Tag: Voting & Elections
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32,000 Voters
It is the people turning out that will save democracy. Tuesday in South Carolina, voters stopped a gerrymander in the redistricting wars brought on by the Supreme Court’s Callais decision. The state Senate killed a Donald Trump-backed plan to redraw all seven of the state’s congressional districts to favor Republicans, eliminating the seat held by…
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Vote Twice
It seems this is the quiet part being said aloud. Note to my future self. Sunday night Donald Trump took to social media and demanded that states cancel their elections and redraw their maps. “If they have to vote twice, so be it,” he wrote. The reason he gave: it would deliver Republicans more than…
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VRA Gutted
The Voting Rights Act remains, but in name only. Note to my future self. Today the Roberts Supreme Court finished what it started in 2013. In a 6–3 decision written by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans voting practices that…
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Map War
The map war will determine whether the legislative branch can again function as a branch of government or if it is to be a ceremonial body. Note to my future self. Virginia voters approved mid-decade redistricting Tuesday night, joining the map war by authorizing the General Assembly to redraw the state’s congressional districts before 2031.…
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Eastman Disbarred
Noteworthy: We increasingly look to the states to uphold the rule of law. Note to my future self. On Wednesday, the California Supreme Court disbarred John Eastman — the architect of the legal strategy to keep Donald Trump in power after losing the 2020 election. The court found him culpable on 10 of 11 charges…
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Mail In Voting
These are the things we will look back on and say — we wish we had done more to stop the slide into dictatorship. Today Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the department of homeland security and the postal service to only send mail ballots to a pre approved list of people. It’s DHS…
Notes To My Future Self 