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By Holmes Lybrand, Sunlen Serfaty, CNN

(CNN) — FBI agents executed a search warrant Wednesday morning on Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas’ personal office, a marijuana shop she co-owns and other locations, according to a source familiar with the probe and news footage of the law enforcement actions.

Lucas, a heavy hitter for Democrats in the state and president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate, has recently focused her attention on redrawing the state’s congressional maps, which could help deliver her party additional seats in the upcoming midterm elections.

An FBI spokesperson told CNN the warrant being executed in Lucas’ hometown of Portsmouth was signed by a federal judge but would not comment on the target or scope of the investigation.

CNN has reached out to Lucas for comment. Lucas told Fox News: “I don’t know what’s going on.”

A person close to the state senator told CNN that federal agents were there when she arrived in the parking lot outside of her office, and they seized electronics and other items.

At least one marijuana dispensary, a shop near the senator’s office that she co-owns, was raided in connection with the search warrant.

Lucas, 82, has been an advocate of legalizing marijuana and has proposed using tax revenue from marijuana sales to help cover federal spending cuts that have affected Virginia under the Trump administration.

In a statement to CNN, a spokesperson for Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger acknowledged the raids but would not comment further.

“The Governor is aware of today’s law enforcement operation in Portsmouth,” the spokesperson said, ” In the absence of additional details, the Governor will not be commenting on a federal investigation at this time.”

Don Scott, speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, said in a statement that “people should take this with a grain of salt and allow the facts to come out before jumping to conclusions” given the “politicization of this administration.”

US Rep. Bobby Scott, a Virginia Democrat, noted in a statement that the searches come two weeks after Lucas led the successful redistricting effort.

“While we await the full facts of the investigation, it must be acknowledged that this FBI raid occurs in the broader context of President Trump’s repeated abuse of the Department of Justice to target his perceived political opponents,” Scott said in the statement.

Following her redistricting victory, Lucas took to social media to troll President Donald Trump in a series of posts, including one in which she’s wearing boxing gloves.

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By Dana O’Neil, CNN

(CNN) — Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo will skip the Preakness, the horse’s team announced on Wednesday.

“The horse just ran the race of his life,’’ trainer Cherie DeVaux told CNN Sports about the decision minutes before it was announced publicly. “Asking him to race again, we just want to give him the best opportunity for the best outcome.’’

It will be the sixth time since 2018, when Justify won the Triple Crown, that the Derby winner has not run in the Preakness, which takes place just two weeks after the Derby.

A year ago trainer Bill Mott elected to withhold Sovereignty and longshot Rich Strike did not run in 2021. In between, Country House – who was named Derby winner after Maximum Security was disqualified – did not compete in the 2019 Preakness. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic caused the Triple Crown races to be reordered and in 2021 Medina Spirit was disqualified because of the use of an anti-inflammatory at the Derby.

DeVaux said they instead will point Golden Tempo toward the Belmont Stakes in June. Should Golden Tempo run there, it will be a homecoming for DeVaux, who grew up in Saratoga Springs, where this year’s Belmont will be held as the Long Island track continues renovations.

The decision to withhold Golden Tempo comes amid bubbling conversations to tweak the Triple Crown race calendar. The Preakness has been staged two weeks after the Derby for the past 70 years, with the Belmont coming three weeks after the Baltimore-based race.

But much like pitchers in baseball who operate on a pitch count in today’s version of the sport, horses simply don’t run like they used to.

The original Triple Crown winner, Sir Barton, not only won all three races in just 32 days; he ran between the Preakness and the Belmont. Golden Tempo had raced just three times prior to winning the Derby; Secretariat competed 10 times.

Not running the Derby winner in the Preakness has hurt the race. Viewership for last year’s race dropped 16%.

That, more than anything, might trigger a change. NBC owns the rights to the Derby and Fox for the Belmont. Rights for the Preakness are up this year, and whoever wins the war might jockey the calendar.

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