Rep. Jamie Raskin is introducing legislation to block the Trump Justice Department's new slush fund.
The "No Taxpayer-Funded 5 Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2026" would bar the use of any federal funds to back the settlement and would also create new restrictions on payouts generally — including barring anyone convicted of rioting at the Capitol on Jan. 6 from receiving funds.
Speaker of the TN House Cameron Sexton just removed me and every Democrat — and therefore every Black elected official in the state legislature from any committee we served on.
This move strips nearly 2 million Tennesseans from the representation they deserve in TN state leg.
On this day in 1955, the Rev. George Lee was shot to death in Belzoni, Mississippi, for urging other Black Mississippians to vote. https://t.co/GQsWf6plWm