17 votes

Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of June 5

Automatically posted
Tags: usa, politics, recurring.weekly

This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.

This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.

7 comments

  1. skybrian
    Link
    Supreme Court unexpectedly upholds provision prohibiting racial gerrymandering [...]

    Supreme Court unexpectedly upholds provision prohibiting racial gerrymandering

    By a 5-to-4 vote, a coalition of conservative and liberal justices reaffirmed the court's 1986 precedent interpreting how legislative districts must be drawn under the landmark voting rights act, as amended in 1982. The court said that in Alabama, a state where there are seven congressional seats and one in four voters is black, the Republican-dominated state legislature had denied African American voters a reasonable chance to elect a second representative of their choice.

    The decision could reverberate across other states, with reconsideration of how congressional lines are drawn in areas with significant Black populations.

    [...]

    At issue in the case was Alabama's congressional redistricting plan, adopted after the 2020 census. The Republican-dominated legislature drew new district lines that packed large numbers of Black voters into one congressional district, and then spread out the remaining Black population in other districts so that Black voters had little chance of electing a second representative of their choice in a racially polarized state.

    6 votes
  2. unkz
    Link
    Utah district’s Bible ban spurs protest by parents, Republicans

    Utah district’s Bible ban spurs protest by parents, Republicans

    Republican lawmakers rallied with more than one hundred Bible-toting parents and children at Utah’s Capitol on Wednesday to protest a school district’s decision to remove the Bible from middle and elementary school libraries in the wake of a GOP-backed “sensitive materials” law passed two years ago.

    Concerned parents and children holding signs that read “The Bible is the original textbook” and “Remove porn, not the Bible,” said they were outraged after the Davis School District announced that a review committee concluded the Bible was too “violent or vulgar” for young children. The committee ruled that it did not qualify as obscene or pornographic under the sensitive materials law, but used its own discretion to remove it from libraries below the high school level.

    2 votes
  3. [5]
    epideme
    (edited )
    Link
    So what's the betting Jack Smith will indict Trump in June?

    So what's the betting Jack Smith will indict Trump in June?

    1 vote
    1. [4]
      Minori
      Link Parent
      I'll be surprised if there isn't an indictment by the end of July with the recent statements that Trump is being directly targeted in the investigation. The president shouldn't be above the law,...

      I'll be surprised if there isn't an indictment by the end of July with the recent statements that Trump is being directly targeted in the investigation. The president shouldn't be above the law, but I have no clue how the GOP primary will end up without Trump.

      3 votes
      1. [3]
        kerwox
        Link Parent
        There's no rule he can't run after being indicted. US democracy has turned into Air Bud

        There's no rule he can't run after being indicted.
        US democracy has turned into Air Bud

        5 votes
        1. [2]
          MimicSquid
          Link Parent
          Interestingly, 46% of Republicans would still prefer him even if he was convicted (not even just indicted.) But that would only get him through the primaries. That support isn't anywhere near...

          Interestingly, 46% of Republicans would still prefer him even if he was convicted (not even just indicted.) But that would only get him through the primaries. That support isn't anywhere near enough on the national stage.

          4 votes
          1. kerwox
            Link Parent
            It's not, but given the track record of republican voters, the ones saying they won't support him, will line up and pull the lever if he wins the primary.

            It's not, but given the track record of republican voters, the ones saying they won't support him, will line up and pull the lever if he wins the primary.

            4 votes