Election experts pushed back Friday after US Attorney General Todd Blanche refused to rule out the possibility that the Department of Justice could try to stop states from certifying elections in November.
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THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Article. I.
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Section. 4. The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
Germany’s Merz Vows to Stay After Another State Election ‘Disaster’
Friedrich Merz, the unpopular and increasingly embattled German chancellor, vowed on Sunday evening that he would remain in the job, after his party performed poorly in two state elections in eastern Germany.
Mr. Merz’s center-right Christian Democrats, long the nation’s dominant conservative party, limped to their worst postwar showing in a state election, in the lightly populated coastal state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. In Berlin, the capital, they appeared on the brink of losing power after a surprisin
VERFASSUNG DES LANDES SACHSEN-ANHALT
Artikel 65
Bildung der Landesregierung
(1) Der Ministerpräsident wird vom Landtag ohne Aussprache in geheimer Abstimmung gewählt,
2) Zum Ministerpräsidenten ist gewählt, wer im ersten Wahlgang, der innerhalb von
vierzehn Tagen nach dem Zusammentritt des Landtages stattfinden muß, die Stimmen der Mehrheit der Mitglieder des Landtages auf sich vereinigt. Erhält in diesem Wahlgang niemand diese Mehrheit, so findet innerhalb weiterer sieben Tage ein neuer Wahlgang statt. Kommt auch in diesem Wahlgang die Wahl nicht mit der Mehrheit der Mitglieder zustande, so beschließt der Landtag innerhalb von weiteren vierzehn Tagen über die vorzeitige Beendigung der Wahlperiode. Wird die vorzeitige Beendigung der Wahlperiode nicht mit der Mehrheit der Mitglieder des Landtages beschlossen, findet unverzüglich ein weiterer Wahlgang statt. Gewählt ist, wer
die Mehrheit der abgegebenen Stimmen erhält.
(3) Der Ministerpräsident ernennt und entläßt die Minister und bestimmt seinen Stell-
vertreter.
Hochrechnung für Sachsen-Anhalt
(06.09.2026, 18:27 Uhr)
So fällt laut Forschungsgruppe Wahlen die Hochrechnung für Sachsen-Anhalt aus:
CDU: 18,5 Prozent
AfD: 44,1 Prozent
Die Linke: 9,2 Prozent
SPD: 8,8 Prozent
FDP: 2,4 Prozent
Grüne: 8,7 Prozent
BSW: 4,8 Prozent
Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt: AfD mit Rekordergebnis – CDU stürzt ab
Die AfD hat die Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt klar gewonnen. Laut ARD-Prognose von infratest dimap kommt sie auf 44,5 Prozent – bei der Wahl 2021 hatte sie 20,8 Prozent geholt. Die AfD erreicht damit ihr bisher bestes Ergebnis bei einer Landtagswahl überhaupt und wird stärkste Kraft im Landtag.
Mit großem Abstand dahinter folgt die CDU. Die Partei von Ministerpräsident Sven Schulze liegt bei historisch niedrigen 18,5 Prozent – ein erheblicher Verlust im Vergleich zur Landtagswahl 2021, die die Partei unter dem langjährigen Ministerpräsidenten Reiner Haseloff mit 37,1 Prozent deutlich gewonnen hatte.
Friedrich Merz will lose Sunday’s regional election — whatever the result
An outright win for the far right in Saxony-Anhalt will hurt Merz. But things will also be messy if his party has to form coalitions with left-wingers to box out the AfD.
What’s at stake for the AfD and Merz in Germany’s three September elections
(September 1, 2026)
WASHINGTON—State elections this month in Germany will almost certainly weaken Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s federal coalition and raise new obstacles to his promised reforms. Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and his coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) are facing significant losses in the three state elections. Meanwhile, the most consequential state election comes first: in Sachsen-Anhalt, the right-wing nativist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is within reach of a parliamentary majority.
Twilight’s Last Gleaming
There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully. The deeper problem comes when the constitutional machinery designed to prevent those acts stops functioning — when spending becomes detached from arithmetic, presidential power becomes detached from law and Congress and the courts become detached from the Constitution.
That’s where America is today.
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The twilight of our constitutional republic has not arrived because the sun suddenly disappeared. It has arrived because, little by little, nearly everyone became accustomed to the darkness.
Latest on California governor election as public awaits results
Meanwhile, state officials warn that it might take weeks to know the actual outcome. „I would call on all Californians to be patient,“ Secretary of State Shirley Weber said in a June 2 news release. At nearly $316 million, it‘s already the most expensive governor‘s race on record and the fifth-most expensive non-presidential race on record for ad spending, according to AdImpact, a media-tracking firm.
Court blocks Alabama congressional map, saying state intentionally discriminated by race
The panel of three judges instead ordered Alabama to continue using a court-selected map that includes two majority-Black districts. Those congressional district lines were used in the 2024 elections.
In their decision, the judges found that the redistricting plan adopted by Alabama‘s GOP-led legislature in 2023, which state officials sought to reimplement for this year‘s House contests, intentionally discriminated on the basis of race, in violation of the Constitution‘s 14th Amendment.
Trump-backed redistricting plan is rejected in the South Carolina Legislature
Trump had been pushing state Republicans to redraw voting lines so they could flip a seat currently held by Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn. It would have made all the state‘s seven congressional districts lean Republican and it would have extended the GOP lead in the national redistricting race, already netting them around nine more seats in the U.S. House.
Vor Zwischenwahlen in den USA: Doppel-Niederlage für Trump im Streit um Wahlkreiszuschnitte
US-Präsident Trump hat im Streit um Wahlkreiszuschnitte, die seine Republikaner begünstigen, Niederlagen erlitten. In South Carolina blockierten demokratische und republikanische Senatoren eine neue Wahlkreisaufteilung. In Alabama stoppte ein Gericht eine Neuordnung.
Türkei: Justizputsch in Ankara
Der 38. Parteitag der noch auf Staatsgründer Mustafa Kemal Atatürk zurückgehenden Republikanischen Volkspartei (CHP), auf dem 2023 der jetzige Parteichef Özgür Özel den langjährigen Vorsitzenden Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu abgelöst hatte, wurde wegen angeblicher Delegiertenbeeinflussung für »vollständig nichtig« erklärt.
Das Gericht beschloss, dass Kılıçdaroğlu vorerst die Parteigeschäfte führen soll. Er hatte seine Bereitschaft dazu bereits am Tag vor dem Urteil signalisiert.
Graphic: Track U.S., state and county gas prices
Gas prices in the United States, up by 50% since the U.S. and Israel launched the war, have soared as the global oil supply constricts.
Now at a national average of more than $4.50 per gallon, according to data from motor club AAA, this price increase is straining already-stretched budgets in households across the country.
Starmer under pressure, as Labour suffers heavy elections losses
The results in England, Scotland and Wales have piled pressure on Sir Keir, with some Labour MPs calling for him to set a timetable for his departure, although his cabinet allies have backed him for now.
Labour has lost power in Wales, ending its 27 year-long rule, while the SNP appears likely to remain the largest party in Scotland.
Reform UK has been the big winner in England, picking up more than 1,400 seats and taking control of councils in areas where Labour and the Conservatives have been historically dominant.
2026 election results: latest from local, Scottish and Welsh votes
From devolved parliaments in Scotland and Wales to councils and mayoralties in England, find out what happened in your area
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Gov. Kemp signs 60-day Georgia gas tax suspension, bringing some relief at the pump
Relief is on the way for Georgia drivers who have been feeling the pain at the gas pump. Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a bill that temporarily suspends the state‘s gas tax for 60 days.
On Thursday, the Senate passed House Bill 1199 with a 51-0 vote, sending the bill to Kemp‘s desk for his signature. Officials are hoping that putting it on pause will help lower fuel prices.
The states where higher gas prices could shape the midterms
Gasoline prices are up in every state since the U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran at the end of February, according to AAA’s average fuel prices. Those with particularly competitive races like Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan have seen price jumps of at least $1 per gallon.
Stephen Miller and the cultural politics of fascist subjectivity
(March 11, 2026)
Miller’s very being evokes the cold mechanization of a machine, a body turned against itself, moving without rhythm, empathy, or grace. His presence feels engineered: cold, scarred, and hollowed out, the body made into an instrument of command. It is as if a war within himself has long since been lost, a war against vulnerability, imagination, and the capacity to feel. What remains is a man armored against life itself.
The Wrath of Stephen Miller
(January 7, 2026)
Trump has described Miller as sitting “at the top of the totem pole” inside the White House.
“He oversees every policy the administration touches,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told us. “I can’t tell you the number of times a policy matter is discussed in the Oval and Trump will say, ‘Where’s Stephen? Tell him to get that done.’”
To critics, Miller is the smirking embodiment of everything they view as dangerous and authoritarian about the Trump administration. He has been called a Nazi, a neo-Nazi, a white supremacist, a kapo, and Lord Voldemort. Posters of Miller—pursed lips, furrowed brow—have been plastered around the nation’s capital, stamped with CREEP and FASCISM AIN’T PRETTY. His own uncle has denounced him, writing at one point that if Miller’s immigration policies had been implemented a century ago, their family—which fled anti-Jewish pogroms in Europe—“would have been wiped out.”
‚Trump‘s psyche‘: The aide driving president‘s most controversial policies
(February 9, 2026)
„By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland?“ Miller asked. „Nobody is going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland.“
He went on to assert that there are „iron laws of the world“.
„We live in a world, in the real world… that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,“ he said.
It was heady stuff coming on the heels of America‘s surgically precise use of military force in Venezuela. And, for a president who a few days later would tell the New York Times that the only limit on his global powers are „my own morality“ and „my own mind“, it may have been warmly received.
America, Alone
Operation Epic Fury is accurate branding for the war, Peter Baker writes. By the president’s own description, everything he does is epic — the most, the biggest, the best. And Trump is certainly driven by fury. Anger is at the heart of much of his work. He chose the name himself.
Here’s one (epic) paragraph of Peter’s analysis:
Anger defines Mr. Trump’s decade on the political stage. Anger at foreigners who come to this country and change its nature. Anger at allies who take advantage of America. Anger at Democrats who cross him. Anger at Republicans who cross him. Anger at appointees he deems insufficiently loyal. Anger at prosecutors, F.B.I. agents, judges, journalists, law firms, elite universities, cultural figures, corporate leaders, pollsters, central bankers and the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Wahl in Baden-Württemberg live: So fällt die Prognose aus
Laut Prognose liegen Grüne und CDU bei der Wahl in Baden-Württemberg fast gleichauf. Die AfD erzielt 18 Prozent. Die SPD ist im Landtag, FDP und Linke nicht. Die Wahl im Liveblog.
FDP, Linke und womöglich auch SPD müssen um Wiedereinzug bangen
In Baden-Württemberg dürfte sich im neuen Landtag einiges verändern. Laut der ersten infratest dimap ARD-Prognose nach Schließung der Wahllokale kämen FDP und Linkspartei jeweils auf 4,5 Prozent der Stimmen. Die SPD könnte demnach 5,5 Prozent erreichen. Die AfD käme auf 17,5 Prozent. Die CDU auf 29 Prozent und die Grünen auf 32 Prozent.
US-Heimatschutzministerin entlassen: Umstrittener Werbefilm war offenbar ein Fehler zu viel
Das politische Genick brach Noem eine Anhörung vorgestern im Senat. Es ging um eine TV-Werbekampagne für die Arbeit ihres Ministeriums, bei der vor allem Noem zu sehen war, auf einem Pferd, zu Füßen des Mount Rushmore. Kostenpunkt der Werbung: 220 Millionen Dollar.
Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Noem after mounting criticism over her leadership
Noem has faced waves of criticism as she’s overseen Trump’s immigration crackdown, especially since the shooting deaths of the two protesters in Minneapolis at the hands of immigration enforcement officers. In the immediate aftermath of the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Noem portrayed both of them as aggressors, contradicting widely viewed videos and descriptions of their deaths from bystanders. She declined to apologize for her description over two days of Congressional testimony.
The former South Dakota governor was also criticized over the way her department has spent billions of dollars allocated to it by Congress.