Good luck with that gambit, orange legal team.
NOTE: The ongoing effort to delay court review of the administration (Wilbur Ross) attempt to add a citizenship question to the census questionnaire for 2020 is the same tactic used repeatedly by the GOP in gerrymandering cases.
Take NC as a prime example…the courts have FOUR TIMES now ruled that the Congressional district maps drawn by the GOP controlled legislature violate the law and have ordered them to draw replacements. Each time the GOP responds with replacements that are defiantly similarly flawed in their favor and then engage in protracted legal battles that enable them to keep using the bad maps while a solution is sought. This last time around, they were able to protract the battle long enough that the courts were forced to hold the 2018 mid terms using the latest flawed maps because “there was not enough time to order new ones without confusing the voters.” For the GOP…that is a victory.
The long term solution and one steadily gaining ground nationwide (with recent referendum wins in MI, CO, Missouri and UT) is formation of independent commissions to handle the task of drawing these maps instead of biased political leaders in state legislators. Here in PA, the State Supreme Court had to redraw its own maps for Congressional districts when the GOP failed to produce a version that didn’t repeat the violations that caused the Court to step in. The end result…the new PA Congressional delegation is now 9-9. It was 13-5 GOP. The struggle to change the state’s system for drawing state House and Senate districts continues, but requires a Constitutional amendment. That makes it a very heavy lift, but the battle goes on, with 64% of Pennsylvanian’s in favor of reform, backed by nearly 60,000 statewide petition signatures and growing. Dem. Governor Tom Wolf has formed a Redistricting Commission to study the issue and make recommendations. The GOP leadership (OMG) immediately attacked the move and said it was unnecessary.
So.Much.Obstruction.
“Obstruction of Justice, Incorporated,” a wholly owned subsidiary of The Trump Organization
Fucking crook and liar.
Yes. But note that the PA independent districting commission still came up with a map that strongly favors the GOP. Dems won the PA congressional House votes 55-45, an absolute blowout–and still only tied 9-9.
We can’t let years of being screwed to allow to settle for a merely lightly gerrymandered map.
Seems like Mohammad Bin Moron Al Fatfuk is closely related to Fuckface Von Clownface.
I see the resemblances.
Now that you mention it…
Dear Ivanka:
Pls email your father that only the guilty and truly weak people are afraid of the truth.
I’m lovin’ the new name. 
Probably easier to change the rules like I believe they are trying to do in Michigan, stripping power away from the governor and the SoS since they’ll be in office when redistricting happens.
Dumb question from yours truly: why is the Justice Department advocating on behalf of Trump in this case? Depending how you slice it, the complaint is either against him personally (in which case private lawyers, or Trump org lawyers, should be doing the representin’), or against the office of the president (in which case it should be the White House counsel).
Does anything involving a constitutional challenge to the office automatically go to the Justice Department? I’m genuinely unclear on this – any help is appreciated
edited to add: nope, it’s exactly as weird as it looks. @ncsteve . edited again to add: so I guess this does fall into Justice’s lap. But still so, so, so weird
Excellent summary - thank you. The point you made about delaying justice until after the election being a GOP victory is one that has been gnawing at me for several years now as we see it repeated over and over across the country, most recently and egregiously in Georgia.
Perfect name
I’m so old, I can remember when Republicans used to shout, “If you haven’t done anything wrong, then you’ve got nothing to worry about!”
Those were the days…
Why is the DoJ defending Trump in this emoluments case (if I read this correctly)? Shouldn’t he be required to have his own defense?
Nice to have our Justice Department as legal butt boys for the President’s (sic.) private business interests.