BREAKING: a second lawsuit is filed against SB 202, Georgia's new voting law. Georgia NAACP & other orgs allege purposeful discrimination in addition to harmful effects under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the 1st, 14th and 15th amendments.
There are three main headwinds: 1. a kneecapped Voting Rights Act w/ a vestigial Section 5 as a result of the Shelby County decision in 2013
2. Uncertainty over the meaning of section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the remaining teeth in the law which could be knocked out or filed down by a pending case that SCOTUS is set to decide in the coming months.
NEW: a third lawsuit against Georgia's voting law brought by the NAACP-LDF, ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center emphasizes the harms to *all* voters in addition to the discriminatory effects and purposes against people of colour.
The thing is, claiming someone is in cahoots with Venezuelan dictators is not “vituperative or abusive“ like calling someone a yellow-bellied scoundrel. It’s a highly specific defamatory factual claim.
Fox’s attorney, Paul Clement, all but threw Sidney Powell et al under the bus in his motion to dismiss the defamation suit against Fox.
Two weeks after our 13-y-o started feeling crummy, some guidance & reflections on quarantining with a teenager diagnosed with covid-19.
It started as a minor headache on Feb. 28, three days after her middle school re-opened. She felt worse at school the next day and skipped gymnastics in the afternoon. We got her a rapid test. It was positive.
Mobilizing to care for her while shielding big sister, little sister and my wife, got some mixed msgs. Pediatrician and our primary care doc gave different instructions. We sided with the more conservative 14 days of isolation for her and 10 days quarantine for the other gals.