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May 25, 2017

05/25 Mike Luckovich: Terminal.

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May 24, 2017

Marc Elias was the head of the Clinton Victory Counsel program

I just signed up for this program. I put a ton of time in for the Clinton volunteer legal team and I am glad to donate my time as a lawyer for good causes

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/867145799112822784

May 15, 2017

Supreme Court wont review decision that found N.C. voting law discriminates against African America

Source: Washington Post

The Supreme Court will not review a decision that found North Carolina’s 2013 voting law discriminated against African American voters, the justices said Monday.

A unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit had found in 2016 that North Carolina legislators had acted “with almost surgical precision” to blunt the influence of African American voters.

And last summer the Supreme Court had divided evenly on whether the law could be used in last fall’s election while the appeals continued.

But the election resulted in a new Democratic governor and a Democratic attorney general, and they had told the court they did not want to defend the law enacted by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature. The Republicans had asked to continue the appeal.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-wont-review-decision-that-found-nc-voting-law-discriminates-against-african-americans/2017/05/15/59425b1c-2368-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html?pushid=5919b5bda0c953380000001b&tid=notifi_push_breaking-news&utm_term=.2f943b451450

May 12, 2017

Colbert was amazing tonight

Trump attacked Colbert and his show in the Time magazine article and Colbert claimed victory over trump. It was wonderful

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