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DETROIT -- The Justice Department is suing a Detroit suburb, alleging that it violates the Voting Rights Act by denying black residents an eq stanley cup ual opportunity to elect city council members of their choice.The lawsuit, which was filed Tue stanley becher sday in Detroit, says no black candidate has ever served on the Eastpointe City Council and that white voters have consistently opposed and defeated black votersrsquo; preferred black candidates. It seeks a court order that would force Eastpointe to change how its city council is elected. It currently consists of the mayor and four council members who serve staggered four-year terms.Of the 32,000 people living in Eastpointe in 2010, nearly 10,000 were black, according to the U.S. Census. Current estimates place the cityrsquo  black population at closer to 40 percent.                                        Eastpointersquo  black voters consistently vote for black city council and school board candidates, however none of them have ever been elected, the lawsuit contends.A review of elections shows the black population of Eastpointe is polit stanley website ically cohesive and that the white population votes sufficiently as a bloc to usually defeat the preferred candidate of black voters, the lawsuit argues.        If Eastpointe had four voting districts, the black community is ldquo ufficiently numerous and geographically compact to constitute a majority of the citizen voting-age population in one single-member district, the lawsuit con Eimn Giuliani: Don t Cast Stones At Me
Top Republicans are increasingly worried that GOP candidates this fall might be burned by a fire that s roaring through the conservative base: demand for the repeal of President Barack Obama s new health care law.It s fine to criticize the health law and the way Democrats pushed it through Congress without a single GOP vote, these party leaders say. But focusing on its outright repeal carries two big risks.Repeal is politically and legally unlikely, and grass-roots activists may feel disillusioned by a failed crusade. More important, say strategists from both parties, a fierce  repeal the bill  stance might prove far less popular in a general election than in a conservative-dominated GOP primary, especially in states such as Illinois and California.                                        Democrats are counting on that scenario. They say more Americans will learn of the new law s benefits over time and anger over its messy legislative pedigree will fade. For months, Democrats have eagerly catalogued Republican Congressional candidates who pledge to repeal the health care law, vowing to make them pay in November.Republican leaders are stepping cautiously, wary of angering staunchly conservative voters bent o stanley quencher n repealing the new law. In recent public comments, they have quietly played down the notion of stanley thermoskannen  repealing the law while emphasizing claims that it will hurt jobs, the economy and the deficit.        Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, who chair stanley mug s the committee responsible for electing

Ecjn Final vote on Kavanaugh is less than 24 hours away
DETROIT -- The Justice Department is suing a Detroit suburb, alleging that it violates the Voting Rights Act by denying black residents an eq stanley cup ual opportunity to elect city council members of their choice.The lawsuit, which was filed Tue stanley becher sday in Detroit, says no black candidate has ever served on the Eastpointe City Council and that white voters have consistently opposed and defeated black votersrsquo; preferred black candidates. It seeks a court order that would force Eastpointe to change how its city council is elected. It currently consists of the mayor and four council members who serve staggered four-year terms.Of the 32,000 people living in Eastpointe in 2010, nearly 10,000 were black, according to the U.S. Census. Current estimates place the cityrsquo  black population at closer to 40 percent.                                        Eastpointersquo  black voters consistently vote for black city council and school board candidates, however none of them have ever been elected, the lawsuit contends.A review of elections shows the black population of Eastpointe is polit stanley website ically cohesive and that the white population votes sufficiently as a bloc to usually defeat the preferred candidate of black voters, the lawsuit argues.        If Eastpointe had four voting districts, the black community is ldquo ufficiently numerous and geographically compact to constitute a majority of the citizen voting-age population in one single-member district, the lawsuit con Eimn Giuliani: Don t Cast Stones At Me
Top Republicans are increasingly worried that GOP candidates this fall might be burned by a fire that s roaring through the conservative base: demand for the repeal of President Barack Obama s new health care law.It s fine to criticize the health law and the way Democrats pushed it through Congress without a single GOP vote, these party leaders say. But focusing on its outright repeal carries two big risks.Repeal is politically and legally unlikely, and grass-roots activists may feel disillusioned by a failed crusade. More important, say strategists from both parties, a fierce  repeal the bill  stance might prove far less popular in a general election than in a conservative-dominated GOP primary, especially in states such as Illinois and California.                                        Democrats are counting on that scenario. They say more Americans will learn of the new law s benefits over time and anger over its messy legislative pedigree will fade. For months, Democrats have eagerly catalogued Republican Congressional candidates who pledge to repeal the health care law, vowing to make them pay in November.Republican leaders are stepping cautiously, wary of angering staunchly conservative voters bent o stanley quencher n repealing the new law. In recent public comments, they have quietly played down the notion of stanley thermoskannen  repealing the law while emphasizing claims that it will hurt jobs, the economy and the deficit.        Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, who chair stanley mug s the committee responsible for electing