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The Wisconsin G.O.P.’s Looming Judicial Attack
In April, Janet Protasiewicz, a circuit-court judge in Milwaukee, was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, shifting its balance of power to a 4–3 liberal majority. Her victory holds enormous implications for abortion rights, labor unions, voting rights, and, perhaps, the integrity of the 2024 Presidential election. (In 2020, the court ruled, by a single vote, against former President Donald Trump’s demand to throw out more than two hundred thousand ballots from the state’s two most populous Democratic counties; Joe
Putin’s world is shrinking – POLITICO
Fredrik Wesslau is a distinguished policy fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and a board member of The Reckoning Project.
BRICS leaders will be meeting in South Africa for their annual summit later this month. Absent, however, will be Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
After months of insisting he would attend the annual gathering for the member countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, Putin finally decided against traveling, as the South African government couldn’t guarantee he wouldn’t
Russia fines Apple, Wikipedia for leaving up content it doesn’t like about Ukraine war – POLITICO
Russia fined Apple and Wikipedia on Thursday for not deleting what it says is fake news about Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.
A Russian court fined Apple 400,000 rubles — around €4,000 — for failing to remove material on Apple Podcasts it considered to be false, reported Russian state-run news agency TASS.
Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor had reportedly notified the company that it needed to remove information that was “aimed at destabilizing the political situation” in the country.
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Spain election repeat more likely after expat vote count – POLITICO
Spain’s already complicated electoral landscape just got a lot more complex.
On Saturday, the count of the 233,688 ballots deposited by Spaniards living abroad — which are tallied five days after the in-person vote is held — led to the redistribution of seats in the Spanish parliament. As a result, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party lost one of the spots it was allocated in Madrid, which will now go to the center-right Popular Party.
The Popular Party is now
Admitting Ukraine will be the EU’s biggest geopolitical contribution to the war – POLITICO
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Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice and a columnist for POLITICO Europe. He tweets at @Mij_Europe.
The European Commission finally delivered its long-anticipated oral report on Ukraine’s progress last month, looking at the headway made toward the seven reforms the country will need to pass if European Union leaders are to green-light opening accession negotiations with Kyiv.
On reforms relating to the judiciary, Kyiv
How Spain went woke — and why that may not last – POLITICO
CARLA ANTONELLI REMEMBERS when being gay in Spain could get you sent to a work camp.
Under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, the LGBTQ+ community was harshly persecuted by authorities and forced to live in the shadows, recalled Antonelli, a 63-year old actress, activist, politician and transgender woman. Even after the dictator’s death in 1975, she would “routinely be arrested and beaten by police.”
“They’d smash my face against the wall until I lay in a puddle of my own blood, and
2023’s most important election: Turkey – POLITICO
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For Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, next month’s election is of massive historical significance.
It falls 100 years after the foundation of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s secular republic and, if Erdoğan wins, he will be empowered to put even more of his stamp on the trajectory of a geostrategic heavyweight of 85 million people. The fear in the West is that he will see this as his moment to push
Der Legislative Judiciary Committee von Maines stimmt für die Beförderung des Kandidaten für den Obersten Gerichtshof des Bundesstaates
Der Justizausschuss der Legislatur von Maine stimmte am Mittwoch dafür, die Nominierung von Richter Wayne Douglas für den Obersten Gerichtshof des Bundesstaates dem gesamten Senat zur Bestätigung vorzulegen.
Die Abstimmung für die Kandidatin der demokratischen Gouverneurin Janet Mills war 10-2, wobei die republikanischen Abgeordneten John Andrews aus Paris und Rachel Henderson aus Rumford gegen die Nominierung waren. Es geht nun an den von den Demokraten kontrollierten Senat.
Douglas, 71, aus Old Orchard Beach, wurde erstmals 2002 als Richter nominiert.
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A Twitter-savvy US ambassador calling out conspiracies – POLITICO
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BUDAPEST — On an early morning drive from his residence to the U.S. Embassy, David Pressman kept a close eye on his surroundings.
Look, the new U.S. ambassador to Hungary said, pointing out the government-funded billboards dotting Budapest’s streets.
“The Brussels sanctions are ruining us!” they declared, the word “sanctions” emblazoned across a flying bomb.
One by one, the posters whizzed by, blaring the same ominous warning.
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Ukraine’s army of activist investigators documents Russian war crimes – POLITICO
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Ivan, 31, spends his days trawling through photos, videos and personal accounts of atrocities: rape, torture, summary executions, illegal weapons, forced disappearances.
The task is not what Ivan ever saw himself doing. Just a few months ago, he was planning to launch a video-game development studio.
Looking away, however, is no longer an option in Ukraine — not since Russia blanketed the country with troops, bombs and brutality. Ivan started volunteering for the