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studdfeed · 1 year

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The Alabama House of Representatives passed House Resolution 20, which recognizes the contributions of Irish-Americans to the state of Alabama in celebration of St. Patrick's Day.

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 11 months

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The Republicans could lose several seats in the House of Representatives due to a surprise Supreme Court ruling which will create a new Black majority district in Alabama, according to a new study.

On Thursday the Supreme Court backed a lower court's ruling, by five votes to four, which found the districts drawn up by the state violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits "discrimination on the basis of race" in the electoral process. Chief Justice John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh, both widely regarded as conservatives, voted with the court's three liberal members to deliver the result.

The ruling means the boundaries of Alabama's seven House districts will need to be redrawn ahead of the 2024 congressional elections, in a move that is expected to benefit the Democrats. It will also increase pressure on other Republican states to follow suit, strengthening the Democratic position in North Carolina and Louisiana.

The Cook Political Report, a non-partisan analytics website, updated its ratings for five House districts following the ruling.

Alabama's 1st and 2nd congressional districts, currently represented by Republicans Jerry Carl and Barry Moore respectively, have been changed from "solid Republican" to "toss up."

The same has happened to Louisiana's 5th and 6th districts, putting seats currently held by Republicans Julia Letlow and Garret Graves, at risk to the Democrats.

Finally North Carolina's 1st congressional district, which is occupied by Democrat Don Davis, transitions from "toss up" to "lean Democrat."

However the Cook Political Report does add a caveat to its predictions, commenting: "Until courts or legislatures enact remedial plans, it's difficult to predict exactly which Republican incumbents will be impacted."

The Supreme Court's decision could open the door to additional legal challenges in other states whose maps have faced contention from critics arguing they purposefully dilute minority voters to favor Republicans. Louisiana and Georgia—whose state legislatures passed redistricting plans with similar characteristics to Alabama's—could face renewed legal challenges to their maps on the grounds they disproportionately diminish the power of the state's voters.

Thursday's court ruling was welcomed by President Joe Biden, who repeated calls for Congress to pass wider ranging voting reform.

"Today's decision confirms the basic principle that voting practices should not discriminate on account of race, but our work is not done," he commented.

However Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall insisted the state will continue the fight, stating: "Although the majority's decision is disappointing, this case is not over."

Derrick Johnson, president of civil rights group the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) saluted the decision as "a victory for Black America and a triumph for our democracy."

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tomorrowusa · 2 months

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At least 125 House Republicans want to ban abortion from the time of conception.

H.R.431 — 118th Congress, dated 20 January 2023, is called "Life at Conception Act”.

Of course this bill would prohibit ALL abortions. And according to The New Republic, it would also outlaw in vitro fertilization.

Like the Alabama ruling, the Life at Conception Act would have severely restricted—if not effectively banned—IVF treatments as well, because it grants “equal protection” to “preborn” humans, including embryos. Since it’s common for fertilized eggs not to survive the IVF process, the act would put doctors at risk of being charged for wrongful death of embryos. That risk would be enough to scupper the IVF industry. And that is exactly what is happening in Alabama. The state Supreme Court ruled 7–2 last week that embryos created through IVF can be considered children and are thus protected under the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.

Effectively, Republicans want to make America Alabama.

HR 431 was sponsored by Rep. Alexander X. Mooney (R-WV-02) who sits on the House Judiciary Committee. The bill has 124 co-sponsors. That's too long to list in a post but you can view the names here. Of course, the list includes fundamentalist Speaker "MAGA Mike" Johnson (R-LA-04).

Democrats have released a list of nine GOP co-sponsors of HR431 in swing districts and two 2024 GOP House candidates in similar districts who have voiced support for HR 431.

Vulnerable House Republicans Put IVF and Feriilty Treatments At Risk

Republicans are intent on regulating reproduction at every level in the US. They had worked for 49 years to repeal Roe v. Wade until they were finally successful in 2022 – thanks to Trump and Bush Supreme Court justices.

The ONLY sure way to protect reproductive freedom in the United States is to make sure the White House and both chambers of Congress are run by Democrats.

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drnicolejoneswadsworth · 2 months

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Battle of Goat Hill - Practice

🥎 The Alabama House is ready to take on the Senate in the Annual Battle of Goat Hill Charity Softball Game!

Thank you to Alabama State University for allowing us to use the field last week. After a strong practice we are confident the trophy will leave the field with the HOUSE!

When: March 20th @ 5:30 PM Where: Montgomery Biscuits Stadium #Our67

#alabama #Nicolejoneswadsworth #Timwadswirth #Rep #dr #charity #softball #montgomeryal #Dr. Nicole Jones #Dr. Nicole Wadsworth #House of Representatives #montgomery biscuits #Nicole Jones Alabama #Big Oak Ranch #House vs Senate

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easye2014 · 13 days

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easyearlsposts · 14 days

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scurvgirl · 2 years

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I haven’t seen this on my dash so here it is. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill codifying same-sex marriage and it is now going to the Senate where there really is an actual chance of it passing. Sure, there are assholes who won’t support it, but there are Republican senators willing to support it and we need their support to get this passed. If you live in a state with a Republican senator, please call the senate office telling them that as a constituent, you support same-sex marriage and the Respect for Marriage Act.

The following senators are reported to be undecided, if one of these senators is yours, CALL!!!

Richard Burr, North Carolina

Roy Blunt, Missouri

Mike Braun, Indiana

Joni Ernst, Iowa

Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming

Rand Paul, Kentucky

Mitch McConnell?, Kentucky (yeah, I’m shocked the evil undead gizzard demon is in the undecided category as well but...might as well pressure the fucker)

Mitt Romney, Utah

Mike Rounds, South Dakota (specifically Mr. Rounds is quoted as acknowledging difference between a religious marriage and a legal one, go ahead and specify that you support granting couples the legal rights and protections that are given with a legal marriage)

Rick Scott, Florida

Dan Sullivan, Alaska (notably, Mr. Sullivan is quoted to recognize and respect the existing Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage! Pressure this man!!)

John Thune, South Dakota

Patt Toomey, Pennsylvania

Tommy Tuberville, Alabama

Todd Young, Indiana

This information was gathered from CNN on 7/21/22.

For clarification: Same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states right now based on the 2015 Supreme Court ruling. But, with the court standing as it is and with Roe being taken down, codifying same-sex marriage in law would mean that the Supreme Court would have a much, MUCH harder time stripping away the right. This is important. Marriage as a legal binding is critical to allowing spouses to visit each other in the hospital, make medical decisions, share assets, adopt and form families, and more. We need TEN Republicans to support the bill, so far there are FIVE likely supporters - we need AT LEAST FIVE MORE.

Please reblog this!!!

#us politics #respect for marriage act #same-sex marriage #queer rights #gay marriage #gay rights

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retropopcult · 6 months

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President Jimmy Carter signing the House of Representative resolution for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) before it was sent to the states for ratification in October 1978. The Equal Rights Amendment was supported by those who believed that women should have equal status to men in the United States; unfortunately, it failed to gain ratification by the required number of states and therefore was not made into law. The states that failed to ratify: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia.

#1970s #women's rights #National Archives #history #Roslaynn Carter

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mybeingthere · 4 months

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SISTER GERTRUDE MORGAN, 1900 - 1980, born in Alabama, USA.

“I guess my paintings spread the word; they represent something. They get me a living, of course, and help out the mission here … I am a missionary of Christ before I’m an artist. Give all the fame to some other artist. I work for the Lord. Now don’t forget to give Him credit.”

A street preacher who became an artist, poet, and musician, Sister Gertrude Morgan was guided throughout her life by visions from God. Her artistic talent was a conduit to express her religious fervor and illustrate her teachings. Self-taught, Morgan created artworks when the Spirit moved her, using found materials such as cardboard, window shades, wood, signs, and more. Her imaginative compositions often incorporated text to emphasize important themes or to cite Scripture verses. Later in her career after 1970, Morgan devoted the majority of her paintings to biblical scenes from the Book of Revelation, which focuses on the second coming of Christ. Her recurring imagery depicts the Book of Revelation’s theme of the New Jerusalem, which represents the Holy City for Christ’s followers and the fulfillment of all God’s promises. Morgan’s interpretations of this abstract, spiritual concept often include a large multistory building shown in cross section to reveal empty chambers and Christ preparing for His marriage to Sister Gertrude, as shown in New Jerusalem Court and Untitled (New Jerusalem). “And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.”

Born on April 7, 1900, to a poor rural family in LaFayette, Morgan moved to New Orleans in 1939 to begin her missionary work as a singing street preacher and soon joined the Holiness and Sanctified denomination, a church where the services praised God through music and dancing. In the early 1940s, Morgan adopted the title “Sister” when she worked with two other street missionaries, Mother Margaret Parker and Sister Cora Williams. The three women built a chapel and opened a children’s shelter; the center closed down when it was destroyed by a hurricane in 1965. Morgan then moved to St. Bernard Parish where she became a nurse to a woman whose house later became Morgan’s Everlasting Gospel Mission.

– Vicki Phung Smith

https://www.juxtapoz.com/.../outsider-artist-gertrude.../

https://www.bridgeprojects.com/art.../sister-gertrude-morgan

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socialjusticeinamerica · 1 month

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How do we not know about these things until after the fact. The Republicans are light years ahead of us in organization, messaging, opposition research, etc.

It’s not enough just to defeat Trump. We need to take back the Senate, the House of Representatives, clear the fascists from the SCOTUS, and take back the state legislatures.

This is a war and we can not be divided. We must stick together and defeat this Republican scourge begore they take away the right to vote and protest.

Your very existence depends on voting and defeating every Republican candidate on the 2024 ballot.

#cruelty is the point #republican assholes #diversity #equity #inclusion #Alabama bigots #maga morons #RESIST!#never trump #traitor trump #crooked donald #Vote Blue #Vote Democratic

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mydaddywiki · 6 months

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Greg Canfield

Physique: Husky Build Height: 5'7"

John Gregory Canfield (born July 12, 1960) is an American politician from the state of Alabama. He currently serves as the Secretary of Commerce for the State of Alabama. Prior to joining Commerce, Canfield served in the Alabama House of Representatives as chairman of the Commerce & Small Business Committee.

Handsome, husky, thick hairy forearms, big hands, chubby fingers, wears tasseled loafers and has probably the best looking ass in politics. THE BEST. Seriously, almost all the pics I have of him here, you can see it at any angle.

The Birmingham, AL native is married with two children. Personally I think he is fantastically cute and if he wants to experience man on man sex, I am more than willing to help make that dream a reality for him. Charity is in my nature.

#Greg Canfield #mydaddywiki politicians

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morbidology · 3 months

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On 3 September, 1944, Recy Taylor from Abbeville, Alabama, was abducted while leaving her afternoon church service. She was walking home when a car filled with white men pulled up beside her and dragged her into the car. Inside the car was US Army Private Herbert Lovett and six other men, Hugo Wilson, Dillard York, Billy Howerton, Luther Lee, Joe Culpepper and Robert Gamble, all of whom were armed. From here, the ruthless men took her to a secluded area while all seven of them brutally sexually assaulted her in turns.

After eventually letting Recy go, the men were quickly identified by the car that was used to abduct her. The driver, Hugo Wilson, was called in for questioning and readily confessed to what they had done. Nevertheless, none of the other men were ever questioned and Wilson was set free without any charges being brought against him. Unsurprisingly, the African American community were outraged by this clear lack of justice and racial bias and reported the case to the NAACP in Montgomery.

Rosa Parks, an investigator and prevalent activist against sexual assault on minorities, was sent in to build a defence for Recy. Despite the clear evidence against the men and the confession from Wilson, they were prohibited from being identified at trial and the case was thrown out by an all white, all male jury. Afterwards, Recy received a number of death threats from citizens of the town and even from the men who had attacked her.

Keen for justice and for the case to be known, NAACP and Rosa Parks spread the horrific story up the coast to Harlem, New York, and made it into publications such as the New York Daily News and Pittsburgh Courier. With the story spreading, activists wrote to the Governor of Alabama who gradually agreed to launch an investigation. Four out of the seven attackers admitted that they had sexually assaulted Recy, who was a reserved and married woman, but attempted to justify it by calling her a “prostitute” and “willing participant.”

Joe Culpepper confessed that the group had gone out in search of a woman to rape - his story as to what took place corroborated exactly what Recy had said. Despite this, a second all white, all male jury refused to issue any indictments. In 2011, the Alabama House of Representatives apologised to Taylor on behalf of the state “for its failure to prosecute her attackers.

#Recy Taylor #civil rights #racism #history

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Lands, a Democrat who ran on reproductive rights, flips seat in Alabama House | AP News

Marilyn Lands, who campaigned on abortion rights in deeply conservative Alabama, won a special election to the Alabama Legislature, in a victory that Democrats say illustrates voter backlash to extreme reproductive restrictions imposed by Republicans.

Lands, a Democrat, on Tuesday decisively defeated Republican Teddy Powell to win the open House of Representatives seat in a suburban district that — while increasingly politically moderate — had long been held by the GOP. Her victory was celebrated by Democrats who said it underscores the importance of reproductive rights as an issue across the country ahead of the 2024 elections.

“Voters want something different, and I think they are tired of women’s freedoms and reproductive health care not being addressed,” Lands told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

Alabama bans abortion at all stages of pregnancy with no exception for pregnancies arising from rape. Lands’ victory comes several weeks after in vitro fertilization services were temporarily paused in the state after the Alabama Supreme Court issued a ruling equating frozen embryos to children.

#Lands #Alabama #House #Abortion #reproductive rights

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radiofreederry · 11 months

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I see a lot of posts that seem to conflate gerrymandering with voter suppression writ large, so I thought I'd take some time to define and explain what gerrymandering actually is.

Keep in mind that gerrymandering is most prominent in America and I'm using an American perspective in this post, but it can happen in any country with single-member electoral constituencies.

Firstly, gerrymandering specifically applies to the drawing of single-member legislative constituencies. Districts for the US House of Representatives, state legislatures, or even local bodies such as city councils can be gerrymandered. When applied to state-level or national-level elections - what we may consider "at large" elections - such as for state governors, US Senators, or the President, the term effectively has no meaning.

There are two basic forms of gerrymandering, which are generally accomplished in one of two ways. I'll break down the methods used first:

PACKING is when a specific bloc of voters are crammed into one district. This can be done either to dilute the voting power of that bloc by ensuring they only hold influence in one district, or to ensure representation of an interest group. This was the intention of Illinois's 4th congressional district, long infamously nicknamed "the earmuffs" because of its shape, which united two otherwise-unconnected Latine communities in Chicago, following a court order to ensure a majority-Latine district in the Chicago area.

Black voters in Alabama were also packed into a single district, in a map that was just struck down by the Supreme Court as a racial gerrymander and violation of the Voting Rights Act. More on this in a bit.

CRACKING explicitly seeks to dilute the power of a particular voting bloc, by shattering it among several different districts such that the bloc becomes a minority in each, and is unable to influence election results, which inevitably favor the preferred majority in each district. In Republican-governed states, this is often employed as a tactic to break the voting power of urban areas, which tend to be more diverse and liberal. For a specific example, look to Texas' capital Austin, one of the state's most progressive cities, which is split between six districts, only two of which are Democratic, and some of which are represented by some of the most conservative members of Congress.

Gerrymandering can also be done via "hijacking," drawing district borders such that two incumbents have to fight over one seat, or by "kidnapping," in which the home of one district's incumbent is redrawn into another, but those are less prevalent.

Now, as stated, there are generally two reasons for gerrymandering: racial and partisan. In the United States, the lines between these are often blurry, because specific racial and ethnic groups tend to lean towards one party or another (i.e. Black voters in general tend to favor voting Democratic, while Vietnamese voters are more likely to favor Republican candidates). Regardless, racial gerrymandering is explicitly unlawful as affirmed in the 1995 Supreme Court case Miller v. Johnson (exceptions have been applied, such as the Illinois example above, where the intent is to ensure representation of an underrepresented group), whereas the legality of partisan gerrymandering is more of a state-by-state affair.

Gerrymandering is not merely a Republican tool of voter suppression - and given that it is only applicable to elections involving single-member districts with maps drawn on a partisan basis, it's not even the principal method of voter suppression they use. Democrats also employ gerrymandering - it's simply a natural feature of a system that uses these kinds of districts! For example, going back to Illinois, the current 13th district cuts a swath through rural downstate Illinois to create a majority Democratic district and dilute the voting power of rural Republicans.

I hope this post has given you a better understanding of what gerrymandering is and what it is not - remember that when discussing voter suppression, we also should be talking about things like voter ID laws, voter roll purges, barriers to registration, the barring of convicts from voting, etc. There's a lot more to voter suppression than just gerrymandering.

#politics #law

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reasonsforhope · 11 months

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"The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a surprising 5-4 ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case from Alabama, with two conservative justices joining liberals in rejecting a Republican-led effort to weaken a landmark voting rights law.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh aligned with the court’s liberals in affirming a lower-court ruling that found a likely violation of the Voting Rights Act in an Alabama congressional map with one majority Black seat out of seven districts in a state where more than one in four residents is Black. The state now will have to draw a new map for next year’s elections.

The decision was keenly anticipated for its potential effect on control of the closely divided U.S. House of Representatives. Because of the ruling, new maps are likely in Alabama and Louisiana that could allow Democratic-leaning Black voters to elect their preferred candidates in two more congressional districts.

The outcome was unexpected in that the court had allowed the challenged Alabama map to be used for the 2022 elections, and in arguments last October the justices appeared willing to make it harder to challenge redistricting plans as racially discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act of 1965...

The case stems from challenges to Alabama’s seven-district congressional map, which included one district in which Black voters form a large enough majority that they have the power to elect their preferred candidate. The challengers said that one district is not enough, pointing out that overall, Alabama’s population is more than 25% Black.

A three-judge court, with two appointees of former President Donald Trump, had little trouble concluding that the plan likely violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the votes of Black Alabamians. That “likely” violation was the standard under which the preliminary injunction was issued by the three-judge panel, which ordered a new map drawn.

But the state quickly appealed to the Supreme Court, where five conservative justices prevented the lower-court ruling from going forward. At the same time, the court decided to hear the Alabama case.

Louisiana’s congressional map had separately been identified as probably discriminatory by a lower court. That map, too, remained in effect last year and now will have to be redrawn.

The National Redistricting Foundation said in a statement that its pending lawsuits over congressional districts in Georgia and Texas also could be affected."

-via AP, June 8, 2023

#scotus #supreme court #united states #us politics #voting #voting matters #voting rights #voting rights act #racial justice #gerrymandering #alabama #louisiana #georgia #texas #good news #hope #also Pat Robertson died today - good news really is coming in threes!

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