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Louisiana s Democratic governor said Monday he will ca stanley cup ll the Republican-dominated Legislature into special session soon to draw up new congressional district boundaries, now that a federal judge has blocked use of maps that have only one majority-Black district. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his plan at a news conference at the Capitol in Baton Rouge. He spoke to reporters minutes after the 2022 regular legislative session ended, and a few hours after U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick, also in Baton Rouge, blocked the use of the new maps. Her ruling included an order that the Legislature draw up with a remedial plan by June 20. Edwards, whose veto of the maps was overridden by lawmakers earlier this year, said there should have been a second majority-Black district among the six districts that were approved, noting that the state s population is almost one-third Black. stanley cupe Edwards said redrawing the district lines is required by the court order, the Voting Rights Act and by basic fairnes stanley uk s and basic math. But, lawyers for Republican Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, the state s top elected official, swiftly filed a notice of appeal of Dick s order. Dick s June 20 deadline for drawing new district lines is one month before the signup period for the Nov. 8 congressional election. If the Legislature is unable to pass a remedial plan by that date, the Court will issue additional orders to enact a remedial plan compliant with the laws and Cnmz Man Arrested for Threat to Kill Senator s Staff
THE WACKO PARADE....The Weekly Standard s blog comments on the questioners stanley cup at Wednesday s Republican debate:So, a good night for for the lowest denominator, a bad night for the GOP. America got to see a vaguely threatening parade of gun fetishists, flat worlders, Mars Explorers, Confederate flag lovers and zombie-eyed-Bible-wavers as well as various one issue activists hammering their pet causes.Fu stanley termosky nny! But wait. NRO publishes an email from a reader:I was absolutely disgusted with what I saw tonight from CNN. Thousands of people submitted questions for this debate; yet, the questions they chose only served to reinforce the stereotype that the average Republican voter is a confederate-flag-waving, gun-toting, bible-brandishing conspiracy theorist! There were staggeringly few questions on National Security, and the few that were asked include some of the substanceless gotcha questions which were designed for no other purpose than to induce gaffes.Is the second guy right Did CNN load up the debate with wackos Or is he i stanley quencher n denial about the real face of the contemporary GOP You ll be unsurprised to learn that I vote for option B. If you get questions from tub thumpers, gun nuts, and tax zealots, then you air questions from tub thumpers, gun nuts, and tax zealots. But I m biased. So I guess I ll leave it up to the wingers to fight this one out with CNN. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 {
Louisiana s Democratic governor said Monday he will ca stanley cup ll the Republican-dominated Legislature into special session soon to draw up new congressional district boundaries, now that a federal judge has blocked use of maps that have only one majority-Black district. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his plan at a news conference at the Capitol in Baton Rouge. He spoke to reporters minutes after the 2022 regular legislative session ended, and a few hours after U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick, also in Baton Rouge, blocked the use of the new maps. Her ruling included an order that the Legislature draw up with a remedial plan by June 20. Edwards, whose veto of the maps was overridden by lawmakers earlier this year, said there should have been a second majority-Black district among the six districts that were approved, noting that the state s population is almost one-third Black. stanley cupe Edwards said redrawing the district lines is required by the court order, the Voting Rights Act and by basic fairnes stanley uk s and basic math. But, lawyers for Republican Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, the state s top elected official, swiftly filed a notice of appeal of Dick s order. Dick s June 20 deadline for drawing new district lines is one month before the signup period for the Nov. 8 congressional election. If the Legislature is unable to pass a remedial plan by that date, the Court will issue additional orders to enact a remedial plan compliant with the laws and Cnmz Man Arrested for Threat to Kill Senator s Staff
THE WACKO PARADE....The Weekly Standard s blog comments on the questioners stanley cup at Wednesday s Republican debate:So, a good night for for the lowest denominator, a bad night for the GOP. America got to see a vaguely threatening parade of gun fetishists, flat worlders, Mars Explorers, Confederate flag lovers and zombie-eyed-Bible-wavers as well as various one issue activists hammering their pet causes.Fu stanley termosky nny! But wait. NRO publishes an email from a reader:I was absolutely disgusted with what I saw tonight from CNN. Thousands of people submitted questions for this debate; yet, the questions they chose only served to reinforce the stereotype that the average Republican voter is a confederate-flag-waving, gun-toting, bible-brandishing conspiracy theorist! There were staggeringly few questions on National Security, and the few that were asked include some of the substanceless gotcha questions which were designed for no other purpose than to induce gaffes.Is the second guy right Did CNN load up the debate with wackos Or is he i stanley quencher n denial about the real face of the contemporary GOP You ll be unsurprised to learn that I vote for option B. If you get questions from tub thumpers, gun nuts, and tax zealots, then you air questions from tub thumpers, gun nuts, and tax zealots. But I m biased. So I guess I ll leave it up to the wingers to fight this one out with CNN. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 {