reference, some believed, to the Planned Parenthood in Pullman — the email advised employees that they ”must remain neutral on the subject of abortion” in virtually any circumstance in which it might come up, or else risk criminal prosecution, fines, jail time, and a lifetime ban on state employment. “Academic freedom,” the letter warned, “is not a defense to violation of law.”