We Are Going To Talk About It (But There Is Also Good News and No I Can Barely Believe It Either) - Saturday Night OT

 

we can outwork them - we can outsmart them - we will have to FOCUS

and we have to NOT TELL THEM till we're done

and we can't sit down in the middle and relax until it's done 

(some progressives are notorious for that)

but it can be done and we will do it 

Ali Velshi has the contextual history and compares it to the first NADIR, as well as why it’s called that 

Elie and Dean are both attorneys

They will tell everyone both why Alito’s argument is crap AND how Congressional (and White House) Democrats enabled the creature to be Frankensteined

They will also talk about the necessary strategy to get the country back in 2029 to where it should and could have been in 2021 had someone with more muscle than anyone blue was willing to exert in the Senate or White House at the time to bend Manchinema’s arms to forego the filibuster so the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would’ve outlawed gerrymandering for everyone and had already passed the House TWICE, could pass the Senate w/a simple majority

 

 

I’m not going to dwell on the glaring internal logical inconsistencies in that mess Alito vomited up – I’m doing that Tetris for a longer piece (that maybe doesn’t go here unless people really want to see a draft) about how the ridiculous ruling is unconstitutional on its face according to even the SCOTUS6’s own rulings

 

where race according to them cannot be considered to correct for historical disadvantage in providing voting or educational opportunities … but it can TOTALLY be considered for a KKKavanaugh stop to racially profile and lock people up indefinitely in violation of their Constitutional rights

  

but here it is

 

Greg Sargent - formerly of WaPo when it was a respectable news outlet, now at New Republic -

has already done the math for everyone

https://newrepublic.com/article/209830/trump-supreme-court-gerrymandering-voting-rights

You want the highlights broken down by Congressional seats and state houses (who draw the maps to determine the Congressional seats)? Whole thread, please --

https://bsky.app/profile/gregsargent.bsky.social/post/3mkrxxsiyt22u

^^^ with particular attention to what he says about the state legislative chambers

 

 

we all find our states

we all gather our groups

and we all get to work

 

that’s it