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See my post above. It seems the US Constitution requires that district lines be drawn on population and not on eligible voters. That does not mean that illegal immigrants have the right to vote. They do not. But their numbers must be included as a factor when district lines are drawn.

When I shared this idea with my wife last night, she said it won't work because the US Constitution prescribes another method. ChatGPT put it this way (emphasis mine): "Excluding non-U.S. citizens for the purpose of drawing district lines is not permissible. The U.S. Constitution requires that...

More about this here, regarding the Classified Information Procedures Act. It seems Judge Cannon has already decided the classified documents in question are indeed classified documents. Trump has said he declassified the documents. No sale. The judge ain't buying it...

New York AG Case Against Trump Narrowed This ruling seems reasonable and fair to me. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/27/us-court-narrows-scope-of-trump-civil-suit-dismisses-ivanka

I'm skeptical about that. Sources? Checks and balances is a fundamental American idea that has been in place for centuries. That is a prevailing idea. The independent state legislature theory and ideas akin to it are antithetical. It seems improbable to me that the two ideas would both be...

Prevailing where? Just because an idea has been floating around out there for a long time does not make it the law of the land. To be specific, the legal theory before the court in today's ruling was the independent state legislature theory (IDLT). The Court soundly rejected that theory...

Indeed.

It is correct that Republicans were not alone in their gerrymandering activity. With gerrymandering, there is a natural bias for the incumbents to make their own seats safe. To that end, if a party lacks the super-majority power to impose unfair district lines, they are happy to work with each...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rebuffed a legal theory that argued that state legislatures have the authority to set election rules with little oversight from state courts, a major decision that turns away a conservative push to empower state legislatures. By a 6-3 vote, the court rejected the...

There are thousands of people who would like a job on Carlson's new team. But does Carlson want or need them? Producing a Twitter opinion show requires a fraction of the staff it takes to produce a national TV show. And so far, zero revenue has been produced from the Tucker on Twitter show...

I'm not sure about post-Musk Twitter either. We can look at the obvious and draw conclusions from that. Beyond that, it's hard to know much of anything. For example, say personality X has 1 million followers today, up from 1/2 million a year ago. The obvious conclusion is this personality has...

I'm not certain, but I don't think so. I've heard talk about special rules that govern cases where classified documents are part of the evidence. While documents and info are handled in a certain way under the rules, I don't think the jurors in such cases have to have security clearances. I've...

Under Seal Because the Trump Mar-a-Lago documents case (national security case) involves classified documents, a number of filings will be done under seal. One such filing was made today. We don't know what it was because it's sealed. It's going to be like that a lot between now and trial...

I agree that Trump is not being charged with committing acts of espionage. Nothing in the indictment suggests he is. What Biden people have said Trump has been charged with acts of espionage? Names? Quotes? This sounds like a straw-man accusation to me.

The article you cite is dated Sept. 2022. Musk took over Twitter in Oct. 2022. Since then, the value of the company has dropped 67%, according to asset manager Fidelity (which owns part of Twitter). Musk has laid off massive numbers of Twitter staff. User growth rate has declined and ad revenue...

Is Trump Returning to Twitter? We'll know at the end of June. "Trump has an exclusivity agreement with Truth Social. This means he must share all his social-media communications on the platform first and "may not make the same post on another social media site for 6 hours," Securities and...

Among those who care about "twittering" are Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson. And Trump may soon rejoin Twitter. See this. Looking, I found no data regarding the average IQ of Twitter users. I did find a 2019 stat that said the US Twitter audience is higher educated than the general population, but...

There we have it, folks. If Trump pardoned himself, it would stand unquestioned by everyone ... because muttly says so.

On that, we disagree. We'll know the answer in a year or two, or sooner if Trump pleads out.

Correct. When Carlson aired his first Tucker on Twitter show, he had 6.7 million followers. Today, he has 8.8 million. If you review my post above, you will see a major decline in his number of show views. This can only mean one thing. He has more followers who are watching his show less. Put...