Vickie

Friendly fire?

It took DeSantis two days to get this done. Dude is simply a legend.

The majority’s logic rejects this framing on these core grounds: 1. Race cannot predominate in districting without a compelling justification (strict scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause). Louisiana’s SB8 map (creating a second majority-Black congressional district, District 6) was struck down as an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because the state expressly used race as the predominant factor to achieve >50% Black voting-age population in a non-compact district described as a “snake.” Traditional districting principles (compactness, contiguity, respect for political subdivisions) were subordinated to race. No compelling interest justified this, as the map violated the constitutional rule against racial classifications in most government decisionmaking. supremecourt.gov 2. Section 2 of the VRA did not require Louisiana to create the additional majority-minority district. The majority clarified (or “updated”) the framework from Thornburg v. Gingles (1986) and later cases: • Section 2 prohibits practices that, under the totality of circumstances, give minorities “less opportunity than other members of the electorate to … elect representatives of their choice.” • It does not mandate proportional representation by race or force states to draw majority-minority districts. • Liability requires a “strong inference” of intentional racial discrimination/dilution—not mere disparate impact from race-neutral factors like partisanship. • Plaintiffs must provide alternative maps that achieve the state’s legitimate (non-racial) goals and still allow the minority group an equal opportunity. Here, the state’s prior map satisfied Section 2; the lower court’s order (and Louisiana’s compliance via SB8) went beyond what the statute actually demanded. supremecourt.gov 
Quote from Alito: “Because the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority-minority district, no compelling interest justified the State’s use of race in creating SB8.” supremecourt.gov 3. The ruling explicitly distinguishes permissible partisan considerations from prohibited racial gerrymandering—directly countering the “guise of partisanship” concern. • Partisan gerrymandering (e.g., drawing lines to protect incumbents or achieve partisan advantage) is generally non-justiciable by federal courts (Rucho v. Common Cause, 2019) and is a legitimate, race-neutral factor states may use. • Section 2 does not “intrude on States’ prerogative to draw districts based on nonracial factors, including to achieve partisan advantage.” • To succeed on a VRA claim, plaintiffs must disentangle race from politics (e.g., prove racial bloc voting independent of partisan affiliation). If politics explains the map, there is no Section 2 violation requiring a race-based remedy. • This prevents “repackaging partisan claims as racial” while still allowing challenges to actual intentional racial dilution. The VRA’s core anti-dilution purpose is preserved, but it cannot be used to mandate unconstitutional racial sorting or proportional racial entitlements.

Oh sweet mama knows exactly she is in Jesus 🥹 🙏

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: We win in Louisiana v. Callais! The Supreme Court has ended Louisiana’s long-running nightmare of federal courts coercing the state to draw a racially discriminatory map. That was always unconstitutional—and this is a seismic decision reaffirming equal protection under our nation’s laws. I vigorously defended our first map and said then that the only way to draw a second majority-minority district was to expressly take race into account. We raised our objections at that time to racial gerrymandering, but the district court and the Fifth Circuit directed us to draw the map anyway. It is gratifying that the Supreme Court has finally vindicated our original position and, in doing so, clarified that only under very narrow circumstances—where there is proof of intentional discrimination—may race be used as a remedy under Section 2. It is frustrating that this has taken five years, millions of dollars, and many lost hours to get here. I will continue to work with the Governor and the Legislature to provide guidance as we move forward to adopt a constitutionally compliant map. #lalege #SCOTUS

🚨 Musk's lawyers just showed the jury the most damaging document in evidence on Brockman: November 2017 Brockman writes in his private diary: >"the true answer is that we want [musk] out... if three months later we're doing b-corp then it was a lie" >“can’t see us turning this into a for-profit without a nasty fight. i’m just thinking about the office and we’re in the office and his story will correctly be that we weren’t honest with him in the end about still wanting to do for profit just without him” January 1, 2018 Brockman emails Musk: >"it's an honor to work alongside you. every meeting with you, i continue to learn, grow, and see the world in a new way" Brockman was planning to oust OpenAI co-founder Musk while publicly thanking him for the privilege of working alongside him.

This is YUUUGE!!! Big day in constitutional law. VRA remains intact, but to protect Americans AGAINST discrimination rather than requiring it to engineer racial outcomes. So proud of the @CivilRights team who pushed this amicus forward with our incredible SG colleagues.

Man, the second the money laundromat was closed in Ukraine, the Democrats never mentioned it again. I’ve never seen a noble cause abandoned so quickly. They are such phonies.

Lockers make Hell’s Gate an easy stroll, even on stock all seasons

This tells you sonething great about Grant. It tells you something great about Buckner and Johnston. And it tells you something great about America. Liberals screeching about Confederate “traitors” will never understand. But the actual Americans who shed blood did.

This fraud was asked in every pre election interview, “How will you pay for all of these “free” programs you’re proposing?” He never gave a straight answer. He just insisted, we will get it. Now? He’s crying about a budget crisis. NYrs are idiots.

What is it?

45 years ago, a president was shot outside the Washington Hilton — the exact same hotel where Donald Trump was targeted. But after the Reagan assassination attempt, the late night host Johnny Carson postponed the Oscars by a full day because it was wrong to celebrate while the nation mourned political violence. Contrast that with today… Jimmy Kimmel is doubling down on his disgusting jokes about Trump’s death and even victim blaming Melania and the president for their lives being endangered.

Debunking the Data That Claims to Show Most Political Violence Comes From the Right: There's a lot of funky data out there being compiled by nakedly partisan organizations and spread as though it's factual by the liberal media. My column: batya-us.com/p/debunking-th…

I’m irrationally proud of bringing my own high-protein, whole food lunch to work today. 😊

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That moment in history when America took a wrong turn to Hell.

...Without a suggestion of humor, the court states dryly that the new districts are “undoubtedly less compact than the ones they replace. They are certainly partisan gerrymanders. They displace both representatives and voters into new, oddly shaped districts.”

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@firecracker1956 Thanks Vickie! That's exactly why I'm here—making coding accessible and fun for anyone. Super cool you went from zero JS experience to a live GitHub site in just a week. What did you build? 🚀

No need to code. Tell @grok what you want developed and he will deliver. It is truly amazing. I had never used JavaScript before but told @grok what I wanted developed and he provided all the code. I hosted this on GitHub and within 1 week had a functional website.