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 The Supreme Court to Vote on Gerrymandering
by Louis DeBroux
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 Georgia 'Deplorables' Tossoff Ossoff 
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Republican Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in Tuesday's special election for Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, in what was both the most expensive and most watched congressional campaign in history. The victory is astounding given the "pollaganda effect" — the heavy media coverage in the last two weeks giving Ossoff the lead. It's a replay of how wrong the DemoMSM propagandists were in 2016.
          Astoundingly, there was more than $50 million spent in this election by the candidates and special interest groups — $20 million more than the previous congressional record. Ossoff, who collected most of his funding from rich liberals in California and Massachusetts, outspent Handel 7-1 — and still couldn't pull it off.
          Democrats insisted, right up until Handel's victory, that this election was a referendum on Donald Trump, but it is more a referendum on the Democrats' failure to understand Americans outside the Beltway and their elitist East Coast urban centers. Yes, this was Dr. Tom Price's district (now Trump's HHS Secretary), but if this was just about Trump, his low approval rating should have opened the door wide for a Democrat win — especially given that Trump only won the district by a narrow 1.5% margin last year. But Handel defeated Ossoff with a 5% margin — so much for the Democrats' blustering about "narrowing victory margins."
          Political commentator Tucker Carlson nailed it: "Democrats still have no idea why they keep losing elections. If they did, they would have run a real candidate, with a real job who understands the constituents he is attempting to represent."
          Meanwhile, in a little watched House election in South Carolina, Republican Ralph Normal defeated Democrat Archie Parnell. Demos are now 0 for 4 in special elections since 2016.  ~The Patriot Post
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Schiff Questioning Of Johnson Results
In Endorsement Of Prosecuting liar-Clinton
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It’s not yet clear what the objective was for trotting out Jihadi Jeh Johnson, after Hussein liar-nObama the man most responsible for opening up our borders and infiltrating America with dangerous foreigners... before the House Intelligence Committee. It’s a safe bet it had something to do with shoring up the rapidly disintegrating claim that Russia and the Trump campaign colluded in the 2016 election but beyond that things are still a little murky. They reintroduced into the narrative via Johnson the old news that the liar-Clinton campaign had refused to allow the FBI to inspect their supposedly hacked hard drives. Perhaps now they’ve been sufficiently bleachbitted or hit with a hammer enough times that the Dems feel more comfortable with the FBI possibly getting access. Is there a reason they need to reinforce the credibility of the FBI at the expense of the DNC? Whatever the actual purpose of Johnson’s visit, we can be certain it was not for the benefit of the administration or the American people. It’s a political exercise for the Democrats and establishment deep state in some way...http://rickwells.us/schiff-questioning-johnson-results-endorsement-prosecuting-clinton/
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Foreign Soros-Backed Media Outlet
Bashes Conservatives With US Taxpayer Dollars
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by Mike Gonzalez
{dailysignal.com} ~ For additional proof that the State Department has no business teaming up overseas with the vast network funded by the billionaire George Soros... look no further than the portentously named Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. The OCCRP calls itself “an investigative reporting platform formed by 24 nonprofit investigative centers … spread across Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.” In words that could have come from John Lennon’s “Imagine,” its website further states: “Our organization doesn’t belong to any country, political philosophy or set of beliefs.” It is, however, almost fully funded by Soros, a financier with a penchant for subsidizing radical causes around the world—with assistance from our own State Department...This got to stop, AG Session. http://dailysignal.com/2017/06/21/foreign-soros-backed-media-outlet-bashes-conservatives-us-taxpayer-dollars/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUdZM01EZzVOelF6TnpobSIsInQiOiJoNUVkU2NSWHNUMXoyYXpBQ1N0QU1oTmh6d3cxTGlEV3pqVTJFMTRqSzE1WHhkTTMrbVRLNzQ4dWhkczkrUGp4Z3dDcHRtdTZlNlQyNCsxclwvMXpHKzZOck9yb1MwdldwTUNZWmFQaTlNSDdaQmpJdmZIRVJpd3BCaGtHWHJHZ28ifQ%3D%3D
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Homeland Security: Russia Targeted
21 States in 2016, Changed No Votes
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by Fred Lucas
{dailysignal.com} ~ Russians hacked or attempted to hack into election systems in 21 states, Department of Homeland Security officials confirmed to a Senate panel Wednesday, but stressed this didn’t affect any election outcomes... However, federal officials would not disclose which states were victims of hacking attempts, other than Arizona and Illinois, which were revealed last year to have been attacked. State election officials, later testifying to the same panel, wanted more information from the federal government. Also, a top FBI official told the panel Russia has interfered in U.S. elections since the Cold War. “We determined that internet-connected election-related networks in 21 states were potentially targeted by Russian government cyber actors. It is important to note that none of these systems were involved in vote tallying,” Samuel Liles, acting director of the cyber division for the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis, told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence... http://dailysignal.com/2017/06/21/dhs-russia-targeted-21-states-2016-changed-no-votes?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUdZM01EZzVOelF6TnpobSIsInQiOiJoNUVkU2NSWHNUMXoyYXpBQ1N0QU1oTmh6d3cxTGlEV3pqVTJFMTRqSzE1WHhkTTMrbVRLNzQ4dWhkczkrUGp4Z3dDcHRtdTZlNlQyNCsxclwvMXpHKzZOck9yb1MwdldwTUNZWmFQaTlNSDdaQmpJdmZIRVJpd3BCaGtHWHJHZ28ifQ%3D%3D
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Iran Threatens to ‘Depose’ Trump as
Military Readies Missile Strikes on U.S. Forces
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by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ A senior Iranian leader and confidant of the Islamic Republic's president is threatening to "depose" President Donald Trump if he continues his policy of confronting Iran and its terror proxy groups in the Middle East... according to recent comments that come as Iranian military leaders threaten missile strikes on U.S. forces and bases in the region. Mostafa Tajzadeh, a leading Iranian politician and ally to President Hassan Rouhani, claimed this week that the Trump administration is too "fragile" to confront Iran and that if U.S. officials do "anything unwise against Iran," the Islamic Republic will see that Trump is "deposed," according to Farsi-language comments independently translated for the Washington Free Beacon... Their in for a rude awaking.  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-threatens-depose-trump-military-readies-missile-strikes-u-s-forces/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=7b23285368-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-7b23285368-45611665
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Proof – CNN, Tapper, Dems LIE About
FBI, DNC Server – BUSTED By Trump, Others
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ CNN Fake News is at it again, now enlisting a corrupt Democrat Congresswoman, Jackie Speier, to provide some semblance of legitimacy to the lie they’re about to tell... It’s a fake news story that their “crack anchor” and “expert” on all things political, Jake Tapper, never knew about until today’s testimony from former DHS Secretary Jihadi Jeh Johnson. This lie is that they never knew the DNC had refused to allow the FBI to investigate their supposedly hacked server. That was common knowledge as the story unfolded, with this writer having written a piece on it on January 6th of this year, somehow managing to learn of the refusal despite not having the connections of the forgetful Mr. Tapper and company. He certainly was aware of it and for some reason they’re now trying to paint a different picture. Rep Jackie Speier offers the lamest of opposing arguments, claiming that she talked to Debbie Wasserman Schultz after the Johnson pony show and she told her that nobody within the FBI ever offered to look at the server...http://rickwells.us/proof-cnn-tapper-dems-lie-fbi-dnc-server-busted-trump-others/
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 The Supreme Court to Vote on Gerrymandering 
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By Louis DeBroux:  In somewhat of a surprise announcement, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a Wisconsin case to determine whether gerrymandered congressional district maps violate the Constitution's 1st and 14th Amendments. The Court has traditionally avoided such cases, deeming them the purview of the political branches. The outcome could have a tremendous impact on the American electoral process.
          Those who are not political or history wonks may be unfamiliar with the term "gerrymandering." The term was first used in the March 26, 1812, edition of the Boston Gazette. A portmanteau of "Gerry" and "salamander," it was used to describe the Massachusetts state Senate districts that were drawn by the Democratic-Republicans under Governor Elbridge Gerry, in which his party successfully created election districts that stayed in his party's hands despite losing the state House and governorship. One of these districts resembled the shape of the mythical salamander.
          In the Wisconsin case, a dozen plaintiffs from across the state claimed "Republican legislative leaders authorized a secretive and exclusionary mapmaking process aimed at securing for their party a large advantage that would persist no matter what happened in future elections." A three-judge panel ruled last year in the plaintiffs' favor, declaring the Republican redistricting plan was partisan enough to effectively disenfranchise some voters. The state of Wisconsin has appealed this ruling to the Supreme Court.
          Notably, this case was not brought before the federal courts until July 2015, after Republicans had taken control of state government from the Democrats. Wisconsin has long been a Democrat stronghold which, until Donald Trump narrowly won in 2016, had not voted for a Republican for president since Ronald Reagan won the state. Wisconsin's state-level gains for the GOP are a microcosm of America generally, where Republicans made tremendous advances. During Barack liar-nObama's disastrous tenure, the GOP picked up nearly a thousand state legislative seats, control of two-thirds of state legislative chambers, 63 House seats, and 10 U.S. Senate seats. The Democrat Party is at its weakest electoral position in nearly a century, and is desperate for a way to reverse these losses.
          The courts have largely refused to intervene in gerrymandering disputes in the past, primarily because the drawing of such districts is an inherently political act. For the courts to intervene would be to substitute the opinion of the judiciary for the opinion of the elected branches. As Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter warned in Colegrove v. Green (1946), "Courts ought not to enter this political thicket. ... The fulfillment of this duty cannot be judicially enforced."
          When the Court has chosen to invalidate redistricting lines in the past, it has generally done so based on the claim that the lines in question disenfranchise minority voters — that was the case just last month with two North Carolina districts. However, these cases have been few and far between. In the other most recent case — 2004's Vieth v. Jubelirer — a 5-4 majority rejected plaintiffs' claims, unable to delineate where normal "to the victor goes the spoils" redistricting stopped and disenfranchisement began.
          Interestingly, members of the minority party often work with the majority in gerrymandering districts. While the minority party will stay in the minority, its members are drawn into increasingly safe districts, protecting them from general election challenges.
          It should also be noted that both parties have engaged in such gerrymandering for more than two centuries. Even now, in addition to the Wisconsin case, a challenge to the congressional districts drawn by Maryland's Democrats is being heard by the lower courts.
          Gerrymandering doesn't always work out for the victors though. Following the 2000 census, Georgia Democrats — with absolute control of state government since Reconstruction — gerrymandered congressional districts so "nakedly partisan" a three-judge panel modified them. In 2002, voters, furious at Democrats, elected Republican Sonny Perdue as governor, and awarded the state Senate to Republicans. The next election saw Republicans win the House. Republicans now hold supermajorities in the state House and Senate, and control every constitutional office in the state.
          In these gerrymandering challenges, a move is being made to have the courts strip the power to draw districts from the elected branches and hand it to an independent panel, such as a board of retired judges equally representing both parties. Both sides have valid arguments.
          On the one hand, gerrymandering has led to safely partisan but politically polarized districts where both parties tend to cater to their base. This has made it increasingly difficult for parties to find common ground on any issues. While the Republican Party has its share of moderates, it is generally a conservative party. The Democrat Party is even more partisan, and virtually no politician supporting tax or spending cuts, or declaring themselves pro-life, can expect to survive long in that party.
          On the other hand, the Constitution grants power to draw district lines exclusively to the elected branches, and to change the foundational structure of our government is not to be taken lightly. 
~The Patriot Post
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