Comments on: North Carolina’s SCOTUS reverses previous rulings on redistricting and restores some voting safeguards

By: stan

stan — Mon, 01 May 2023 13:39:39 +0000

Sam Ervin was considered a leader of the anti-civil rights coalition.

” Ervin served as the principal legal adviser to the segregationist bloc in the Senate and voted against virtually every civil rights bill.”

” Ervin’s battles against civil rights legislation dominated his time and energy.”

Just a couple of quotes from different academic studies from a quick search.

Al Gore, Sr and Sam Ervin were particularly noted in their leadership of the southern opposition to civil rights in the senate.

By: momo

momo — Mon, 01 May 2023 08:50:50 +0000

SCOTUS — Supreme Court of the UNITED STATES

Therefore, there is no North Carolina SCOTUS. There is a SCOTNC, but no SCOT_US_

Thank you.

By: Skip

Skip — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 23:05:14 +0000

My understanding is in Pennsylvania it is also the state legislative who makes the precincts boundaries and our Leftists on the State Supreme Court took over and left a Leftist make them up without the legislative body.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 20:16:42 +0000

One of the activist Democrats on the NC Supreme Ct was a Davidson classmate of mine, Jimmy Ervin. Jimmy is the grandson of Sam Ervin, who was best known for his racism and work in the Senate to take down Nixon.
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Ervin’s views on policy questions were standard for Southern politicians of his vintage. I don’t believe he was known as a race baiter. He was a critic of civil rights laws and remained so until the end of his days, long after it. was politically useful to him. He placed an article in Modern Age ca. 1983 on the subject. He’d been out of office for eight years at that point. (The title of the article was, IIRC, ‘Civil Rights and Constitutional Wrongs’).
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As for the Senate Watergate Committee, it had on it four Democrats and three Republicans. The Senators on the committee were selected by their respective floor leaders. Two of the Democrats were Southerners whose policy preferences were likely closer to the median of the Republican caucus than to the median of the Democratic caucus. A third was Joseph Montoya, who read his questions off of index cards (prepared by his staff?) and did not ask follow up questions of much use. The big showboat on the committee was Lowell Weicker, a liberal Republican from Connecticut (who, among the committee’s members and counsel, is the only one still living).

By: stan

stan — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 19:27:05 +0000

By: Telemachus

Telemachus — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 18:24:25 +0000

Kate, thank you for the update in that election that saw Earls elected. I was living out of the US during this election, and didn’t know this about Anglin. Sounds like Dem dishonesty again.

By: Frederick

Frederick — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 17:34:54 +0000

State-level races are certainly worth engaging in, and its’ what anyone who wants to oppose the Left needs to concentrate on. It’s never one-and-done with the Left, so unless you want new judges to undo what old judges did you can never take your eye off the ball.

The national level unfortunately is hopeless–the Electoral College* has locked the Presidency and Congress is dominated by the Uniparty.

But if Right-leaning people consolidate their hold on states where they have control, changing the rules to keep control where necessary, in time they can recover and maybe change things at the national level.

*All states Trump won in 2020, plus Georgia, plus Wisconsin and Michigan are necessary. It will not matter who is nominated for the Republicans, the election is already fortified for the Dems in every other state, and it’s not plausible that both Wisconsin and Michigan will flip back. Vote for the Republican in November 2024 if it makes you feel better, but you won’t help anybody unless you focus on state and local races and don’t get distracted by culture war. Maybe you need to move to a state where you can do some good.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 13:55:59 +0000

Chris Anglin, the man who came in third in the election which put the terrible Anita Earls on the NC Supreme Court, was a registered Democrat until he switched right before putting himself on the ballot. Republicans who knew thought of him as a Dem plant, but he pulled enough votes to elect Earl.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 13:51:24 +0000

Abraham Franklin, that’s exactly what they did. “Fair” meant, more Democrats win.

By: Abraham Franklin

Abraham Franklin — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 12:53:35 +0000

“The constitution does not require or permit a standard [for redistricting fairness] known only to four justices.”

That’s an elegant way of saying the previous majority simply pulled a rule out of their butts.