Judge blocks voter purge in 2 Georgia counties
Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, sister of Stacey Abrams, rejected a call for her to recuse.
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Federal judge (Stacey Abrams' sister) prevents two Georgia counties from purging 4,000 voters before Senate runoff
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I fail to see how your sibling being a voting rights advocate means you can't rule on cases involving voting rights. If she was the plaintiff/defendant, sure, but that's way too broad of a brush.
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.........I'm not implying anything?
What's with your accusatory tone?
If anything, it's cool to see that efforts to fight voter suppression extend beyond Stacey in the family.
FOH
Imagine starting a voter suppression lawsuit and ending up with Stacy Abrams' sister as the judge 😂
It's just that, bullshit.
But I fear the other side will use it as a basis to appeal the ruling
I wish I still believed this. 10 years ago I thought No way the GOP is able to sustain itself the old racists are finally dying off. I thought the newer generations wouldn't fall down that same path of bigotry. Boy was I wrong. Even now there are so many young angry white men. Shits never ending.
Like I said, if there's ANY shot at winning Georgia, Abrams - and now, Abrameses - will get it done.
It's nice to want things, but Republicans just shit all over Democrats in the 2020 election at literally every level of government except for the Executive branch.
I could very well be wrong, but I feel like Trump is peak late 20th century GOP. They're using all of the old tricks but maxed out. No diet racism dog whistles, but blow horns and concentration camps. Constant lying. Voter suppression to the max.
It worked in 2016, but it didn't work in 2020. It was close, but I subscribe to the cult leader turnout theory. If you examine actual policy, they're totally lost.
Arizona and George will be blue states in 2030. Florida will continue to be a tossup, and Ohio will be lost, but we should start seeing Texas in play in the 2030s.
The only way I see the GOP being viable long term is to soften the racism and win over white Hispanics.
I sure hope so.
I kept hearing about all the new voter registrations in Texas and my naïve ass thought, surely they're not just now registering to vote for fucking donald tump. Turns out I was wrong.
We need someone like Stacey Abrams in every southern state. I'm sure there's actually more Dem voters but with voter suppression we would never know.
They are an awesome family
No they didn't. Who won the House?
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Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you but what I read sounded like what conservatives are whining about right now: that being her sister is somehow a conflict of interest.
Democrats lost at least 23 (possibly 25) house seats in 2020 compared to 2018, which is a pretty stunning reversal since virtually every presidential cycle the party that wins the White House tends to expand its lead in Congress. Their majority in the house went from 35 seat majority to a 12 seat majority.
In the past as well mid term elections have gone against the incumbent, with the opposition winning more seats in the House - Republicans won under Clinton, Democrats won under Bush, Republicans won under Obama, and Democrats won under Trump (2018). It'll be interesting to see what happens in 2022.
Well the other point I think the poster you replied to was making was that democrats lost in a lot of (local) state races, as legislative chambers in many states stayed or went Republican. Democrats failed to flip a single legislative body they had targeted. The republicans will control re-districting which will hurt even more 2022 chances.
As Biden won the presidency, Republicans cemented their grip on power for the next decade
Democrats lost big in state elections which could cost them when new political maps are drawn
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Republicans control the governorship and legislation in Georgia and you can be pretty sure they will work hard to redistrict the state to minimize Democrat chances in the future.
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Republicans won nearly every seat they contested for the House. Democrats didn't win the house, they maintained their lead by a thin margin. No Democrat is happy about their House performance.
Georgia's Democratic infrastructure is solid and delivered wins in the past and black voters are turning out in record numbers in the runoff.
