South Carolina Senate Republicans became the first to buck President Trump’s demand for a post-Callais redraw Tuesday, sinking the amendment that would have tacked redistricting on after the official end of the legislative term.
Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey (R) gave a floor speech arguing against a redraw on both political — it might endanger Republican seats — and moral — it’s an abuse of power against the minority — grounds. He said that he’d spoken to Trump, but still opposed the effort. Four Republicans joined his lead in the vote held soon after.
Elsewhere, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) set a new August primary election date after the Supreme Court lifted a stay on a 2023 map. But that map is not totally in the clear yet — the panel of judges that previously blocked it after finding it to be racially discriminatory it will get another chance to weigh in, and has set a lightning-fast briefing schedule to do so.
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I hope when the Democrats win in November they enact an new Civil Rights bill for the entire nation.
The presence of a single non-white person (excepting the handful of self-hating tokens) in the halls of Congress is an existential crisis for these bigoted scumbags. Next up: the authors of the 19th amendment clearly intended it to bar women from voting for or holding public office.
An Appeal to Heaven, perhaps.
How are all these States going to pay for these additional elections and redistricting efforts?
Raise taxes?
Cut funding for Public Schools?
Never mind…
Well, they’ll have to be creative, and perhaps look to the past.
Perhaps a small fee to fund the God-given right to cast a vote? As a measure of freedom, of course. What righteous American could be against that?