"God's will is being thwarted" in Hood County, by an elections administrator actually doing her job, but who the true wingnuts want replaced with a county clerk who, after Obergefell, resisted giving gay couples marriage licenses. And, Rethugs like former SoS Carlos Cascos who talk about their party eating their own are part of the problem based on previous silence. Even Kenny Boy Paxton defends Michele Carew.
The Trib looks at how redistricting could affect the Valley.
The Monthly looks at some of the most bizarrely gerrymandered U.S. House districts in the Lege's first proposal. I will personally say that being in Michael Burgess' district would be less bad than being in Ronny Jackson's, for two reasons. First, Ronny Jackson. Second, Cooke County would be tied to Denton County, and the advancement of the Metromess, rather than a rural Red River and Panhandle district. At the same time, the reverse cracking and packing due to rural population loss that I expected a year ago is coming to this area, as in exchange for not having any of Cooke County, Jackson WILL, ridiculously, have part of Denton County in his district. "God, Notre Dame and wingnuttery" Pat Fallon will have a sliver of his Fourth also enter Denton County (and Collin) rather than reasonably including Bowie County (Texarkana) along with the rest of the eastern Red River. Colin Allred's 32nd and Mark Veasey's 33rd both look ridiculous.
Off the Kuff took initial looks at the proposed Congressional and State House maps.
Rick Hasen worries that the events leading up to Jan. 6, that is, the bizarre lawsuits, Trump trying to pressure state election officials, are not in our rearview mirror, but are rather ever more in front of us.
SocraticGadfly, with connections to his most recent vacation, shows that, based on both the past at Olympic National Park and the present at Point Reyes National Seashore, the National Park Service still simply cannot be trusted to regularly be a good environmental steward.
Former Shrub Bush flunky Matthew JAY Dowd screwed the pooch on the start of his Dem run for Lite Guv. Rather than delete his entire Twitter account, he, or rather "he" and whatever political PR firm he hired, deleted 175K Tweets, as Fox reported. Then, on CNN, he claimed that Fox had "dream(ed) up some conspiracy theory" in reporting this. Actually, Fox was dreaming, smoking crack, or stringing wingnuts when it called Dowd a "left-wing media pundit." In reality, contra Fox, he's a ConservaDem, and if he got the nomination, and the Greens didn't have either A. Any candidate at all or B. A non-nutter, I wouldn't vote for him.
Stace laments Houston Cops Being No-Billed for killing of Nicolas Chavez.
The Austin Chronicle reviews a new TV special about the Michael Morton case.
South By Southwest shares its views on the "punitive legislation" being pushed and passed by Republicans.
Steve Vladeck testified before Congress about Texas' unconstitutional abortion ban and the role of the "shadow docket" in SCOTUS letting it stand.
Juanita celebrates the Alex Jones verdict.
Jef Rouner tallies up some of the winners and losers of redistricting so far.
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