Liberals love few things more than overwrought claptrap.
Amy Klobuchar@amyklobuchar
Justice Kagan says it best
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The Legalsaur
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@SeanTrende @dilanesper Anyone who watched classic Simpsons knows what it is.
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@dilanesper Only high school debaters know what a sword of Damocles is!
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Nice quote from Thurgood Marshall by Gorsuch in today's associational standing case: "The value of a sword of Damocles is that it hangs—not that it drops.”
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@Criminalsimpson The Bobo episode has one of my all-time favorite underrated bits, where Burns and Smithers are about to zipline down in their ninja outfits, Flanders pops up in his PJs, says "howdy gents, what can I diddily-do ya for?", and Burns, without hesitation, gasses the shit out of him.
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I really appreciate that Mr Burns takes matters into his own hands when it comes to implementing evil schemes
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@Legal_Fil Only District Court judges appointed by Democrats slapping nationwide injunctions on cases they have no jurisdiction over after having already been reversed multiple times on appeal.
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I was told that attacking judges is what fascists do.
Neera Tanden🌻@neeratanden
Only if you treat the Supreme Court majority as Republican Party apparatchiks, then does it make sense that civil rights laws like the voting rights act - which had been on the books 80 years - are all of a sudden unconstitutional.
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This is absolutely disgusting. Where exactly is this located?
Clown World ™ 🤡@ClownWorld
A bar in Osaka offers a "special service" where female servers spit milk into your coffee. Japan has officially run out of ideas
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@TheStingisBack I'm sorry, Sting, to instantly bring up another movie, but I can never see Famke Janssen and not instantly be filled with a white-hot rage at Mike McDermott turning her down for no reason whatsoever in Rounders when she throws herself at him after his harpy GF already dumped him.
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The Voting Rights Act is now a ‘dead letter’ after latest Supreme Court decision dlvr.it/TSHltG
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BREAKING: @SenateDems just launched our Election Fraud Task Force—the most aggressive and coordinated election protection effort in history.
With top election law experts, we'll identify threats, fight voter suppression efforts, & defend the right to vote ahead of the midterms.
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@FloatRider @varadmehta I'm just speaking legally. A lot of these super-spread out gerrymanders (from both parties) are gonna run the risk of backfiring when the other party has a wave year. But there's nothing legally preventing it at this point.
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@legalsaur @varadmehta In theory, yes. Can you do it in practice? Don't you run out of white people to spread around?
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My take on the Callais decision, and someone will tell me if I'm wrong, is that you can't chop Harlem into seven pieces to prevent a majority-minority district, but you can't squeeze seven different areas together to make one like that northern Florida district, either.
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@KenGardner11 @Alicia_Smith19 It's kind of like how Biden won in 2020 but Harris lost 2024, despite January 6 happening in the intervening time. Democrats went to an unacceptable place where even a lot of people who would never vote for Trump nonetheless found themselves unable to vote for the Democrat.
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@Alicia_Smith19 Talarico is already at or near his ceiling for a statewide Democrat. He isn’t the type of candidate who will attract right of center voters. I would never vote for him. I would not vote for Paxton either, but I wouldn’t vote for Talarico even against Paxton.
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Another poll showing Talarico ahead against both Paxton and Cornyn and TX.
Part of this may be that Rs are still divided, so expect some rallying around the eventual nom this summer. But very clear Rs will need to invest in holding this seat in November
umichvoter@umichvoter
New UT Texas polls 🔵 James Talarico 42% 🔴 Ken Paxton 34% 🔵 James Talarico 40% 🔴 John Cornyn 33%
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@feelsdesperate And for Democratic presidents to ignore Supreme Court rulings that they don't like.
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Not the full list. We also need 2 more Dem states, the Electoral College abolished, and to pack the Supreme Court. Only then will democracy be *safe.*
Greg Price@greg_price11
Democracy is literally dying in America unless Democrats can draw congressional districts based on race, count illegal aliens in the census, and end requirements to show an ID to vote.
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@Legal_Fil My favorite Rose Delauro moment was Elon Musk calling her a Skeksis. The resemblance is indeed uncanny.
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I always laugh when people periodically rediscover Rosa DeLauro’s existence, expressing shock about whatever wack-a-doo moment she just had.
And I’m thinking, “she is an 80 year old with purple hair. What were you expecting?”
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House Minority Leader unwittingly cuts awesome campaign ad for Republican Party.
TheBlaze@theblaze
Hakeem Jeffries: “We're now at a point where affirmative action is gone, diversity is gone, equity is gone, inclusion is gone...”
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@BradOnMessage This isn't even Callais = Plessy. The invocation of Taney makes it far worse: this idiot is saying Callais is worse than Dred Scott.
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Stupid assertions like this - that Callais = Plessy - is a great example of why the Democrats are at their lowest ebb in approval ratings ever.
Jaime Harrison@harrisonjaime
Let’s stop dancing around it: under John Roberts, this is the worst Supreme Court in American history. Yes, worse than the Taney Court. Full stop.
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@SenAdamSchiff "Today's Supreme Court decision essentially guts the last remaining tool of the Voting Rights Act used to prevent racial gerrymanders."
It literally outlawed racial gerrymanders and struck down a racially gerrymandered seat.
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Today's Supreme Court decision essentially guts the last remaining tool of the Voting Rights Act used to prevent racial gerrymanders.
Republicans across the country can now redraw congressional maps to even further disenfranchise communities of color.
Yet another partisan and destructive decision.
The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: The Supreme Court struck down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana, weakening a landmark voting rights law’s protections against discrimination in redistricting. apnews.com/article/suprem…
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@jamestalarico Yes James, how did that ban on gerrymandering just work out in Virginia?
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When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a national ban to end gerrymandering once and for all.
The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: The Supreme Court struck down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana, weakening a landmark voting rights law’s protections against discrimination in redistricting. apnews.com/article/suprem…
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You literally didn’t read the decision. Alabama can go back to 1 VRA district, not eliminate them all.
Zachary Donnini@ZacharyDonnini
With a weakened Section 2, it is more likely than not that Alabama adopts a map similar to this by 2032 at the latest. It would flip two majority-Black seats from 🔵 to 🔴.
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As long as the intention is partisan and the result is partisan, none of that matters (and the few things that do still matter are not really going to be provable (actual discriminatory intent, which no one will ever openly demonstrate) or matter (that the same result could be achieved in a more neutral way, which would still result in the same partisan breakdown).
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Would say the same for the Memphis seat, as well as St. Louis.
Theres an underlying matter of compactness that seems to matter here still. Stringy seats like LA-06 and I believe eventually AL-02 are dead, you can’t do those anymore.
Fairly compact seats like MS-02, TN-09, MO-01, all of the Atlanta area seats, even GA-02 id argue, are still protected with Gingles and Section Two not completely abolished.
But I’m sure this will be tested. I’m not a lawyer (though I consider myself fairly competent on redistricting law) and others will try. Time will tell. More lawsuits to come.
Zach Kronsberg@Prezidentzkronz
@JosephSzymanski What about Tennessee?
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@BRyvkin Especially the ole "I join the majority opinion in full and am just adding 3-4 extra paragraphs about how terrible this law/precedent was and how much more it should still be destroyed" format.
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An Alito majority opinion with a Thomas concurrence is for constitutionalist SCOTUS watchers like Mariano Rivera closing a game for Sandy Koufax in his prime.
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