On The Voter Front....

As we know, the voter fraud suppression commission established by popular vote loser and sociopath Donald "Rump" Trump has folded, after numerous lawsuits were brought against it and after meeting resistance from various Dem and Rethuglican Secretaries of State. The commission resulted from the convergence of Rump's pathological need to create "evidence" that he would have won the popular vote in 2016 (which he lost by 2.86 million votes) if not for fraud, and by scurrilous ongoing efforts by the Rethuglican apparatus to create barriers to voting by Democratic constituencies citing non-existent "voter fraud." It was announced today that the commission's voter records will be destroyed, and there were predictably no findings of voter fraud, after wasting taxpayer dollars.

In Federal Court, a panel of Federal judges ruled yesterday that North Carolina's Rethuglican state legislature violated the Constitution in redrawing its Congressional districts along starkly partisan lines to preserve its political advantage in Congress. North Carolina is divided closely between Dems and Rethugs, but the current Congressional map gives the Rethugs a 10 - 3 seat advantage. The Court ordered new district maps to be prepared by January 29, and would have to be firm in time for the 2018 mid-term primaries and elections. As the judges' opinion stated (and contrary to Rethuglican philosophy):

“On its most fundamental level, partisan gerrymandering violates ‘the core principle of republican government . . . that the voters should choose their representatives, not the other way around.'" (emphasis added)

 Good things happen when good people resist.