Eric Kane

@rexturbinado67 @VoteHub Better than your apparent 19th century barbarism.

@egk717 @VoteHub The 20th century is calling. It wants its dumb ideology back.

BREAKING — In a late-night vote, Louisiana Republicans have advanced a new congressional map out of committee that would eliminate one of the state’s Democratic-leaning districts. The map now heads to the Senate floor for a full vote. 🔴 +1 GOP 🔵 -1 DEM

@Hyperion_Bonsai @SpiritWolfAbove @grandeleague1 @VoteHub Absurd take. Are you a white christian nationalist by any chance?

@SpiritWolfAbove @grandeleague1 @VoteHub The DNC has been cheating to win for 60 years. The VRA has finally been correctly implemented and now the playing field is becoming even. If the DNC can't win in an even field, it is time to make changes to their party platform.

@rexturbinado67 @VoteHub You a bot? The conservative wet dream from the 60s and 80s is near completion. The white supremacist institutionalists and deregulatory capital predators have achieved near total victory in this era. Not all battles won, but the institutional war is at the Bulge.

@VoteHub Republican politicians are such disgraceful cowards. Willing to destroy our future and betray their supporters so that hateful communists might not call them mean words. Guess what, they’re going to call you those words anyway, chickenshits.

@Ajr9239Myron @VoteHub S the absolute fu with this take. Anyone who brings this up should disqualify themselves from ever talking district/electoral politics ever again. Read into it before you follow this bonehead narrative.

@VoteHub Not one red district in all of New England and these cowards refuse to see that.

@kewgardens1 @tonkatonkadc @DanFriedman81 This naivetee is so boring. It's fine. Hopefully we will get something better because of this gutting. Like dramatic expansion of the House. Some Dems support that.. so Conservatives will probably not allow it either. Or gut it 70 years later

@tonkatonkadc @egk717 @DanFriedman81 Except that there is no intent to dilute the influence of minorities because they are minorities. Their political influence is diluted because they vote Democratic. White (& non-white) Republicans have the same right to political influence as Black Democrats. No more, no less.

Massachusetts has a larger share of Republicans than Tennessee does Democrats, and Massachusetts has not had a Republican in Congress in decades. There is not a moral or just reason to require Tennessee, Alabama and South Carolina to carve out special, racially-balkanized Democratic congressional districts while blue states are allowed to gerrymander their districts to prevent Republicans from having representation. The Supreme Court has rectified that antiquated and unfair rule. When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

@kewgardens1 @DanFriedman81 You could say that, but you'd be wrong. You would be missing the point. Youd have a dim view of history, justice, game theory, and possibly African Americans themselved (i wont assume). And you'd be naive about the ideology of southern conservatives.

@egk717 @DanFriedman81 Looking at California and Virginia, I would say the white northern and coastal “progressive” ideology has become one of unjust disenfranchisement.

@Dagny1066 @tonkatonkadc @DanFriedman81 My brother in Christ. I know you are being tongue and cheek. But to do that properly, you can't be naive. To not be naive, you have to stop being soft. To stop being soft you have to face reality, not JUST ideology. Ideology is good and fine, but face facts too.. man oh man.

@tonkatonkadc @egk717 @DanFriedman81 Race isn't a metric for "targeting." That's racist. Stop being racist.

@Dagny1066 @DanFriedman81 Your frame of view will age like milk. But you won't see it. Reconstruction most certainly did not do its job, it was sloppily ended and handed to the resulting lynched class to agitate for more progress. Your Memphis comment is irrelevant, should know why. Also kinda weird.

@egk717 @DanFriedman81 What year are you living in? Who is disenfranchised? No one loses their vote. Reconstruction did it's job. BTW, the Memphis "black" district elected a white jew for 20 years. His republican opponent is black.

@dutchdalton992 @ThePoliticalHQ Boogeymanning the northeast is hilarious anyway. It's dumb. Even in MA which isn't that compact, Republicans are just at a geographical disadvantage. Only way you solve New England without horseshit is through national solutions like OP proposed.

@ThePoliticalHQ They can start here

If Democrats control the House, Senate, and Presidency in 2028, one of the biggest priorities should be uncapping the House and replacing winner take all districts with multimember districts. Right now, gerrymandering allows states to produce absurd outcomes like 9-0 congressional delegations even when millions voted for the other party. A multimember system would make representation actually reflect how people vote. If a region votes 60% Republican and 40% Democratic, the seats would likely end up 2-1 instead of one party taking all 3. Uncapping the House would also shrink district populations so Americans have more direct representation in Congress. Less gerrymandering. Less vote dilution. More proportional representation.

@chicagolawyerRE @ThePoliticalHQ Uncapping dilutes the power of each representative. The actual "size" in terms of what you mean (power) would be REDUCED per representative as they would have less territorial jurisdiction, be less safe in their seat, and be more exposed to constituent needs.

@ThePoliticalHQ Your first part is correct. However, the house should not be uncapped. The federal government needs to be shrunk and more power given to the states if you actually care about direct representation.

@kalobalopa @ThePoliticalHQ If they keep performing +12-+17 over Kamala, they'll get it.

@Stephen323232 @iMajorWish @Factoiddd @JohnETitusIII @scotus_wire @ElectionCenter_ These guys will be arguing why a poll tax or literacy test aren't properly established as racially motivated according to SCOTUS in 5 years. Roberts threw their rationale in the mud years ago when he naively said we'd moved on as a country in a ruling about pol gerrymandering.

@iMajorWish @Factoiddd @JohnETitusIII @scotus_wire @ElectionCenter_ Never said the Gingles test didn’t apply but multiple criteria must survive strict scrutiny and proving racial motives is next to impossible going forward so given that all three criteria must be met, section 2 is almost irrelevant for all intents and purposes. Either way, Thomas

If you wanna see how partisan this Supreme Court is, watch, they’ll either fully strike down the the VRA even though this blatantly violates it even under their conservative interpretation under Callais, or they’ll allow Tennessee to use this map for the midterms only to then rule it actually does violate their own interpretation of the VRA.

@RepBrendanBoyle The Declaration doesn't found the country alone. Is everything England represents based on the Magna Carta? Documents are written with assumption woven in. Jefferson himself explicitly and famously grappled with his own white supremacy while writing the damn thing.

Wrong. The single most significant event since Christ has been the American Revolution. We are by no means a perfect country. But the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence were radical for their time and still are today.

@LionintheSenate @SmilingP0litely @Seamus_Malek Are you paid by a foreign or domestic government agency? Only way this level of analysis is excusable.

@SmilingP0litely @Seamus_Malek Um yeah no US is waging economic devastation on iran. Only left wetting itself with gas prices that are lower than they were under biden's green energy policy folly.

Fascinating footage released by the IRGC of a class at the org's staff college in the 90s, where future IRGC leader Hossein Salami teaches a course on asymmetric warfare, teaching officers how to drag out a war with the US by driving up economic costs and political turmoil.

@LeonZeonidas @KareemCrayton Oh my.... yikes

@KareemCrayton Ratified unconstitutionally, by the way. And yet … Minor details aside, it is the law of the land. Creating voting districts by race is unconstitutional.

We learned today is Justice Alito is many things. But two he decidedly is not are (1) a Southerner and (2) a social scientist. Of the ridiculous claims in his opinion in Callais is this one: There's "vast social change" especially in the South that makes race discrimination a rarity.

@LuvTX76 @dietrichBonh @kylegriffin1 You're living in a dream world. Unless, of course, you mean white conservatives were radicalized by Obama's presidency because of the "interesting" resentment/race victim messaging from the Tea Party (now morphed into Trumpistd) and mainline GOP throughout those years. I remember

@egk717 @dietrichBonh @kylegriffin1 I see America as an imperfect country that made significant strides in addressing discrimination.. until Obama came along. Dems wield race like a cudgel to ensure Blacks are kept in line, toe the party line, and remain fearful and loathing. YOU are the racists AND the problem.

Justice Kagan: "I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.' It was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers. It ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality. And it has been repeatedly, and overwhelmingly, reauthorized by the people's representatives in Congress. Only they have the right to say it is no longer needed—not the Members of this Court. I dissent, then, from this latest chapter in the majority's now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act."

@kbr288 @EyeOnStalk @BillMelugin_ Hey Ken, sorry to break it to you but there are quite a few many more Democrats in this country than Republicans. Your land and gerry advantage is why you looked at those maps and scoffed. Not ideals- team sports.

@EyeOnStalk @BillMelugin_ Yeah go look at what those "independently" drawn districts look like and you'll probably understand why we told y'all to go to hell when you tried to mandate it nationally.

NEW: SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas issues a separate concurrence agreeing with the majority 6-3 decision on racial gerrymandering, but says he would have gone further: “Today’s decision should largely put an end to this “disastrous misadventure” in voting-rights jurisprudence. As I explained more than 30 years ago, I would go further and hold that §2 of the Voting Rights Act does not regulate districting at all.  The relevant text prohibits States from imposing or applying a “voting qualification,” “prerequisite to voting,” or “standard, practice, or procedure,” in a manner that results in a denial or abridgement of the right to vote based on race.  52 U. S. C. §10301(a).  How States draw district lines does not fall within any of those three categories.   The words in §2 instead “reach only ‘enactments that regulate citizens’ access to the ballot or the processes for counting a ballot’; they ‘do not include a State’s . . . choice of one districting scheme over another.’” Therefore, no §2 challenge to districting should ever succeed.”

@dietrichBonh @kylegriffin1 You look at current America and see no problem with ethnic and racial issues? Yikes

@kylegriffin1 There was a time in our country when black Americans needed a lot more protections. We’ve come a long way since then. Racism would be almost eradicated if democrats would just let it die like they should.

@TomHillsisyphus @kylegriffin1 You like to sound smart but retweet "of course, the party of the KKK wants racial districts" that means one thing- you are too dense to understand the answer to this question.

"one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.' It was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers." - Kagan How does Kagan explain that it took one hundred years from the close of the Civil War to pass the VRA?