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🚨 DOJ sues NC over its voter rolls—claiming they lack proper ID info.

What’s really happening? A stealth move to justify purging voters from the rolls.

This isn’t about “clean elections.” It’s about removing people who don’t vote the way authoritarians want.

This is voter suppression wrapped in bureaucracy.

Link: abc11.com/post/nc-voter-list-n

The Electoral College was crafted to limit democracy, protect slaveholding power, and insulate elites from voters. In my latest post, I unpack how it came to be, what the framers feared, and why its logic never really made sense for a free society. #AmericanHistory #ElectoralCollege #ConstitutionalLaw #VotingRights #Slavery

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James HowardThe Electoral College was Designed to Disenfranchise
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This is a few days old, but too important not to post.
“A panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down one of the key remaining ways of enforcing the federal Voting Rights Act in seven mainly Midwestern states.”
#Democracy #VotingRights

npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-51655

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The ruling, filed w/the court clerk on Mon, will require Mayes to assemble a grand jury to present the case along with a copy of the #ElectoralCountAct, attys said. The initial presentation of her case took weeks. Mayes plans to appeal to try to get the prosecution back on track.

“We vehemently disagree with the court, & we will file a special action to appeal the ruling,” Mayes spox said.

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“We are extremely pleased with the court’s ruling, & we think the judge got it exactly right,” said Stephen Binhak, the attorney who spearheaded the effort to get the case back to a grand jury.

The decision is a major setback for #Arizona AG Kris Mayes (D), who promised to appeal the ruling so she could keep the prosecution going.