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Bryan L. Sells
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Bryan L. Sells
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Husband. Father. Episcopalian. Voting-rights litigator. Adjunct professor of law. Bassist. Gardener. Work in progress.
Atlanta, GA Katılım Ekim 2012
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🚨BREAKING: 3-judge panel finds that congressional map that Alabama wants to use for this year's midterms is intentionally discriminatory and issues a preliminary injunction.
drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Zfob…
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Today marks 6 years since the murder of George Floyd. During that time, more Americans have questioned the role and practices of police in society — and hoped for meaningful reform.
So, what does the state of policing look like now, 6 years later? 🧵
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On the gerrymandering wars, some quotes from this Wa. Post story:
@SeanTrende: “The whole point of districts is saying that area matters and place matters, and we’re just breaking that,” Trende said.
@NPersily: The [Callais] decision “couldn’t come at a worse time because the parties are so polarized and the parties are treating every change in election law as if it’s existential”
Me: “All this just further alienates Americans from democracy and makes them feel even more that the process is rigged and manipulated."
Story linked in reply.
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What to Know About the Citizenship Lists Trump Wants to Create nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/…
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LEGAL MEMO: For the love of all that’s reasoned, can we please pronounce the 1986 NC voting rights case “JING-elz” , and not “GING-elz”!!
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Have a good long weekend, friends. And remember that you are loved.
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Sen. Ed Harbison came of age when Black political power in the South was almost unthinkable. The Voting Rights Act helped change that.
Now, as Georgia heads toward a major redistricting fight, he sees a wake-up call: “We need to reignite that fuse.”
ajc.com/politics/2026/…
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21 years ago today, 3 years before he was slain by depression, David Foster Wallace delivered his unforgettable meditation on the meaning of life – perhaps the greatest commencement address of all time themarginalian.org/2012/09/12/thi…
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The AJC's @charlesminshew made a map of Georgia's primary results by precinct. Check it out: ajc.com/politics/2026/…
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GA PSC member Tricia Pridemore gave up her seat (leaving Rs with no incumbent in that race) for an underwhelming showing in the #GA11 primary
The seat she's leaving behind will decide the majority on the PSC this fall
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FWIW, the strongest correlation, at the precinct level, among statewide vote shares in GA is between Raffensperger (GOV) and Cooley (Sen.). This seems to indicate that the Kemp/Reagan wing of the GA Republican Party has a strong core but not a majority.
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This is exactly why Georgia Rs are making all of Atlanta's local races nonpartisan, by the way (and they're probably going to try to find candidates with the most Black-sounding names possible too)
GA Dems will need to lock in on voter education and candidate selection
Dj@DjsokeSpeaking
The additional evidence for this is the COA races: there's an equally large ticket split happening there, with the D-aligned candidate named "Fatima" outperforming the D-aligned candidate named "Will" by 20% Ds went into the booth saying "hmm, which one *sounds* like a Dem?"
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@AnthonyMKreis Voting in Georgia is racially polarized. Duh.
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Same thing here. A challenger with a relatively average man’s name is running behind a challenger named “Fatima.” There’s no real explanation for this big gap except voters using names as a heuristic, as rational voters might tend to do.
Anthony Michael Kreis, FRHistS@AnthonyMKreis
I suspect we're seeing voters guessing candidates' ideological leanings based on their names and voting accordingly. What this will mean is that the political parties will know to go all in on partisanship early and hard from now on. These judicial elections will get nastier.
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State bureaucrats, unelected and without direct accountability to the public, should not press their thumb on the scales in a democratic election, aside from not violating the First Amendment.
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It's Election Day, y'all.
Remember that our democracy works best when the people speak freely.
So use your voice today. Make yourself heard.
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Tuesday's GA Supreme Court elections have high stakes for the rule of law.
But @boltsmag reports the GOP may be preparing to "nullify" the election if Sarah Warren loses.
Good on @DDAction_, @emilyslist, The Justice Project, & @GeorgiaDemocrat for speaking out.
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Voters actually have good instincts about what reforms to American democracy would be good ideas, and maybe we should listen to them.
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