No need to be hasty

A federal court ruled that the Congressional districts in North Carolina were drawn for partisan advantage and must be redrawn. The state’s GOP appealed to the Supremes, who said, well you don’t need to do it now.

The lower court required an acceptable map be produced by the end of the month so that it could be used in electing representatives next November. With the hold from the Supremes, this year’s election will likely use the gerrymandered map.

As disappointing as that is to hear, the Supremes have a reason. They heard a gerrymandering case from Wisconsin and accepted one from Maryland. Wisconsin was told they didn’t have to redraw the maps until their case is decided (likely in June). If Wisconsin doesn’t have to draw their map until then, North Carolina doesn’t either.



The nasty guy’s administration is back to handing out licenses to discriminate. To make that easier a “division of conscience and religious freedom” has been created within the Office for Civil Rights in the US Health and Human Services Agency.

So the civil rights this office is to uphold are those of healthcare workers, not patients. And the standard for care is religious belief, not medicine. We know quite well who they intend to target.