Posts Made By: James Brown

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

So, the POTUS must be handled? Not the best endorsement for his competence.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"Chalk up one for the “system”."

"Most say Supreme Court avoids anti-Trump rulings"

"The Marquette School of Law national poll released Thursday found that 57 percent of respondents said the high court is sparing Trump from orders that strike his agenda; the same results were recorded in a January survey."

"A majority of Democrats, 79 percent, agreed with the sentiment that the Supreme Court avoids adverse Trump rulings, and 66 percent of independents said they feel the same, according to the poll."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5845125-supreme-court-ruling-trump-tariffs/

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Karl Rove, aka "Bush's brain", on three Democrats as he sees as winners in the 2028 presidential election: glad to see Andy Beshear is one of 'em:  https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5845302-democrats-winning-formula-rove/

IMO, Beshear has the best shot and will likely win it if the progressive Democrats in the party don't screw it up...

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"The Bureau of Economic Analysis released data on the national debt reaching 100.2 percent of GDP on Thursday, noting that debt held by the public on March 31 was $31.27 trillion. GDP over the last year was $31.22 trillion."

"Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said the borrowing did not come from “a seismic global conflict, but rather a total bipartisan abdication of making hard choices.” 

“It’s happened — the national debt is now larger than the U.S. economy, about twice the historic average,” she said in a statement reacting to the news."


https://thehill.com/business/5857998-us-national-debt-gdp/

I saw a poll the other week on cable news that Republicans still have a 1 point lead over Democrats as being better stewards of the economy. Last I looked they control the house, senate and the WH. Must be Biden's fault, huh?....

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"In a 6-3 ruling on Wednesday powered by its conservative justices, the court gutted what scholars said was the last remaining pillar of the landmark law enacted after the "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, Alabama with the aim of ‌preventing racial discrimination in voting."

"The decision, which blocked an electoral map that had given Louisiana a second Black-majority U.S. House of Representatives district, will make it harder for minorities to challenge electoral maps as racially discriminatory under the landmark civil rights law."

"The ruling was issued with congressional elections looming in November, as President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans fight to maintain control of both the House and Senate. Trump hailed Wednesday's ruling and said he thinks Republican-led states would now want to reconfigure their voting maps."

"Supporters of the ruling, including John Yoo, who served as a Justice Department lawyer under Republican President George W. Bush, said it "continues the court's ⁠campaign to ensure that the government obeys a color-blind Constitution."

"The ruling was authored by Justice Samuel Alito and joined by Roberts and the four other conservative justices. It said the focus of Section 2 must center on the Constitution's prohibition on intentional racial discrimination under its 15th Amendment."

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-under-roberts-takes-wrecking-ball-voting-rights-act-2026-04-30/

Gotta ensure the rights of all those poorly treated and discriminated against white people...

Originally Posted by James Brown

Gutted?   Can you explain to me why the voting rights act requires majority minority districts? A good place to start would be reading the voting rights act.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

The perspective of those who are affected by it:     https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-act-black-americans-political-representation-a4eeb2367a33d99a54fa1d3cd36bdbf7

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Really!? That's your response? Take the case presently in question in Louisiana wherein a majority of black voters will have their democratically elected representative, currently two and likely reduced to one or even more likely, none, and removed via Republican action so that all of them will have no choice but to have their voting bloc represented by white Republicans. That's the story in much of the deep south, too.  Oh, sure, they can still vote...without the hope or possibility that the representative who is elected will represent them in the first place...

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

It's about time all these districts should be ruled by Republicans, don't ya think?!

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Lol! Er, ah, the redistricting measure in California was passed by the voters actually voting on it, unlike those in the Republican states who enacted it after a call from Trump, and without any approval from the voters to do so. Virginia's voter-approved redistricting measure was overruled by their state supreme court on a "procedural" technicality by a 4-3 vote. Republican states don't even get the chance to vote on it in the first place! 

You asked if I shed a tear over the California central valley farmers who, in your view, will be disportionately represented by Democrats instead of Republicans. No, I don't shed a tear about 'em for a couple of reasons: First, you apparently have it in your head that these are Ma & Pa farmers in overalls holding a pitchfork and a shovel as they till the land in an old tractor. The reality is these farming areas are being run by the big combines and corporate entities. Second, the voting rights act was enacted so african americans could actually vote and vote for the representation that they felt best represented their interests and that was based upon the reality that they couldn't vote at all and many of them in the red states couldn't do so until the 1970s. So your  argument about so-called rural farmers in central california being supposed victims in all of this is specious at best...