I am expecting the Supreme Court to overrule the Alabama decision, after the election, throwing the results in the trash, with a second round primary, a couple months before the general election, just to burn the Purcell Principle completely to the ground.
Ta, Gary. I'm glad Elder Sister is not alive to witness what her Steinert HS alumnus has wrought. Of course, she went to community college while "Sammy" went to Princeton. RIP, Elder Sis.
Alito has an ancient Roman Clock face tattooed around his private parts. He lies on the ground and "thinks about Jean Harlow very hard", and by the shadow cast, tells the time with "remarkable accuracy".
I like to think the district courts "reconsider" amounted to the judges sitting down and one of them saying "So. Y'all agree this is SOME SHIT, right?" and the others nodding.
SCOTUS tried to hand Alabama a racist map-shaped permission slip, and a lower court with two Trump appointees basically said, “No thank you, your honor, we read your own rules.” That is the delicious part. The Supreme Court keeps inventing legal yoga poses to protect voter suppression, then gets offended when someone remembers the Purcell Principle is supposed to mean something other than “whatever helps Republicans today.” Alabama still wants the discrimination buffet, South Carolina briefly found a conscience or at least a calendar, and somewhere Sam Alito is staring sadly into a casserole. Tiny mercy, but mercy nonetheless.
There are other, unspoken reasons for declining to gerrymander further in South Carolina. First and foremost, there's the very real danger of a dummymander. Things already look dire for Republicans, and also look likely to get still worse. Also, it's not common knowledge, but S.C. cities are growing pretty fast, and the state is actually, if only gradually, losing it's long-standing reactionary slaveocracy reputation and looks more like Georgia every year.
Also, they would have to re-do their primaries, and Trump has already demonstrated that he does not consider sitting Republican legislators in Texas to be sufficiently loyal. Which is madness, but there you are. There's no predicting what fuckery he might get up to in South Carolina's primary if given the opportunity.
Beloved husband and I honeymooned on the Outer Banks, because I'd never been. We could hear the surf from the bedroom window, but that was because of Hurricane Ernesto. Someone from the county came to look at the property while we were there; apparently the owners wanted to add another story. If they did, they ruined a perfectly lovely honeymoon cottage and created another OBX party house, one of which fell into the sea (not very near us) while we were there.
"Did the justices not believe their own conclusion that the issue in Callais had nothing to do with the issue in Allen?" No, they intend to use the Allen case, when it returns, to also eliminate the 14th Amendment argument as well. Even Alina Habadabadoo could see this coming.
I am expecting the Supreme Court to overrule the Alabama decision, after the election, throwing the results in the trash, with a second round primary, a couple months before the general election, just to burn the Purcell Principle completely to the ground.
Republicans keep painting themselves into a corner then walking over the wet paint to get out.
"Inveniendi cacas" broke the internet.
Ta, Gary. I'm glad Elder Sister is not alive to witness what her Steinert HS alumnus has wrought. Of course, she went to community college while "Sammy" went to Princeton. RIP, Elder Sis.
WHAT'S UNDER THE ROBE?
Alito has an ancient Roman Clock face tattooed around his private parts. He lies on the ground and "thinks about Jean Harlow very hard", and by the shadow cast, tells the time with "remarkable accuracy".
His particular dimensions allow a precision of +/- 2 minutes.
Clueless, classless criminals. But they wear black robes, so 🤷🏻♂️
FML!
Inveniendi cacas, you scamp.
I had to look that up, since IANAL.
How we know it’s Gary’s writing: “fuck all the way off” is his idea of profanity. Here. At Wonkette.
[Gary coquettishly flashes a daring glimpse of ankle as he steps out of the carriage.]
Anything goes in these here parts of the internet.
It's fun that the Purcell Principle is basically the "I know you're racist, but what am I?" precedent.
I'm sure Clarence Thomas would be perfectly happy with a 'redistricting' of the US Supreme Court that would remove his right to vote.
Damn, I wish I'd come up with that myself. Nicely done.
And a SCOTUS ruling that would invalidate his marriage. Miscegenation, Mein Gott in Himmel!
I like to think the district courts "reconsider" amounted to the judges sitting down and one of them saying "So. Y'all agree this is SOME SHIT, right?" and the others nodding.
SCOTUS tried to hand Alabama a racist map-shaped permission slip, and a lower court with two Trump appointees basically said, “No thank you, your honor, we read your own rules.” That is the delicious part. The Supreme Court keeps inventing legal yoga poses to protect voter suppression, then gets offended when someone remembers the Purcell Principle is supposed to mean something other than “whatever helps Republicans today.” Alabama still wants the discrimination buffet, South Carolina briefly found a conscience or at least a calendar, and somewhere Sam Alito is staring sadly into a casserole. Tiny mercy, but mercy nonetheless.
Hope she put green peppers into the sauce.
There are other, unspoken reasons for declining to gerrymander further in South Carolina. First and foremost, there's the very real danger of a dummymander. Things already look dire for Republicans, and also look likely to get still worse. Also, it's not common knowledge, but S.C. cities are growing pretty fast, and the state is actually, if only gradually, losing it's long-standing reactionary slaveocracy reputation and looks more like Georgia every year.
Also, they would have to re-do their primaries, and Trump has already demonstrated that he does not consider sitting Republican legislators in Texas to be sufficiently loyal. Which is madness, but there you are. There's no predicting what fuckery he might get up to in South Carolina's primary if given the opportunity.
I know a lot of people from up north are retiring there.
I hadn't considered SC becoming more like Georgia; that makes sense.
While NC seems to be going the opposite way, at least in some areas?
My ex and I went to Charleston for our honeymoon. We got up to a lot of f****** in South Carolina.
Beloved husband and I honeymooned on the Outer Banks, because I'd never been. We could hear the surf from the bedroom window, but that was because of Hurricane Ernesto. Someone from the county came to look at the property while we were there; apparently the owners wanted to add another story. If they did, they ruined a perfectly lovely honeymoon cottage and created another OBX party house, one of which fell into the sea (not very near us) while we were there.
😉🫶❤️
Kelly Loeffler now slurping a knob at the Cabinet meeting. She's found $200 billion in SBA loans!
"Did the justices not believe their own conclusion that the issue in Callais had nothing to do with the issue in Allen?" No, they intend to use the Allen case, when it returns, to also eliminate the 14th Amendment argument as well. Even Alina Habadabadoo could see this coming.
Wouldn’t surprise me is the Supreme Court went ahead and somehow ruled that South Carolina has to change its maps anyway