Given today’s implicit approval by the Supreme Court of the redrawing of Congressional district lines in mid-decade, rather than shortly after the decennial census, will there be a spate of map-drawing every time a state legislature changes hands from one party to another? “Some people are predicting a rash of mid-decade redistricting. I am skeptical,” …

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I finished Glenn Greenwald’s book, “How Would a Patriot Act?”. I didn’t learn anything new, but then I’m not the target audience. The audience is the non-blog-reading public. It’s a well-crafted and careful exposition of how the Bush Administration has deliberately broken constitutional law in various actions it’s taken, from the complete bypassing of the …

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