Newly Discovered Files Suggest GOP Lawmakers Lied in Court About Racial Gerrymandering to Stop An El
Source: Slate
Newly Discovered Files Suggest GOP Lawmakers Lied in Court About Racial Gerrymandering to Stop An Election
By MARK JOSEPH STERN
JUNE 06, 20194:59 PM
The latest bombshell from the formerly secret files of the GOP’s top gerrymandering guru emerged on Thursday, and it’s astounding: Voting rights advocates claim to have evidence that North Carolina Republican lawmakers repeatedly lied to a federal court, and to the public, in a successful effort to delay a special election that threatened their legislative supermajority.
Republicans across the country employed Thomas Hofeller for years to draw gerrymanders that would dilute Democratic votes. When he died in 2018, he left behind 18 thumb drives and four hard drives containing 75,000 files—a vast trove of information detailing his work for the GOP, including damning revelations. His estranged daughter turned over the material to Common Cause, a voting rights advocacy group, in February.
The newest discovery from the files pertains to Covington v. North Carolina, a challenge to Republicans’ racial gerrymander of state legislative districts. In 2016, a federal district court ordered the legislature to draw new maps and hold a special election after finding the map had been illegally gerrymandered along racial lines.
The Supreme Court agreed that the maps were unlawful, but sent the case back to district court to resolve how quickly Republican lawmakers could draw new maps without excessively disrupting the state’s elections. GOP legislators insisted that they had not yet prepared any maps and would need ample time to do so. So the district court declined to order the special election, allowing Republicans to maintain their supermajority for another year and further manipulate state elections. (The supermajority was broken in 2018, the next election under the new maps.)
Read more: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/hofeller-republican-gerrymandering-north-carolina.html
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for lying GOPee?
Scumbags
How could we be anything but ecstatic when the 4th of Trump is less than a month away?
If only the team in charge of fireworks on the Mall could send up a totally brown firework show! That would be worth the price of admission.
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God only knows how many treacherous acts he committed before he did everyone a favor and died.
She showed a great deal of concern and responsibility when she outed him. What a shame there aren't more like her.
Here is his Wikipedia for anyone who doesn't know too much about him:
Rudolf Hess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Hess
There are a lot of photos of Hess taken during his trial at Nuremberg. He was clearly among those at the top of the pile of Nazis. That must have been some assignment.
Thank you, so much, for taking the time to share this info. Your experience was one no one would ever be able to forget. One of a kind. There would be a lot of people who would have paid to look through your eyes at him for just a moment to try to examine what kind of person can turn out so wrong! I understand there are disputes about whether his death was really suicide, or if someone else did it.
Thanks, again.
I'm not surprised. They can only beat us when they cheat us. 
