A judge on Friday ordered special elections for the Mississippi Supreme Court after finding that the electoral map used to select justices violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, according to the Associated Press in a report shared via an X post during the 59-minute reporting window ending at 2:15 a.m. UTC on December 20, 2025. The order addresses the electoral map's violation, as confirmed in the AP article linked by @PollTracker2024 on X between 1:15 a.m. and 2:15 a.m. UTC. In other developments over the past hour, the House Committee on Homeland Security Republicans released a new "Terror Threat Snapshot," detailing persistent terror threats including the resurgence of foreign jihadist networks, rising antisemitic violence, and growing domestic violent extremism, according to an X post by @HomelandGOP. Separately in the same period, @AFpost shared on X that an IDF sweatshirt was found in Jeffrey Epstein's closet per newly released Epstein files, continuing disclosures from documents highlighted in prior hours, including a Jane Doe testimony cited earlier by the same account.
