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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of November 17

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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.

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  1. nic
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    Last week: US justice department sues California over new voting maps favouring Democrats Huh. I wonder if there are any other states that have made a "brazen" power grab using racially...

    Last week: US justice department sues California over new voting maps favouring Democrats

    Attorney General Pam Bondi accused California Governor Gavin Newsom of a "brazen" power grab using racially gerrymandered maps.

    Huh. I wonder if there are any other states that have made a "brazen" power grab using racially gerrymandered maps....?

    This week: US court blocks Texas from using newly redrawn voting maps

    "The public perception of this case is that it's about politics," US Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote in the decision.

    "To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map."

    What, oh what, is the Supreme Court to do? Blatantly reverse California as racist gerrymandering but remand Texas as ok because the Texas map is clearly only partisan not racist?

    5 votes
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    Omnicrola
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    In a shift, Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files ... is the game here "pretend to be in favor of it for publicity sake while silently telling GoP allies to continue...

    In a shift, Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files

    President Trump now says that House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files "because we have nothing to hide."

    In a Truth Social post Sunday evening, he again called the issue a "Democrat Hoax" intended to "deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party."

    ... is the game here "pretend to be in favor of it for publicity sake while silently telling GoP allies to continue blocking it in Congress" ?

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    1. TheRtRevKaiser
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      Cynically, I wonder if it's because they feel confident that they have put together a release of "the files" that wouldn't include any dirt on trump. I know there was reporting earlier in the year...

      Cynically, I wonder if it's because they feel confident that they have put together a release of "the files" that wouldn't include any dirt on trump. I know there was reporting earlier in the year that the DOJ had FBI agents working to redact any details about Trump from any files that they had.

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    2. gryfft
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      The files are part of an ongoing investigation, so regardless of how the House and Senate vote, the files can't be released.

      The files are part of an ongoing investigation, so regardless of how the House and Senate vote, the files can't be released.

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    3. Eji1700
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      This whole thing has been weird to watch because there’s no real rules and no real trust and yet people think this is somehow going to matter. Maybe it will, but I feel that all the smart money is...

      This whole thing has been weird to watch because there’s no real rules and no real trust and yet people think this is somehow going to matter.

      Maybe it will, but I feel that all the smart money is on more nothing. Be that because of the active investigation, straight up doctored or fake files, massive redactions, or even outright denial.

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