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=====How white supremacy went mainstream in the US: 8chan, Trump, voter suppression===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/11/el-paso-shooting-white-supremacy-8chan-voter-suppression The Guardian 8/10/2019] | |||
"Law professor Ian Samuel explained, in relation to Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation – Trump’s first appointment – that it was the first time “a president who lost the popular vote had a supreme court nominee confirmed by senators who received fewer votes – nearly 22m fewer – than the senators that voted against him”. | |||
For his second pick, Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s choice to replace the moderate Anthony Kennedy, the senators who voted against him represented 38 million more people than the ones who voted to confirm." | |||
As Jamelle Bouie noted in the New York Times: “Today, the largest state is California, with nearly 40 million residents, and the smallest is Wyoming, with just under 600,000 people, a disparity that gives a person in Wyoming 67 times the voting power of one in California. | |||
=====The Way the Census Counts Prison Populations Seriously Distorts Redistricting===== | =====The Way the Census Counts Prison Populations Seriously Distorts Redistricting===== | ||
[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/census-prison-count-distorts-redistricting-gerrymandering.html Slate 7/19/2019] | [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/census-prison-count-distorts-redistricting-gerrymandering.html Slate 7/19/2019] | ||
