Did we not have an election in NC with a map that was ruled unconstitutional?
I harbor no illusions of the RW quietly acquiescing their lost hegemony…
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No I don’t either which is why it’s good the maps are subject to scrutiny and court orders.
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First, in this case the courts don’t “dismiss” the case since it’s the ACLU who filed it so slapping down the DOJ by dismissing the suit is actually award them.
But more importantly, far too much is made of the participation of the DOJ in various lawsuits. Sure, they can bring resources to bear on one side or the other, but federal judges are not that impressed with the titles of the lawyers when their arguments are no good. With the ACLU, I’d say the lawyering is about even with the DOJ, and without career people writing the briefs and constructing the arguments on the DOJ side, it’s not even a fair fight. Political arguments designed to placate a political base go NOWHERE with impartial federal appellate judges. (That’s one reason the Right wants to flood the courts with judges biased toward their political arguments.)
The new DOJ central premise is that voter purging is necessary to combat potential voter fraud, but since they can’t demonstrate any actual voter fraud, and that is just one way voter fraud could happen, the importance placed on voter purges looks like a rather obvious pretext for something else.
If I’m arguing for the ACLU, I’d pose the real-life hypothetical of wealthy people (i.e., mostly white and Republican) with property in more than one county or state and the potential for them registering and voting in multiple jurisdictions with nobody knowing the difference. That example is pretty much check and mate on the new DOJ (and Ohio) position.
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Chris Hayes broke it down last night regarding the Senate. Dems/Ind defend 25 seats. If they won every seat in a state Hillary won, and every seat in a state Trump won by 3% points or less, they would still lose 5 seats. They have to run the table just to maintain the current deficit.
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'zackly…
The Dems have been a day late and and a dollar short since 2010… Not to mention, very unlucky…
“Forgot to add that by 2024 I would not be surprised if the R’s win the right to call a Constitutional Convention…”
And that is a scary fucking prospect. 
Even worse than Tom Brady saying he’ll play ten more years. Not by much, though.
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For those wondering how in the hell the GOP can stick with Trump look no further than the 2018 midterms. Trump will be poised to turn a typical Presidency on its head, having more success in the final two years than the two preceding them. A filibuster proof Senate with a House majority. All he has to do is limp to January 2019 and the real mayhem can start.
There’s more of this kind of activity taking place than what we ever hear about. Too much attention to every Russian investigation hiccup and Trump twitter-storm, and not enough to what the functioning parts of government are doing to undercut progressive advancements that took years to finally get in place.
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But they could do all that and much more with f’ing Pence as (shudder) President. I don’t know why they haven’t thrown Trump out already, they could do a LOT of damage w/o all the Trump BS.
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You can kick all the progressive works to the curb, that shit has be set alight and is burning hot. Soon it’ll be 1955 all over again, and will stay that way for a generation or two. We really need millions of brown and black people to come here or procreate in vast numbers, along with a serious dying off of the Caucasian race.
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