Weekly Brew: July 23, 2021

A weekly shot of this week's most viewed stories from Ballotpedia's Daily Brew

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Each week, we bring you a collection of the most viewed stories from The Daily Brew, condensed. Here are the top stories from the week of July 19 - July 23. Read On Ballotpedia BALLOTPEDIA

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Assessing the vulnerability of the Democratic trifectas in New Jersey and Virginia New Jersey and Virginia are the two states where gubernatorial and state legislative elections are taking place this year. Trifecta status is at stake in both states. We calculated the vulnerability of both trifectas by assessing each trifecta component’s chance of changing control. KEEP READING

Federal judicial vacancies, nominations, and confirmations six months into Biden’s presidency Tuesday was the six-month anniversary of President Joe Biden’s (D) inauguration. We took a look at how his first six months of judicial nominations compare to those of the past six presidents. Get the full data from Monday’s edition of Bold Justice, linked below. KEEP READING

Politics & Olympians Today marked the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. We found examples of at least seven politicians who participated in at least one Olympics before serving as a member of Congress. Of those seven, three won gold medals in their events. KEEP READING

Texas House Speaker removes absent Democrat as speaker pro tem Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan (R) announced he had removed Joseph Moody (D) as speaker pro tem on July 15, effective immediately. Moody was one of the Democratic legislators who left the state on July 12 ahead of expected votes on election-related legislation. KEEP READING

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