Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University.
Kim Lane Scheppele
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In fact, the only way to win a constitutional claim against racial gerrymandering is if the the state was doing it to comply with the Voting Rights Act.
Once the US government starts violating court orders, everyone else thinks they can too . . . here is former-Israeli now-US spyware Pegasus infiltrating WhatsApp, again.
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The @standupforscience.net emergency event on the proposed OMB regulations is now available on YouTube.
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Trump already did this in the last months of his first term and this has been a major focus of Project 2025 and Russ Vought, as @donmoyn.bsky.social has warned for years.
Don't be fooled by the smaller number. Trump 2.0 went for quality over quantity, targeting the most senior civil servants.
Seems like a bait and switch. After predictable outcry, Trump DOJ pulls back slush fund for insurrectionists, but retains tax immunity for Trump. Was that the plan all along? It’s all corrupt.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/u...
effectively the court is saying that there is no such thing as racial polarization, only party polarization. or at least, there is no such thing as racial polarization when to say otherwise would be to potentially benefit the democratic party.
Entrenched corruption under former Hungarian leader Viktor Orban likely cost Hungary about 60 trillion forint ($194 billion) over the past 16 years, according to the head of the country’s anti-graft a...
Only loyalists need to apply. This one move will forever change the civil service in America. "Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that wipes away civil service protections from roughly 8,000 high-level federal workers by making them at-will employees." www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/p...
How the long road from 9/11 led us towards authoritarism: www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that wipes away civil service protections from roughly 8,000 high-level federal workers by making them at-will employees.
The road from 9/11 leads directly to January 6th, writes Rosa Brooks
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Barb McQuade
jamelle
Completely agree with @rickhasen.bsky.social. After tonight’s decision, it isn’t just impossible to win a Voting Rights Act claim—it’s also impossible to win a *constitutional* claim against egregiously racist gerrymandering. The supermajority massively expanded Callais. electionlawblog.org?p=156541
Cas Mudde
Social Media Lab
Rosa Brooks
It gets a little more wild each time they say it.
So if every single Black person votes one way, and every single white person votes the opposite way, every election, that's not even RELEVANT to whether voting is "racially polarized"—as long as this durable disagreement is organized into 'parties.'
