Can all the winning candidates on the ballot (especially the Republican ones) file a friend of the court thingie about how this jackhole is fucking them up?
Ta, Marcie. We visited the Outer Banks of NC for our honeymoon. One of the homes we drove past a number of times had a sign, "I'm Voting for the Convicted Felon," and was flying an Israeli flag. I don't think that home was kosher.
As an NC resident, I won’t be surprised if this court hands him the “win” and sets off a chain reaction of wingnut vote purges everywhere. The GOP in this state are fucking shameless.
What if we give up on the vote tallies altogether? Just let whomever runs have the position, even if it means you've got a Dem, a Rep, and a Green all doing the same job. Surely it couldn't be any worse than what they are doing now. T-ball rules -- everyone is a winner.
This kind of total power grab is part of the standard issue playbook for unreconstructed states, and states that follow in their lead. Whatever happens, the party that serves the minorities the powerful in that state hate must not be allowed to hold power.
Indeed it was only by Mark Robinson being absolutely terrible that Democrats even had a chance.
Don't give the federal district court credit for protecting the interests of North Carolina voters.
It was the NC State Board of Elections, not Jefferson Griffin, who petitioned to have the case removed to federal courts -- the board argued that the issues Griffin raised implicated federal constitutional voting rights.
That Trump-appointed federal judge is the same one who, a few years back, opined that when Congress restored the privilege of Civil War insurrectionists to again hold offices under the United States, Congress had also pardoned all *future* American insurrectionists. Conveniently, the public official at the heart of the case was cousin-humping Trumpist Madison Cawthorn, who had spoken at the inciting rally that preceded the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress. (A Court of Appeals panel up in Richmond roundly and unanimously overturned that ruling.)
This time round, that same federal judge appears to again know what he is doing (politically) -- ruling that Griffin's case implicates only state election law. The judge helpfully got the federal judiciary out of the way and allowed Griffin to press his case to the state Supreme Court.
So, the suggestion in the otherwise fine article that Griffin somehow botched his filing with the federal court is erroneous.
If a plurality of the population can't be motivated to invest and fight for a better society, then we will not have a better society. Our freedoms and rights are being taken from us because they are just lying there on the figurative table, waiting for someone to take away.
Perhaps this will be a war we never win, and homicidal games shows become the biggest hits on all the streaming services . . .
Can all the winning candidates on the ballot (especially the Republican ones) file a friend of the court thingie about how this jackhole is fucking them up?
Ta, Marcie. We visited the Outer Banks of NC for our honeymoon. One of the homes we drove past a number of times had a sign, "I'm Voting for the Convicted Felon," and was flying an Israeli flag. I don't think that home was kosher.
As an NC resident, I won’t be surprised if this court hands him the “win” and sets off a chain reaction of wingnut vote purges everywhere. The GOP in this state are fucking shameless.
My bestie moved there. That's the very thing a whole lot of us are concerned about.
Where does all the money come from for these insane legal wranglings?
Fascist billionaire sociopaths, who also own most of our SCROTUS
It’s the pocket change of dark money zillionaires that don’t even live here.
In my mind I’m not going to Carolina.
I weep for Carolina.
It's not just the Carolinas we need to be worried about.
You know what copycats Heritage and the Confederates are.
If they find a voter suppression avenue that "works" they will copycat it in EVERY STATE THEY CAN.
You know that.
Whole lotta North Carolina-isms in this article! I approve!
Yet none about 'cue.
Because no one there calls it that. That's some sort of Texas nickname or something.
Yet, I live in NC. We do not call it BBQ, that's Texas. It's barbecue or just cue.
Gonna be a lot of wrinkly old Republicans among the people who were already registered and didn’t have to provide 4 digits of their social.
One more step to fascism, with the trappings of democracy, but without the ability to oust the ruling party from power via elections.
What if we give up on the vote tallies altogether? Just let whomever runs have the position, even if it means you've got a Dem, a Rep, and a Green all doing the same job. Surely it couldn't be any worse than what they are doing now. T-ball rules -- everyone is a winner.
Let them fight it out in the Octagon.
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Nice Times story!
Missing hiker found in national park in Australia
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ywy9xln2yo
He went on walkabout. Glad he's all right.
Election "Integrity" Network
For some reason I'm thinking about Inigo Montoya now. ( And no, I didn't kill his father. )
Yo, why'd you kill his father? Was that business or personal?
But are you still prepared to die?
(Ha ha only joke)
Well, Trump *IS* going to be President again, so...
Are you saying the six-fingered man is Donald Chump.
This kind of total power grab is part of the standard issue playbook for unreconstructed states, and states that follow in their lead. Whatever happens, the party that serves the minorities the powerful in that state hate must not be allowed to hold power.
Indeed it was only by Mark Robinson being absolutely terrible that Democrats even had a chance.
Of the people, by the people, for the people ... as long as it's the right people. Depressing.
Of the property-owning men.
In other words, white men.
The Klan without robes.
Don't give the federal district court credit for protecting the interests of North Carolina voters.
It was the NC State Board of Elections, not Jefferson Griffin, who petitioned to have the case removed to federal courts -- the board argued that the issues Griffin raised implicated federal constitutional voting rights.
That Trump-appointed federal judge is the same one who, a few years back, opined that when Congress restored the privilege of Civil War insurrectionists to again hold offices under the United States, Congress had also pardoned all *future* American insurrectionists. Conveniently, the public official at the heart of the case was cousin-humping Trumpist Madison Cawthorn, who had spoken at the inciting rally that preceded the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress. (A Court of Appeals panel up in Richmond roundly and unanimously overturned that ruling.)
This time round, that same federal judge appears to again know what he is doing (politically) -- ruling that Griffin's case implicates only state election law. The judge helpfully got the federal judiciary out of the way and allowed Griffin to press his case to the state Supreme Court.
So, the suggestion in the otherwise fine article that Griffin somehow botched his filing with the federal court is erroneous.
If a plurality of the population can't be motivated to invest and fight for a better society, then we will not have a better society. Our freedoms and rights are being taken from us because they are just lying there on the figurative table, waiting for someone to take away.
Perhaps this will be a war we never win, and homicidal games shows become the biggest hits on all the streaming services . . .
Pretty good summary of what Plato wrote, about that cave ... thingy.