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Cont: The Biden Presidency Part II

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Depressing to imagine if, after the Trump cluster ****, Biden truly just happened to be the most "electable" candidate in 2020 and the least likely to be re-elected or help a Democrat win 2024.
 
To poke at a couple things...

Biden makes another payment on his pledge to be the most pro-union president ever

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President Joe Biden is taking nearly 70 new steps to live up to his pledge to be the most pro-union president in U.S. history. Biden has said he will adopt the recommendations of a task force on worker organizing and empowerment formed last April. The task force is chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris and vice-chaired by Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh.
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Florida State Attorney launches probe as elderly Dem voters say party affiliations switched to GOP

When a guy in a red hat arrives to knock on the doors of senior citizens in Miami-Dade County, Florida, living in a low-income building, suspicions are rightly raised. Fast forward to months later, when an 84-year-old grandmother’s voter registration card arrived in the mail to show that her lifelong affiliation to the Democratic party had been changed to Republican.

Juan Carlos Salazar, 77, a Dominican living in Little Havana, and registered Democratic voter since the ‘70s, tells the Orlando Sentinel, that in December he was confronted by a group of three canvassers wearing red hats and t-shirts that read “Republican Party of Florida.” They asked if he wanted to fill out an application to get a new voter ID. He says, he “didn’t do anything,” but that he realized his party had been changed to Republican when he received his new registration in the mail.

“This is a system to eliminate voters so that voters can’t participate in the primary,” Salazar said in an interview with the Miami Herald in front of Haley Sofge Towers, the public housing building he’s lived in for the past five years. “It concerns me about what’s going to happen in these next elections ... This is a scam.”

Now, Democratic State Attorney for Miami-Dade County, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, is promising to investigate allegations of voter fraud, announcing a new initiative that includes a voter protection hotline and task force.
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*sigh*
 
I honestly think those individuals may be cannon fodder in an effort to justify disrupting legitimate get-out-the-vote efforts.
 
Breaking: SCOTUS strikes another huge blow to voting rights — and the media is helping normalize it

The far-right supermajority on the Supreme Court further hollowed out the desiccated husk of the Voting Rights Act on Monday, overturning a lower court decision to stay Alabama’s gerrymandered Congressional map.

The 5-4 decision reinstates a map that gives Republicans a 7-1 advantage and dilutes the power of Black voters in a state with a population that is 27% African American. It is a decision so extreme that Chief Justice John Roberts, the author of the decision in Shelby v. Holder that began the all-out assault on the VRA, joined the four liberals in dissent.

His opinion in that 2013 case left intact the VRA’s Section 2 clause that banned openly racist discrimination in voting laws, which today’s decision all but defenestrates for the time being.

To do so, they made up several legal principles and fully twisted several others, which allowed them to sanction a map that looks like the one pictured to the right.
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The map, of course, pretty well demonstrates cracking and packing.
 
Very consistent court: always give states maximum powers. In fact, the federal law is merely a suggestion. if the state law is different, favor that.
 
It can be noted that at least ostensibly the decision is not on the merits of the case, only to choose not to intervene before a full hearing.

I think it's a significant error myself, but what I mean to say is it's not settled.
 
gnome said:
It can be noted that at least ostensibly the decision is not on the merits of the case, only to choose not to intervene before a full hearing.

I think it's a significant error myself, but what I mean to say is it's not settled.
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Hmmm... how does the timing work though?

The midterms are coming up... was the new map supposed to apply to the 2022 elections? If so, and if the supreme court eventually rules the gerrymandering is illegal, would they have time to re-instate alternate maps? Or could we be in a case where they say "gerrymandering is bad... but we have to let this case stand because there isn't time to change it"?
 
Aridas said:
Breaking: SCOTUS strikes another huge blow to voting rights — and the media is helping normalize it

The 5-4 decision reinstates a map that gives Republicans a 7-1 advantage and dilutes the power of Black voters in a state with a population that is 27% African American. It is a decision so extreme that Chief Justice John Roberts, the author of the decision in Shelby v. Holder that began the all-out assault on the VRA, joined the four liberals in dissent..
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Ah, poor John Roberts... wants to pretend that the supreme court is some sort of institution deserving of respect. But thanks in part to him, its now it is extremely partisan, and he is seeing perhaps the collapse of the U.S., due (in part) to his own actions in the past.
 
Segnosaur said:
Ah, poor John Roberts... wants to pretend that the supreme court is some sort of institution deserving of respect. But thanks in part to him, its now it is extremely partisan, and he is seeing perhaps the collapse of the U.S., due (in part) to his own actions in the past.
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Every warning that Obama and other Democrats sounded due to decisions of his courts were dismissed as hyperbolic and false. The only reason more Republicans aren't dissenting is because they don't care, they only want power and wouldn't mind a Republican dictatorship.
 
Segnosaur said:
Hmmm... how does the timing work though?

The midterms are coming up... was the new map supposed to apply to the 2022 elections? If so, and if the supreme court eventually rules the gerrymandering is illegal, would they have time to re-instate alternate maps? Or could we be in a case where they say "gerrymandering is bad... but we have to let this case stand because there isn't time to change it"?
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Perhaps more directly said, it looks like a lower court put a hold of the change to this new badly gerrymandered map and the SC pointedly lifted the hold, which means that it simply will apply to the 2022 elections. It would *quite* surprise me if it wended its way through the courts in time for a rejection to be meaningful.
 
Segnosaur said:
Ah, poor John Roberts... wants to pretend that the supreme court is some sort of institution deserving of respect. But thanks in part to him, its now it is extremely partisan, and he is seeing perhaps the collapse of the U.S., due (in part) to his own actions in the past.
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John Roberts' game was quite simple. Push the Court as far to the right as possible without triggering an Article II, Section 2 backlash by pretending to be moderate and reasonable. Now that there are five conservative Justices on the Court who don't care about a backlash, Roberts has nowhere to hide.
 
Random said:
John Roberts' game was quite simple. Push the Court as far to the right as possible without triggering an Article II, Section 2 backlash by pretending to be moderate and reasonable. Now that there are five conservative Justices on the Court who don't care about a backlash, Roberts has nowhere to hide.
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Exactly. Republicans used to hide their racism prior to Trump. Now they don't care, they are openly racist while claiming their racist actions/words aren't racist. They know they aren't fooling anyone, but have no shame.
 
Aridas said:
Perhaps more directly said, it looks like a lower court put a hold of the change to this new badly gerrymandered map and the SC pointedly lifted the hold, which means that it simply will apply to the 2022 elections. It would *quite* surprise me if it wended its way through the courts in time for a rejection to be meaningful.
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Ohh that's an old pattern I've seen many times before. It finally reaches court AFTER the election, the courtroom says, "Okay that was bad. Don't do it again." repeat multiple times.
 
Segnosaur said:
Ah, poor John Roberts... wants to pretend that the supreme court is some sort of institution deserving of respect. But thanks in part to him, its now it is extremely partisan, and he is seeing perhaps the collapse of the U.S., due (in part) to his own actions in the past.
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Why do you think it is partisan and not simply that Republicans found judges with legal views aligned with republican views?
 
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