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#Senate #Republicans, unhappy with #Trump $1.8B settlement #SlushFund, delay a vote on paying for #immigration enforcement
Senate Republicans appeared increasingly unlikely to meet their self-imposed deadline for passing a ~$70 billion immigration enforcement bill as disputes over “security” funding for the Trump #ballroom & the $1.8 billion #MAGASlushFund derailed progress.
#law #criminal #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6
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Southern strategy:
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#Louisiana #Texas #Tennessee #Alabama #gerrymandering #Republicans #editorialcartoon #Virginia #supremecourt #race #scotus
Toon: The 60% Solution
At the risk of giving GQP politicians ideas... On April 29, well ahead of its usual timetable of issuing rulings in June, the U.S. Supreme C...bergetoons.blogspot.com
#Democrats #uspol #uspolitics
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#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt
#SCOTUS set the stage for #Alabama to get rid of 1 of 2 largely #Black congressional districts before this year’s #midterms, creating an opening for #Republicans to gain an additional #US #House seat in a closely divided chamber.
The decision follows a SCOTUS ruling that struck down a majority-Black US House district in #Louisiana as an “unconstitutional” #RacialGerrymander, significantly weakening the federal #VotingRights Act.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
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Meanwhile, #Republican lawmakers in #Louisiana & #SouthCarolina also presented congressional #redistricting plans that faced staunch opposition from #CivilRights activists & #Democrats.
#Republicans in Southern states have been moving quickly to try to capitalize on a recent #SCOTUS ruling in a Louisiana case that significantly weakened #VotingRights Act protections for minorities.
#law #ElectionLaw #midterms #vote
#Tennessee enacted new congressional districts Thurs that carve up a Democratic-held, #Black-majority district in #Memphis. The state Democratic Party sued Friday, seeking to prevent the districts from being used until after this year’s elections because of the tight time frame.
Even before #SCOTUS’ ruling, #Republicans & #Democrats were engaged in a #redistricting battle initiated by #Trump, each seeking an edge in the #midterms that will determine control of the closely divided #House.
#law
"If you are taking seats from black people, which we are entitled to by the constitution of this country, then you are a thief." 💯
Baton Rouge civil rights activist Gary Chambers standing up to the corrupt GOP lawmakers who want to eliminate Louisiana’s majority Black districts.
If voting was useless they would not be trying to redistrict to supress the vote!
#USPol #Louisiana #Republicans #Elections #VotingRights #Resist
#Virginia state Supreme Court strikes down #Democrats' redrawn #US #House maps, giving #Republicans win
The court ruled 4-3 that the state’s Democratic-led legislature violated procedural requirements when it placed the constitutional amendment on the ballot to authorize the mid-decade #redistricting. #Voters approved the amendment April 21, but the court’s ruling renders the results of that #vote meaningless.
The latest genius Republican move to steal the election: run a #MAGA as a Democratic candidate for Senate in Nebraska! The Dems are actually supporting an independent, which has the Republicans so scared of losing that seat they are pulling this absolutely farcical stunt.
Y'all, they know what their plan is to steal 2026, and they know they are going down in flames.
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#Nebraska #Republicans #Democrats
A Trump-voting Nebraska pastor is running for Senate as a Democrat. He insists it’s in good faith. - Flatwater Free Press
In now-deleted videos of past sermons, Pastor Bill Forbes rejected evolution, warned Islamists will "overtake us" and called for a Christian revival to combat the courts, schools and other perceived enemies.Andrew Wegley (Flatwater Free Press)
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i said it in 2020, have to say it again: #MAGA #oligarchy #EpsteinClass #GOP #Republicans are using #vaccines hesitancy, #COVID #flu and now #HantaVirus to wage biological warfare.
stop giving RFK Jr the benefit of the doubt. Trump chose him not to be Secretary of Health buf Secretary of #Eugenics.
RFK’s goal is to kill as many Americans as he can. this isn't speculation. the evidence is there. it is a statement of fact.
HEALTH CARE IS POLITICAL WARFARE
―Audre Lorde
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Attached: 1 image People need to start to understand what happens when you fire the inspectors.George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 (Universeodon Social Media)
#Tennessee #Republicans on Wednesday proposed a congressional map aimed at diluting the state’s lone majority #Black district, a swift response to last week’s #SCOTUS ruling that weakened a landmark #VotingRights #law.
The new map slices #Memphis, a majority-Black city, & #ShelbyCounty into 3 districts & likely will give Republicans the ability to flip Tennessee’s lone remaining Democratic seat.
#ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #RacialGerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #USpol
One would think that 1/3 of shipped by sea fertilizer that usually crosses the strait of Hormuz suddenly not.. would be bigger news.
Trump’s billion dollar “ballroom” won’t save him when food runs out in a nation with more guns than people
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The Other Global Crisis Stemming From the Strait of Hormuz’s Blockage
Even if the Iran war stops, restarting production and transport for fertilizers and their components could take weeks—at a crucial moment for planting.Noah Gordon (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
#Republicans Unveil Map Carving Up #Tennessee’s Majority #Black #House District
The General Assembly is expected to quickly approve the map, which slices up Memphis, a majority-Black city that makes up most of the state’s lone #Democratic district.
#law #ElectionLaw #SCOTUS #VotingRights #redistricting #gerrymandering #RacialGerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #TNpol #USpol
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#GOP offers a ridiculous additional $1B for #WhiteHouse “security”, sparking dispute over #ballroom
#Senate #Republicans maintain their proposal would authorize #security construction, but not the #Trump ballroom. The White House disagrees.
Senate Republicans late Monday proposed $1 billion to pay for new White House security measures, with lawmakers & White House ofcls disagreeing over whether the #legislation would cover Trump’s planned ballroom.
#SCOTUS restores #access to #abortion pill #mifepristone through telehealth, mail & pharmacies
#law #health #medicine #AbortionIsHealthcare #WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #Republicans #ViolenceAgainstWomen
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A manufacturer of the #AbortionMedication #mifepristone asked #SCOTUS Saturday to immediately restore full access to the medication, putting the contentious issue of #abortion back before the justices in an #election year.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #health #medicine #AbortionIsHealthcare #WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #Republicans #ViolenceAgainstWomen
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"The Court’s abuses of power now extend to any laws that would limit their goal of remaking the country by corrupt means.
So it all comes back to Court reform. The toxins and bacteria of the Court’s corruption spread into every tissue of American life."
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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Gene Weingarten notes that historians consider the Taney court the worst Supreme Court in US history. But:
"Now consider the John Roberts court. It is politically fractured. It has dispensed hell from day one, almost unfailingly enforcing a right-wing activist political agenda. It is absurdly partisan and morally corrupt."
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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Is This The Worst Supreme Court Ever?
Historians and legal experts are pretty much in agreement that the worst U.S.gene weingarten (The Gene Pool)
"It has ushered in a nearly constant descent into our darker past. ...
No Supreme Court in history has been so blatantly morally compromised — this is the first ones whose actions were stinky enough to lead to Congress creating a code of conduct for them."
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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"In effect this is the first time that a Supreme Court — the ultimate authority on what constitutes proper, legal, ethical conduct — required a nanny to police their own selves. Primly, deferentially, the code was declared 'voluntary' and 'non-binding.'"
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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"Much of this court’s corruption involves judges accepting favors and gifts from wealthy benefactors with matters that did — or might — come before them. This is a court that, it would seem, can be bought."
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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"This court has been a shameful court ... I used to argue before the Supreme Court and I read the opinion. It's shit. I mean, it's just bullshit. The whole thing is bullshit. …It is all politics and it is all — this notion of neutral justice is now,
for everybody to see, absolute bullshit."
~ Robert Reich
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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Is This the Shittiest Supreme Court in History? | The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, May 2, 2026
With Heather Lofthouse and Yours Truly, Robert Reich (and special guest Ben McKenzie)Robert Reich
"Whatever we call it—Jim Crow 2.0, the John Roberts Jim Crow Era, or the John Crow Era—no person in America is more responsible for the return to the Jim Crow Era than John Roberts. The resurrection of the post-Civil War Jim Crow brand of racism is the crowning achievement of John Roberts’ life work" (continued in /9)
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais
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Noting "Sam Alito’s corruption-drenched decision gutting the remains of the Voting Rights Act," Josh Marshall says,
"The corrupt majority has now doubled down not simply on the non-reviewability of gerrymandering but gerrymandering as a critical and fundamental right of states."
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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The Court’s Corruption Seeps Into Every Tissue of American Life
We’re talking a lot today about gerrymandering and Court reform. I want to note one among many ways the two issues intersect. Democrats are consistent on…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
"For all the effort that Supreme Court justices put into insisting they are not 'partisan hacks,' when the Court resolves awful democracy cases, elected Republicans have remarkably little trouble understanding what they are supposed to do, and how quickly they are supposed to act."
~ Jay Willis
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
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The Republican Justices Want to Help Republican Politicians Win Elections
The Supreme Court just issued a decision making it easier for lawmakers to racially gerrymander their states. Republicans are already racing to take advantage.Jay Willis (Balls & Strikes)
"Mr. Trump didn't just happen to America. He was elected, twice – the second time after attempting a coup. That alone should tell us that something fundamental has changed in American society, that it is so broken that one half of it could knowingly put a degenerate lunatic in the White House just to spite the other half."
~ Andrew Coyne
#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #cruelty #immigrants
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Trump may be temporary. The damage he is doing isn’t
We don’t need to close off our trade and relationship with the U.S., but we do need to open up to the rest of the worldAndrew Coyne (The Globe and Mail)
