On March 26, the Census Bureau is slated to release its annual update to population estimates for counties and metropolitan areas, including components of change.
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On March 26, the Census Bureau is slated to release its annual update to population estimates for counties and metropolitan areas, including components of change.
Chinese EV maker BYD’s new Blade batteries have a 5-minute charging time and 621-mile range.
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The New York tabloids’ take on the Noem firing.
The Wisconsin Capitol in the fog
But since then, D performance in the 224 smaller counties has fallen off and been a big contributor to Ds’ electoral struggles.
In recent years, Democrats in Texas have done quite well in the state’s 30 largest counties, where around 8 in 10 Texas voters live.
On the other hand, they get shellacked in the state’s remaining 224 counties. O’Rourke got nearly 27% of the vote there in 2018 and kept it close.
Trigger laws enabled some states to ban abortion the second the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Now Virginia is considering one that would limit political spending if the Court ever overturns Citizen United. bit.ly/3OYOEOV
Lev Parnas (yes, that Lev Parnas) is running for Congress in FL-27.
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A further update: Congressman Burgess Owens (UT-04), who is one of the plaintiffs in the GOP suit to block the new congressional map, has announced that he is not running for re-election.
However, the court is reserving judgment on whether the amendment was properly enacted by the legislature. Today’s ruling just allows the vote to go forward.
The Virginia Supreme Court has cleared the way for the April 21 vote on the redistricting amendment to go forward, lifting a lower court injunction.
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Despite suggesting during briefing that they would take their map challenge to SCOTUS, Utah Republicans have not yet taken any steps to do that. (The federal district court denied their request for an injunction on 2/23, a week and a half ago.)
The one exception is Florida, which has a longer runway and already has a redistricting special session set for April 20-24 with the ostensible purpose of responding to Callais - but Callais might not be out by then either.
States, of course, could always move or redo primaries or hold special elections, but that's something they generally are reluctant to do. Unpopular with both election administrators and candidates.
With Callais not out yet & no opinion likely until late March at the earliest, it is becoming functionally too late for most southern states to redraw maps.
By the end of March, primaries will have happened in TX, NC, & MS & mail ballots will go out shortly after in AL, GA, and LA.
The court could always add an opinion day, of course, but that would be unusual.
I badly need a haircut, and the only appointment I could get was over the lunch hour, so I would personally like to thank SCOTUS for not issuing Callais today.
Two opinions today from SCOTUS, neither of which was Callais.
After today, the court is not back on the bench until March 20.
SCOTUSblog reporting a one-box day and that the box “looked light” - which, if correct, suggests probably not Callais. But 🤷🏻♂️
Notice that Dem primary voting in TX is much more predictable based on geography than GOP primary voting.
Racial demographics structure Dem primaries & Americans are geographically segregated by race, so...
This is something Gall Sigler & I wrote about in the paper flagged 👇.
Today, in every vote counts
All said, it’s pretty cool to see Texas politics the center of national attention tonight.
It also could have been worse . . .
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Tired: Waiting for special election results.
Wired: Waiting for 2026 primary results.
By the sound of it, by forcing a return to precinct-based Election Day voting Republicans in Dallas County have created a lot of confusion for voters of *both parties.* 🤦🏻♂️
Screenshot of excerpt from opinion that reads: "Despite this, the New York courts refused to stay the trial court’s order. After that highly questionable injunction was issued, the applicants filed appeals in both the Appellate Division (the State’s intermediate appellate court) and the Court of Appeals (its highest court) challenging the trial court’s order on federal constitutional grounds. At the same time, applicants asked both courts to stay the trial court’s order. The Appellate Division refused to issue a stay, and by order issued on February 11, the Court of Appeals sent the appeal filed in that court to the Appellate Division and dismissed applicants’ motions for a stay."
![With nowhere else to turn, the applicants asked us to issue a stay, and we have jurisdiction to entertain their application. Title 28 U. S. C. §1257(a) gives us jurisdiction to review “[f]inal judgments or decrees” that are rendered by a State’s highest court and adjudicate federal constitutional claims, and the Court of Appeals’ February 11 order falls
within that category.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreibhhdcymq4dbg2pzqxsntooytqznjfgrztweju4jb5kdbqpsy6okq@jpeg)
With nowhere else to turn, the applicants asked us to issue a stay, and we have jurisdiction to entertain their application. Title 28 U. S. C. §1257(a) gives us jurisdiction to review “[f]inal judgments or decrees” that are rendered by a State’s highest court and adjudicate federal constitutional claims, and the Court of Appeals’ February 11 order falls within that category.
1/9: In the New York redistricting case, Justice Alito's justification for why #SCOTUS even had *jurisdiction* to issue a stay is based upon a remarkably misleading portrayal of the state court proceedings.
I realize this is technical, but I wanted to write a short thread to explain the shadiness:
Poll closing times for today’s primaries:
*North Carolina: 7:30 pm ET
*Texas: 7:00 pm CT/8:00 pm ET (except in El Paso, which is MT & closes one hour later)
*Arkansas: 7:30 pm CT/8:30 pm ET
The next cover of the New Yorker, featuring Kadir Nelson’s “Cold Chill”
