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The Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in two cases that could possibly end extreme partisan gerrymandering as we know it. @AriBerman outlined the stakes earlier. bit.ly/2JHTXAr
The conservative Supreme Court Justices, the ones that actually speak, seemed perturbed during today’s oral arguments against partisan gerrymandering. @AriBerman reports that what apparently upset them was the idea that everyone’s vote might count equally. bit.ly/2U0b4lG
(Clarence Thomas actually did speak up recently at the Supreme Court. First time in three years. He asked one entire question that actually made clear that he hadn’t been paying close enough attention to what was going on. I sincerely regret the omission.) nyti.ms/2UMRRQC
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Per a @MorningConsult poll, nearly half of the voting public views Christian nationalism as an important or critical threat to vital U.S. interests within the next 10 years. Nearly half of Republicans and white evangelicals, on the other hand, shrug at it. morningconsult.com/2019/04/02/rou…
Christian nationalism (47 percent) may not be considered as much of a threat as white nationalism (64 percent) to those polled. But sociologist Andrew Whitehead notes that the former is “related to conceptions about citizenship and American identity that are related to race.”
“Although Whitehead noted there is no raw data connecting white nationalism to Christian nationalism, he said the latter allows many whites who take up its cause to express anti-black prejudice, as well as other right-wing ideologies, without resorting to ‘radicalized language.’”
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Have we heard one word from Trump’s administration about this? Certainly nothing about any national emergency. (@govkristinoem declared a statewide one on March 15.) Remember, it isn’t about whether this is unsurprising. He remains @POTUS—and his silence is an abdication of duty.
This @MitchKSmith report on the flooding of South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is now a week old. There is surely updated information in local reports, but this gives you a baseline on the ongoing devastation. nyti.ms/2CCazDD
I am just now learning about Pine Ridge, and am lamenting that it took me this long to pay attention to its plight. I can only speak for myself in this regard, and quite often, people are suffering at epic proportions as I traffic in relative triviality. I’ll strive to do better.
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Says @PeteButtigieg in this interview, coastal folks “have trouble believing that Trump voters actually exist” and that those voters are “just human beings making choices on their situations, sometimes their biases and we need to talk through them.” Sigh. kqed.org/news/11729874/…
A few things on those @PeteButtigieg remarks. One, a lot of us “coastal elites” are Midwesterners like him. We know all too well that Trump voters exist. And more of them live out here than he seems to realize. America doesn’t fit so snugly into a soundbite as he might like.
Two, @PeteButtigieg attempts to exchange one stereotype for another. This, of course, is impossible; he manages to mischaracterize Trump voters, as well, letting them off the hook for putting in place the most dangerously ignorant chief executive this nation has maybe ever seen.
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(Thread) A few words on Gamble v. US (the double jeopardy case before the Supreme Court that people think is about the presidential pardon powers).

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So, there’s a 300 page opinion by a 3 judge panel regarding NC’s partisan gerrymandering. Guess I know what I’m doing after dinner tonight. #ncpol #ncga redistricting.lls.edu/files/NC%20cc%…
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