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Here’s the legal issue at stake in the Wisconsin redistricting decision

2 years 6 months ago
As you probably know, a Democrat recently won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, giving them a majority. They immediately took up a lawsuit challenging the state's infamously gerrymandered legislative maps and ruled yesterday that the maps had to be redrawn. Bob Somerby is confused by what happened, and that naturally got me curious. It ...continue reading "Here’s the legal issue at stake in the Wisconsin redistricting decision"
Kevin Drum

Israel strikes 2 homes, killing more than 90 Palestinians. Biden says he didn't request a cease-fire

2 years 6 months ago
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 90 Palestinians, including dozens from an extended family, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on two homes in Gaza, rescuers and hospital officials said Saturday, a day after the U.N. chief warned that nowhere is safe in the territory and that Israel’s offensive creates “massive obstacles” to distribution of [...]
NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY, Associated Press

This Week In Techdirt History: December 17th – 23rd

2 years 6 months ago
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, a bunch of entertainment industry lobbyists were given a chance to pay $5000 to attend the Grammys with two congressmen, an appeals court handed another loss to MP3 reseller ReDigi, and copyright lobbyists were failing to keep their story straight on the EU Copyright Directive (the problems of […]
Leigh Beadon