Racist FL Voting Law Blocked, Putin’s Gas Chokehold, GOP: Orgies Bad, Coups OK

"This Court finds that, in the past 20 years, Florida has repeatedly sought to make voting tougher for Black voters," Judge Mark Walker wrote.

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