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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
... is the Republicans losing their minds a good thing? Because they've begun to say the quiet parts out loud and it's inexplicably not working out as poorly for them as it should.
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Kinda, losing their mind is something of a lost in long term because no everyone is around when the damn lunatics star showing how awfull they are, there is a reason the republican are doubling down on gerrymending and other awfull tactics: they cant win without it.
The more the dems opose at every corner, the better.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"@Wisewillow: The ruling still allows for state courts, even Congress, to strike down gerrymanders, which is what happened in Pennsylvania last year and could happen in NC this one. That's why I called it, mostly, a continuation of the current status quo.
Edited by Grafite on Jun 27th 2019 at 6:36:49 PM
Life is unfair...https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/06/27/day-889/
2/ The Supreme Court ruled that federal courts cannot block partisan gerrymandering in a 5-4 decision that fell along partisan lines. Chief Justice John Roberts rejected two constitutional challenges to partisan district mapmaking – one brought by Democrats in North Carolina and another by Republicans in Maryland – writing that "partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts." Districts are drawn nationwide every 10 years, and the next redistricting is scheduled to take place following the 2020 census, which also triggers reapportionment of U.S. House seats among states. Because of the 2010 midterm elections, the Republican party controls most statehouses across the country and, by extension, jurisdiction over the redistricting process. Dissenting Justice Elena Kagan called the decision "tragically wrong." (Washington Post / New York Times / NBC News / Politico / NPR / CNN / Bloomberg / USA Today / CNBC / Associated Press / The Guardian / Wall Street Journal)
https://apnews.com/4156cf044e314b5bb9f2d0a99f4bc2b2
3/ Trump marked his arrival in Japan for the G20 Summit by lashing out at U.S. allies. He complained that if the U.S. were attacked, Japan would simply "watch it on a Sony television" instead of coming to America's defense. He called Germany a security freeloader, and complained about India's new tariffs on U.S. goods. Trump is scheduled to meet with the leaders of all three countries on Friday. Trump did not, however, have anything negative to say about the fourth world leader on his meeting schedule for Friday: Putin. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/world/asia/trump-g20.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/27/us-india-trade-donald-trump-on-indias-tariff-hike-on-us-goods.html
4/ Trump told reporters that what he says to Putin in private is "none of your business," when asked what the two world leaders will discuss behind closed doors at the G20 Summit. Trump is scheduled to meet with Putin after House Democrats hear from the White House records chief about allegations that Trump tried to hide documents detailing his previous private conversations with Putin. (Politico / CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-leaves-for-asia-trip-g20-today-2019-06-26-live-updates/
5/ Two women corroborated E. Jean Carroll's allegation that Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. Carroll privately confided in Carol Martin and Lisa Birnbach after the alleged attack. Both came forward to talk about the advice they gave Carroll at the time. Neither of the women had been publicly identified until now, and it was the first time since the alleged assault that they had discussed the incident together. Trump denied Carroll's allegation and said she is "totally lying" and that he wouldn't have assaulted her because "she's not my type." (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/politics/jean-carroll-trump-sexual-assault.html
6/ The Trump International Hotel in Washington charged the Secret Service more than $200,000 in taxpayer money. The agency paid $33,638 for unspecified charges over two days in June, which coincided with Trump's first re-election campaign fundraiser. The Secret Service was also billed for $14,900 for two days in June 2017 and another for $11,475 for two days the next month. (NBC News)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/politics/democratic-debate-fact-check-night-1/index.html
Fact-checking the claims that hold up and the ones that don't. (NBC News)
5 takeaways from the first Democratic debate. (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/736451302/5-takeaways-from-the-first-democratic-debate
7 takeaways from the first Democratic debate. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/27/democratic-debate-results-1385018
Recap: Democrats Diverge on economy and immigration in first debate. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/26/us/politics/democratic-debate-2020.html
Recap: Democrats clash on healthcare, border in scrappy first U.S. presidential debate. (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-debate-idUSKCN1TR168
Analysis: Who won the first debate? Experts on the Left and Right weigh in. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/politics/democratic-debate-winners-losers.html
Analysis: Debate shows how leftward it has moved. (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-2020-democratic-debate-miami-analysis-20190626-story.html
Transcript: The first Democratic debate night transcript, annotated. (Washington Post)
FTW: Jay Inslee called Trump the greatest threat facing the U.S. (Axios)
Hot take: Trump's reaction to the first 2020 Democratic presidential debate: "BORING!" (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-slams-democratic-debate-n1022426
State courts are made up of people from that state. Leaving the question of whether a map is unfairly gerrymandered up to the same state that unfairly gerrymandered it may sometimes produce results. But you're more likely to get
- Federal Government: Hey, Louisiana. Do you think Louisiana's being racist?
- Louisiana: Nah, man. Louisiana's cool.
- Federal Government: Cool beans. Sweet burning cross, by the way.
A corrupt entity does not just fix itself unprompted. It has to be fixed by outside intervention. That's specifically why democracy has the practice of firing everybody every few years and making them reapply for their jobs.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jun 27th 2019 at 1:27:33 PM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Quick note, if democrats are able to retain the Louisiana governorship in November we can prevent the state being gerrymandered.
With this ruling it’s clearer than ever that democrats have to fight for a toehold in every state, it’s the only hope of stopping a state’s elections from being rigged.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranFederalism has the same essential structural political weakness of feudalism in that systemic injustice comes first and foremost from ones neighbors and less from the metropole far away, and without an effective counterbalance, becomes endemic and intractable.
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Sucks about the gerrymandering ruling. It’s more exasperating because Roberts admits in the majority ruling that this is actually a problem, but declines to actually do something about it. Apparently the excuse is that it’s too much judicial overreach.
I’m hearing now though SC just ruled census citizenship question unconstitutional?
Actually not that far, just halting it going through
Edited by vicarious on Jun 27th 2019 at 3:57:43 PM
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Here’s an analysis of the gerrymandering decision.
Before laying out the specific grotesquerie of the Maryland and North Carolina gerrymanders at issue, Kagan asks her reader to consider: “As I relate what happened in those two States, ask yourself: Is this how American democracy is supposed to work?” Then she takes us through exactly how and why the gerrymandered sausage was made.
Voting is the core democratic prerogative that is being further eroded every day in every way, from vote suppression, to disenfranchisement, to phony claims of vote fraud. Minority-elected presidents and senators from minority-sized states seat Supreme Court justices who protect congressional districts that cement minority rule. As Kagan puts it:
The ‘power, James Madison wrote, ‘is in the people over the Government, and not in the Government over the people.’ Free and fair and periodic elections are the key to that vision. The people get to choose their representatives. And then they get to decide, at regular intervals, whether to keep them.
Laying out the corrupting effect of the Maryland and North Carolina line drawing she adds that “[t]he majority disputes none of this.”
The majority just plans to do nothing to solve it.
Kagan then talks chillingly of how modern technology will make the problem catastrophically worse:
And gerrymanders will only get worse (or depending on your perspective, better) as time goes on—as data becomes ever more fine-grained and data analysis techniques continue to improve. What was possible with paper and pen—or even with Windows 95—doesn’t hold a candle (or an LED bulb?) to what will become possible with developments like machine learning. And someplace along this road, “we the people” become sovereign no longer.
All four liberal justices signed on to Kagan’s dissent. Accurately assessing how bad this decision is isn’t casual or uninformed doomsaying or emotional hyperbole. That said, we can fight back, and we must. I’ll post an action guide once I find a good one.
Edited by wisewillow on Jun 27th 2019 at 12:58:09 PM
You know the heatwave in Europe I posted about yesterday? Well, the heat map of it (which has already killed some people from "cold shock" by going from the extreme heat into cold to escape the heat) actually looks like a screaming face
. Even the meterologist who first spotted it had never seen anything like it.
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And now we know what it looks like when Mother Nature is screaming at us. Yay.
Pelosi has caved, allowing the bill giving $6 billion to border control to pass without accommodations for migrant children. A number of democratic centrists revolted, tanking the democratic version of the bill.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/27/house-vote-emergency-border-package-1385222
Shame on her. This is fucking disgusting. She’s allowing funding directly to concentration camps. Anyone wanna argue how this is part of the plan? She can’t even lead her party.
Edited by fruitpork on Jun 27th 2019 at 7:39:57 AM

And yet a lot of people felt disappointed despite what he accomplished because he didn't solve ALL the problems.
Disgusted, but not surprised