{"id":36980,"date":"2019-07-06T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T16:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36980"},"modified":"2019-07-06T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T16:58:07","slug":"open-thread-7-6-2018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/06\/open-thread-7-6-2018-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/6\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I will be scarce next week, because I&#8217;m going to Madrona Studios with Anne from CCC for a look-see on Tuesday and going back to sign the lease on Thursday.&nbsp; My fingers, toes, and even my kitty dingles are all crossed.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy Day.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll stay in the saddle, if I can.&nbsp; If not, I&#8217;ll post a Personal Update.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:18 (average 5:19).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-07-06-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eppI-Z4Jbgk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dollemore\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jesse Dollemore Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The Key to Defeating Donald Trump in 2020 Can be Found in These THREE STATES!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/eppI-Z4Jbgk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree, Jesse, with the caveat that all 50 states are critically important. Because SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD) mandated Gerrymandering, whoever wins the state legislatures, controls most of the nation for the next decade. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3W7-ngmO_p8&amp;list=PLEnchy01WTPzU-Igq9JmbL09CWxcDjt0X&amp;index=29&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Country Joe McDonald &#8211; I-Feel-Like-I&#8217;m-Fixin&#8217;-To-Die Rag<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/3W7-ngmO_p8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I was there. I was singing. Ah! The Memories! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/07\/trump-administration-literally-tells-court-to-forget-about-previous-reason-it-wanted-to-include-citizenship-question\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: &#8230;<\/font>Calling the administration\u2019s court filing \u201can act of political chutzpah,\u201d elections law expert <a href=\"https:\/\/electionlawblog.org\/?p=106089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rick Hasen perfectly encapsulates what just happened<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justsecurity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DOJ.StatusReport.MD_.census.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new filing<\/a>, the Department of Justice has told the federal district court in Maryland considering whether the addition of the citizenship question on the census was done for reasons of racial animus that the government may still come forward with a reason for including the question. Further, the government argues that any new reason would have to be judged by its own terms, as the courts did in the travel ban case. It wants to stop all discovery of bad motives for the original decision as no longer relevant.  <\/p>\n<p>Hasen adds, \u201cmore importantly, DOJ is arguing for what Joshua Matz has termed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/takecareblog.com\/blog\/thoughts-on-the-chief-s-strategy-in-the-census-case\">animus cleansing<\/a>.\u201d Forget if we had discriminatory racial intent before in adding a question, DOJ argues, because any new decision would be fresh and pure. And because of this purity, there\u2019s no need to look whether the government had discriminatory intent to start with.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This judge won&#8217;t buy it, but will Roberts? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0706Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I will be scarce next week, because I&#8217;m going to Madrona Studios with Anne from CCC for a look-see on Tuesday and going back to sign the lease on Thursday.&nbsp; My fingers, toes, and even my kitty dingles are all crossed.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy Day.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/06\/open-thread-7-6-2018-2\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}