DeSantis Still Can’t Find Enough Employees for His Voter Fraud Crackdown
The Florida governor created a new office for prosecuting election crimes — but no one wants to work there.
Akela Lacy
Akela Lacy is a Senior Politics Reporter at The Intercept and co-host of The Intercept Briefing podcast. She was previously The Intercept’s inaugural Ady Barkan Reporting Fellow; prior to that, she was a Politics Fellow in the D.C. Bureau.
She has also worked at Politico, covering breaking news and immigration. She produced Politico’s flagship newsletter, Playbook, and co-authored the afternoon newsletter, Playbook PM. Prior to that, Lacy worked in international reporting at the Pulitzer Center. She graduated from the College of William and Mary with a B.A. in sociology and Italian. She is based in New York.
She has also worked at Politico, covering breaking news and immigration. She produced Politico’s flagship newsletter, Playbook, and co-authored the afternoon newsletter, Playbook PM. Prior to that, Lacy worked in international reporting at the Pulitzer Center. She graduated from the College of William and Mary with a B.A. in sociology and Italian. She is based in New York.
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Reformist DAs Sue Georgia Over Law to Remove Elected Prosecutors — Including One Probing Donald Trump
Gov. Brian Kemp, whose commission will oversee local district attorneys, signed the law shortly after a prosecutor said she would pursue a Trump indictment.
Protests for Black Lives
Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Routinely Undercount Use-of-Force Incidents
Following Biden’s executive order to improve transparency on use of force, the Department of Homeland Security has failed to accurately compile its data, a new report finds.
Protests for Black Lives
NYPD to Pay Largest Protester Settlement Ever for Abuses During George Floyd Uprising
What plaintiffs said was the largest protest payout ever was helped along by a forensic reconstruction of the NYPD’s attack on demonstrators.
Energy Company Plotted Gas Plant in Small Pennsylvania Town — But No One Told Residents
Lawmakers helped with a plan to put the natural gas export facility in already polluted Chester, Pennsylvania.
The War on Immigrants
ICE Disobeyed Biden’s Order to Drop Trump’s Blanket Deportation Policy
A third of ICE enforcement actions during Biden’s first year in office targeted people who posed no threat to public safety.
Campaign to Recall Oakland Reform District Attorney Gets Rolling
Oakland District Attorney Pamela Price is the target of a recall campaign, joining a slew of reformist prosecutors in California and elsewhere.
DeSantis Stacked Florida’s Supreme Court With Cronies Who Wage His War on Wokeness — or Else
Of all the flunkies Gov. Ron DeSantis installed across the state, the longest lasting effects will come from his total takeover of Florida’s Supreme Court.
Virginia’s Democratic Party Is Letting Energy Money Back In
Next week’s primaries will show whether progressive populists can win the same way they did four years ago: by rejecting corporate cash.
House Democrats Refuse to Say Whether They Support Cluster Bomb Shipments to Ukraine
House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith has expressed openness to the idea — saying he’s just asking questions.