{"id":4030,"date":"2026-05-29T10:39:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/2026\/05\/29\/bondi-to-face-closed-door-questioning-from-house-committee-over-epstein-files-us-politics\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:39:52","slug":"bondi-to-face-closed-door-questioning-from-house-committee-over-epstein-files-us-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=4030","title":{"rendered":"Bondi to face closed-door questioning from House committee over Epstein files \u2013 US politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Republicans in Louisiana are poised to eliminate a majority-Black congressional district that elected a Democrat in response to a recent US Supreme Court ruling that its map constituted an illegal racial gerrymander.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A redistricting plan passed on Thursday by the state House would give Republicans a chance at picking up an additional seat in this year\u2019s midterm elections, AP reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It also would protect House speaker Mike Johnson from facing a more difficult reelection. The plan needs only a final Senate vote, which could come on Friday, to go to Republican governor Jeff Landry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe drew this map in an effort to safely maximize Republican strength,\u201d said state representative Beau Beaullieu, a Republican who chairs the chamber\u2019s redistricting committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Since the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in late April, several other Southern states already have seized upon a weakened federal Voting Rights Act to try to redraw their own congressional districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in Louisiana are poised to eliminate a majority-Black congressional district that elected a Democrat in response to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}