Christopher Blough

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Christopher Blough

Christopher Blough

@RelicCcb

加入时间 Aralık 2011
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Christopher Blough
Christopher Blough@RelicCcb·
@BriannaWu Sure, just like when Trump was accused of things, right? You people are absurd clowns.
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James Surowiecki
James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki·
Think of what it says about Mississippi that 38% of the state's population is black, but somehow you can make every congressional district +22 Republican.
James Surowiecki tweet media
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Christopher Blough
Christopher Blough@RelicCcb·
@Philip_Huff I seriously doubt that the Supreme Court of the United States would decide that 150 years of precedent are void. I'm just saying that that's the argument.
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Philip Huff
Philip Huff@Philip_Huff·
@RelicCcb I don’t see how it could be unconstitutional; more importantly, it’s far too late in the day for this to be considered an open question. It would be like calling into question the validity of the ratification of the 14th amendment.
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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
If you take the TDS glasses off, he clearly meant Biden rather than Obama and JetBlue rather than People Express, and then you’re left with the fact that the elderly president’s memory is failing him somewhat in a normal way for a person of his age.
James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki

Trump says that Obama, who left office in 2017, blocked a merger between People Express (which went out of business in 1987) and Spirit Airlines in 2024.

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Christopher Blough
Christopher Blough@RelicCcb·
@JamesAbrenio Tou voted to disenfranchise half the state. There's no justification for that. You are the enemy.
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James Abrenio
James Abrenio@JamesAbrenio·
@RelicCcb In life, if you take stances for what you believe in, you’re gonna cause people to hate you. Clearly we don’t agree on politics. But if you don’t consider us neighbors and you consider me an enemy, that’s your choice, not mine.
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Christopher Blough
Christopher Blough@RelicCcb·
@BarackObama Just like how you hope we'll all forget about your abject hypocrisy on gerrymandering, right?
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Barack Obama
Barack Obama@BarackObama·
Hope isn’t blind optimism — it arises in the face of uncertainty. If you look at our history, we’ve gone through some rough patches. But we tend to come out on the other side of them stronger than before.
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Christopher Blough
Christopher Blough@RelicCcb·
@ltgovhashmi Sure. That's why you just literally disenfranchised half the state, right? Sic Semper Tyrannis
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Lt. Governor Ghazala Hashmi
🧵 (1/2) Despite what Senate Republicans stated during Session today, rural Virginia is not forgotten by Democrats. I have been fighting for economic development, education opportunities, healthcare access, and natural resource protection.
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Christopher Blough
Christopher Blough@RelicCcb·
@samshirazim Bullshit. They put an unconstitutionally vague question on the ballot after ignoring both constitutional and statutory requirements for how amendments are introduced. And now they're going to get slapped down in VA court.
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Sam Shirazi
Sam Shirazi@samshirazim·
On one hand, Dems compiled with big picture requirements of Virginia Constitution On other hand, there are specific decisions like holding vote right before election and ballot language Lower court focused on decisions We’ll see if VA Supreme Court looks at overall process
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Sam Shirazi
Sam Shirazi@samshirazim·
Legal issues often come down to framing There are technical legal ?s in Virginia redistricting But majorities in General Assembly approved referendum twice Then majority of voters approved it Does VA Supreme Court focus on big picture or the details? That might decide case
Eliza Orlins@elizaorlins

I read the full court order on Virginia's redistricting. A judge didn't pause the vote. He declared it void from the beginning—seven independent constitutional violations. Everyone is either celebrating or panicking. Almost nobody has read the order. I did. Full breakdown below:

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Sydney Webb
Sydney Webb@Sydney_Webb1·
@micah_erfan Remember when Democrats tried to make gerrymandering illegal and Republicans shut it down?
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VoteHub
VoteHub@VoteHub·
NEWS — The Virginia Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the redistricting referendum case on Monday, April 27 at 9 a.m. The referendum is widely expected to be upheld.
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Christopher Blough
Christopher Blough@RelicCcb·
@ChrisCillizza So is the Massachusetts map. So is the Illinois map. So is the California map. Stop being a sleazy partisan.
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Christopher Blough
Christopher Blough@RelicCcb·
@swd2 @vikingben02 Tossing an entire special election that is predicated on a legal ballot language is pretty much what courts do when they follow the law. Maybe Democrats shouldn't have tried to bypass the law.
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Warren
Warren@swd2·
@vikingben02 The ballot wording was sloppy as hell with “Restore Fairness,” no argument there. But a single circuit judge tossing out an entire special election the VA Supreme Court already greenlit? We’ll see.
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