BTC talks with attorney Mark Elias about the the lawsuit in Florida winning against the unconstitutional Republican gerrymandering that demolished a black majority district, and lawsuits in other states against Republican gerrymandering. Mr. Elias is a real hero for taking on the unconstitutional power grabbing the Republicans have been doing in order to deny minority
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After the 2020 election all these restrictions started being passed by the mostly Republican legislatures. What has happened in the last few years? Haven’t they been challenged in courts and found to be a violation of free speech? All these ‘agenda’ laws got passed and analysis shows that they don’t meet the criteria of serving
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My interpretation of his discussion is that Trump and the rest of the Republican party who have supported him have ripped apart the fabric of American Democracy and it will never be repaired. This 12 minute interview by Judy Woodruff is to me an exceedingly important assessment of the horrible state of American democracy –
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BTC recaps Trump’s violation of the judge’s pretrial orders. 8 min video, some of Glen Kirschner’s information. 😡👍👍
It’s hilarious that Giuliani just tries to accuse the indictment of prosecuting Trump for free speech when page 2 says Trump has the right to exercise his (false) free speech, but he is being prosecuted for that which he did when he went *beyond* his free speech rights. So Giuliani is blowing hot air. An
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This article cites, as an example, Judge Kacsmaryk and mifepristone to end pregnancy. Quote: “”This letter is a part of Democrats’ ongoing efforts to pursue multi-faceted judicial reform that predates the recent scandals and misconduct at the U.S. Supreme Court, which has the public doubting the impartiality of courts.”” Senate Democrats Send Letter to Federal
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The number of restrictive voting laws and Federal lawsuits challenging them has grown to a precipitous number. These Red state legislatures and governors are attempting to trample all over voters’ rights. It’s obvious that the intents of these laws are *not* to “reduce voter fraud” but to make it more difficult for voters, especially minorities,
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This is 4 min. YouTube video. SCERT Bill passed the Senate. Sen. Whitehouse said that the Republicans claimed that the Democrats are going to try to pack the Supreme Court. But in his opinion, the Republicans have already packed the Supreme Court! Whitehouse quote: Instead, amidst the usual cascade of smears and innuendo, and unfounded
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After 9:40 he says “…the idea that the people choose their elected representatives rather than the other way around.” Partisan Gerrymandering is taking place in states and the court, as he says, is okay with that. He brings up section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was not invalidated by SCOTUS. SCOTUS invalidated some sections
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Very Interesting. “”In the [Supreme] court that dark money built, the honor system has flagrantly failed. We need to legislate; we need to investigate and we need to fix this mess, for the American people.””
