Breaking: As Biden speaks NC state court upholds extreme gerrymandered maps, including US House map giving GOP 71-78% of seats in state Trump won with 49.9% of vote. This is exactly the kind of partisan & racial gerrymandering Freedom to Vote Act would block
Here is ruling by panel of majority GOP judges upholding gerrymandered legislative maps in NC. It will be appealed to NC Supreme Court, but underscores need for urgent federal action on voting rights southerncoalition.org/wp-content/upl…
"The stakes couldn’t be higher: if Democrats don’t pass these voting rights bills soon, the 2022 election will take place under wave of new voting restrictions, extreme gerrymandered maps & election subversion laws" motherjones.com/politics/2022/…
@AriBerman I strongly recommend all an old great talk from Joe Biden on the government paralysis, and the government inaction. c-span.org/video/?112688-…
@AriBerman Stop it! Stop acting as if it's the Democrats' responsibility to overcome Republican blocks while letting the Republicans off the hook for blocking us.
@AriBerman And the US will slip further down the list of confirmed solid democracies in the world. We are already considered a hybrid nation of autocracy/democracy.
@AriBerman I have lost faith in the Democrats' abilities to pass these voting rights bills. I don't think it's going to happen, and I think the results are going to be disastrous. I really, really hope I'm wrong.
@AriBerman @John_Friedman If they do pass it can Republican states file law suits to tie it up in court before it’s able to be implemented for the election?