ATLANTA AP — Within hours of a Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Texas lawmakers announced plans to implement a strict voter ID law that had been blocked by a federal court. Lawmakers in Alabama said they would press forward with a similar law that had been on ruling continues to reverberate across the country a decade later, as Republican-led states pass voting restrictions that, in several cases, would have been subject to federal review had the conservative-leaning court left the provision intact. At the same time, the justices have continued to take other cases challenging elements of the landmark 1965 law that was born from the sometimes violent struggle for the right of Black Americans to cast justices are expected to rule in the coming weeks in a new case out of Alabama that could make it much more difficult for minority groups to sue over gerrymandered political maps that dilute their representation.“At that point, you have to ask yourself what’s left of the Voting Rights Act?” said Franita Tolson, a constitutional and election law expert and co-dean of the University of Southern California School of parts of the law have been reauthorized with bipartisan support five times since it was signed by then-President Lyndon Johnson, the most recent in 2006. But congressional efforts to address the enforcement gap created by the June 2013 Supreme Court decision on what was known as preclearance — federal review of proposed election-related changes before they could take effect — have languished amid increasingly partisan battles over the ballot box. The recent wave of voting changes have been pushed by Republican lawmakers who point to concerns over elections that have been fueled by former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. At least 104 restrictive voting laws have passed in 33 mostly GOP-controlled states since the 2020 election, according to an analysis by the Voting Rights Lab, which tracks voting legislation in the where two of the major challenges to the Voting Rights Act began, considered legislation this year that would have made it a crime to help a non-family member fill out or return an absentee ballot. Supporters argued the change was needed to boost security, though ultimately the bill failed to pass as the state’s legislature adjourned Tuesday without taking a final vote on said the proposal would have made it difficult for voters who are older, low-income, ill or who do not feel comfortable with the already cumbersome absentee ballot process, which includes a requirement to submit a copy of a photo Shinn, a 72-year-old Black woman from Mobile testified against the bill, saying it was a vehicle for suppressing votes “It’s no different from asking me how many jellybeans are in that jar or asking me to recite the Constitution from memory.”It was such Jim Crow-era rules that the Voting Rights Act was designed to stop, relying on a formula to identify states, counties and towns with a history of imposing voting restrictions and with low voter registration or participation rates. They then were required to submit any proposed voting changes in advance, either to the Department of Justice or the federal court in Washington, law included ways for jurisdictions to exit the preclearance requirement after demonstrating specific improvements, and dozens had over the years. At the time of the 2013 decision, nine states and a few dozen counties and towns in six other states were on the list for federal review. That included a small number of counties in California and New the decade since the Supreme Court decision, which came in a case filed by Shelby County, Alabama, lawmakers in the nine states formerly covered by the preclearance requirement have passed at least 77 voting-related laws, according to an analysis by the Voting Rights Lab for The Associated improved voter access and likely would have sailed through federal review. But at least 14 laws – in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia – added new voting restrictions, the Voting Rights Lab found. These include nine, high-profile bills passed in the aftermath of the 2020 election that would have almost certainly drawn significant scrutiny from the Justice Georgia, Senate Bill 202 added ID requirements to mail voting, codified the use of ballot drop boxes in a way that reduced the number allowed in metro Atlanta — and restricted outside groups from providing water and food to voters standing in line. Republicans have said the changes were needed to boost security. Groups in the state have recalibrated their efforts to help passed two measures last year requiring voters who use state and federal voter registration forms to prove their citizenship and purging voters based on whether county election officials believe they might not be citizens or might not be qualified to could disproportionately affect Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities with cultural family names, said Alexa-Rio Osaki, political director of the Arizona Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander for Equity Coalition.“If Shelby v. Holder didn’t exist, we wouldn’t have to worry about feeling as if we’re excluded yet again,” she said. “So, we’re talking about targeting our own communities within the state just based on what our name is and whether that looks American or not.”In North Carolina, voting rights groups are bracing for the return of the state’s strict voter ID law, which the new GOP majority on the state Supreme Court has revived. They say the law will disproportionately affect younger voters. Several North Carolina counties, home to a handful of historically Black colleges and universities, were previously subject to federal Voting Rights Lab analysis identified three restrictive bills passed in North Carolina and two in Florida since the Shelby decision that would have been subject to federal review because they affected local governments covered by the preclearance groups such as which focuses on voter registration and education in the states, the evolving legal landscape has meant moving quickly to update website information, retrain volunteers and overhaul education material to include the latest voting rules and polling place group has filed legal challenges in Florida, Georgia and Texas over new rules for registration forms that prohibit digital signatures.“People don’t realize or are fully aware of the rollback that has happened since the Shelby decision,” CEO Andrea Hailey said. “It means programs like ours have to work double time, at increased expense to make sure everyone has the opportunity to vote.”Without the preclearance process, the Justice Department and outside groups must rely on the courts to address potentially discriminatory legislation after it’s already taken effect. While remedies are built into the legal system to address harm that has been done, elections are unique, said Justin Levitt, who recently served as the White House senior policy adviser for democracy and voting rights.“If a discriminatory election happens, you can’t undo that,” said Levitt, who was a top Justice Department official during the final years of the Obama administration. “The only way to get legal relief is to make the next election better. But in the meantime, the people who were elected in a discriminatory election are in office and making laws.”In Texas, Republicans have enacted one of the nation’s strictest voter ID laws, limited the use of drop boxes and redrawn political district maps to fortify their dominant majority amid rapid demographic challenges to Texas’ new voting laws have persisted, but to little effect. When a federal court in 2019 ruled that Texas can continue to change district maps without supervision, it did so despite voicing “grave concerns” in the state where nearly 9 of every 10 new residents are years later, Democratic lawmakers staged a 93-day walkout in protest of additional voting restrictions that included changes to mail ballot rules. The changes were rushed into place before the 2022 midterm elections and resulted in nearly 23,000 ballots being rejected.“We’ve seen a drastic change in election policy,” said Texas Rep. John Bucy, a Democrat. “I think all of this stuff, if we had preclearance, would be protected. We should be working together to make sure access to the ballot box is the most important thing, and we don’t do that in this state.”In addition to Texas, the Justice Department has filed legal challenges to new voting rules enacted in Georgia and Arizona since the 2020 of such laws say the courts, even after the Shelby decision, remain an effective check to address any problematic measures.“Shelby County did not alter the fact that state election rules that discriminate against protected groups like racial minorities are illegal,” said Derek Lyons, president and CEO of Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections, a group co-founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove. “And in the few instances when courts have identified violations, they have quickly remedied them.”In its 2013 decision, the majority on the Supreme Court found the formula was outdated for determining which jurisdictions should be covered by the preclearance requirement and pointed to increased minority participation in difficult to draw conclusions based on voter turnout data, especially since few states track it by race. Of the nine states where federal review had been required before the court ruling, all but one saw their statewide voter turnout decline for the 2022 midterm elections compared with the previous midterms four years earlier — but that also mirrored the trend nationally, according to an analysis of election and population data maintained by the of the states passing new restrictions also do have election policies that are voter-friendly, such as offering early voting and mail voting without needing an excuse.“The Shelby opinion stands for the basic idea that if the federal government is going to take the drastic step of usurping the constitutionally endorsed power of states to govern their own elections, it must do so based on real and current data,” said Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project. “By any objective measure, elections are free, fair, and accessible.”Voting rights groups say that does not mean voting is easy, and they have been responding to the restrictions with fresh strategies. In Georgia, for instance, Common Cause set up mobile printing stations across the state so voters could comply with new voter registration rules that require an ink signature on a printed form.“It’s only through the work of all these communities and groups on the ground that voters have access,” said Sylvia Albert, the group’s national director of voting and elections. “But doing this post-Shelby, courts are not recognizing the true damage those laws have had.”The Supreme Court weakened another section of the Voting Rights Act two years ago with a ruling in a case from Arizona. It sided with the state in a challenge to new regulations that restricted who can return early ballots for another person and prohibited ballots cast in the wrong precinct from being counted. The conservative majority court could further erode voting rights that are intended to protect racial minorities in an Alabama case in which the plaintiffs argue the state diluted the power of Black Alabama’s Republican-drawn congressional map, just one of seven districts has a majority Black population in a state where more than one in four residents is Black. A broad ruling in the case would not only uphold that map, but also make it much harder to sustain claims of racial discrimination in redistricting across the country.“If those kind of things happen, they’ve effectively closed the door on the Voting Rights Act,” said Evan Milligan, executive director of Alabama Forward and the lead plaintiff in the reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Kim Chandler in Montgomery, Alabama; Acacia Coronado in Austin, Texas; and Aaron Kessler and Mark Sherman in Washington, contributed to this Associated Press coverage of race and voting receives support from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. See more about AP’s democracy initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

Law of the Jungle Foto Instagram/sbs_jungleProgram variety show SBS, 'Law of the Jungle', tengah tersangkut kontroversi. Mereka dikecam karena menayangkan adegan para pemain saat sedang menangkap dan memakan kerang raksasa langka dan dilindungi di tersebut ditayangkan pada 29 Juni dalam episode 'Law of the Jungle in Lost Island'. Kala itu, para pemain seperti Kim Byung Man, Lee Seung Yoon, Heo Kyung Hwan, Hwang Seung Eon, Yeri Red Velvet, dan Son Won Suk, berada di Pulau Ko Muk di bagian selatan sebuah adegan-tepatnya ketika para selebriti sedang menyelam di laut-, aktris Lee Yul Eum terlihat mengambil sebuah kerang raksasa dari dasar laut. Kerang raksasa itu kemudian dimasak dan dimakan oleh para tersebut pun menjadi bahan perbincangan masyarakat Thailand. Bahkan, sampai mendapat kecaman setelah dibagikan di media seperti Bangkok Post dan Channel News Asia melaporkan, Departemen Taman Nasional Hat Chao Mai telah meminta agar pihak berwajib menyelediki kasus tersebut. Mereka juga meminta agar polisi menyelidiki para pemain dan kru 'Law of The Jungle'.Kerang raksasa yang dikonsumsi itu digolongkan sebagai spesies yang terancam punah di Thailand sejak 1992. Jika ada yang memanennya, maka akan dikenai denda 40 ribu Baht sekitar Rp 18 juta atau hukuman penjara hingga empat Departemen Pariwisata dan Departemen Taman Nasional, Margasatwa, dan Konservasi Tumbuhan di Thailand, tim 'Law of the Jungle' telah diberikan izin untuk melakukan syuting di area seorang sumber dari Departemen Taman Nasional Hat Chao Mai menjelaskan, sulit untuk memantau tim 'Law of the Jungle'. Pihak produksi tidak secara detail memberi tahu pejabat setempat soal lokasi syuting mereka di dalam taman. "Mereka sepenuhnya sadar akan hukum dan peraturan. Kami telah menghubungi pihak berwajib untuk memberi tahu mereka tentang kesalahan mereka dan tindakan hukum untuk ke depannya," ujar pihak Departemen Taman Nasional Hat Chao Mai seperti dikutip kontroversi yang terjadi, tim 'Law of the Jungle' menghapus video yang memperlihatkan para pemain sedang mengambil dan memasak kerang raksasa dari website resmi 'Law of the Jungle' juga telah mengeluarkan permintaan maaf secara resmi. Mereka mengaku tidak mengetahui peraturan lokal mengenai kerang raksasa di Thailand."Kami dengan tulus meminta maaf karena tidak mengetahui sepenuhnya peraturan lokal mengenai kerang raksasa di Thailand. Kami akan lebih peka akan tindakan kami untuk ke depannya," ujar pihak 'Law of the Jungle' pada Jumat 5/7.Mengenai masalah hukum yang dilayangkan kepada pihak 'Law of the Jungle', Departemen Taman Nasional Hat Chao Mai belum memberi keterangan lebih soal tindakan hukum apa yang akan diterima oleh pihak produksi.

BANGKOK South Korean reality TV show Law Of The Jungle sparked public outrage in Thailand when one of its celebrity contestants dived to the bottom of the sea in a national park and caught three giant clams - an endangered and protected wildlife species - for cooking in a survival Lee Yeol-eum was seen swimming with the camera crew in the sea at the Hat Chao Mai National Park of Trang province, southern Thailand, when she spotted a giant clam among corals. Its hard, wavy shells were slightly open, revealing the bright yellow soft body gloves, fins and a snorkeling mask, the South Korean actress dived to the seabed to get the giant clam but could not move it. In her second attempt, she was filmed pounding on the clam before resurfacing.“It won’t come off!” she said to the camera before swimming off to look for a new target. It did not take long before she spotted another clam and took a dive to the bottom of the sea. This time, Lee pulled hard and managed to retrieve it while the camera crew stood on corals, documenting her victory and gave herself a thumbs up and raised the clam high above her head when she resurfaced, waiving with excitement.“I was the happiest person in the world. I did it. I caught this with my own hands,” she said after the hunt, in which she managed to catch three of the endangered giant AUTHORITIES TO TAKE LEGAL ACTIONLaw Of The Jungle is a reality-documentary show that airs on SBS. The 55-minute programme is also available online and is watched by many Thais. After its latest episode went to air recently, Lee’s seafood hunt stirred up controversy among Thai viewers and prompted officials at the Hat Chao Mai National Park to take legal action against individuals involved in the production.“We’re in the process of filing police complaints against people involved in the case, including the company that sought permission for the production and liaisons,” head of the Hat Chao Mai National Park Narong Kong-iad told to Narong, the production team had been granted permission by the Tourism Department of Thailand as well as the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation prior to the filming. The group, he added, was “fully aware of regulations and laws”.“They must have understood what they did was wrong. The National Parks Department has already been in touch with coordinating firms to inform them of the wrongdoing and legal actions,” Narong known as tridacna gigas, the giant clam is the largest clam in the world. It lives on coral reefs and can grow beyond in width and weigh up to about 250kg. The soft muscle inside its hard shells contains a lot of protein and is considered a delicacy. A giant clam has an average life span of 100 years or more. Once it finds a place on a reef, it stays there for the rest of its Thailand, giant clams are an endangered wildlife species. They are protected by the Wild Animal Reservation and Protection Act of 1992, which prohibits the hunting and trading of protected wildlife. Individuals who violate the law can face four years in jail and/or a fine of no more than 40,000 Baht US$1,300.In the TV show, contestants are also seen eating the giant clams Lee illegally caught in the following episode.“This action clearly breaks the law. The giant clam is a protected wildlife species. Although the wrongdoing has already occurred and aired, the case should be forwarded to South Korea to officially keep them informed. Actions should be taken,” said Dr Thon Thamrongnawasawat, a marine scientist from Kasetsart University who is deeply involved in marine to Narong, the production team did not inform the national park officials of their location when they filmed the controversial seafood hunt. As a result, there was no official monitoring the crew.“Every time they filmed, they had to inform the officials so we could provide assistance and monitor the production. However, the images that appeared are likely to have been taken at another area in the national park,” he told CNA.“There are many tourist sites in the national park. We can’t monitor all of them.”

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