This is serious. This is gravely serious for people. People fought, died, were tortured for the right to vote. And so the world needs to be watching this because what is happening today will happen to the rest of the country.

Hi there, everyone.

It's now 5 o'clock in New York.

Protesters in Tennessee today speaking out as the state legislators there advance a map

to carve the state's only majority African-American district into three majority white and

Republican pieces or districts.

It took just over a week for states to take up the Supreme Court's

invitation to launch an all-out assault on majority black districts after the nation's highest

court gave them free reign to unleash race-based gerrymanders all across the country.

A friend's at Democracy Docket report that South Carolina is not too far behind Tennessee

with South Carolina Republicans preparing to eliminate that state's only Democratic district,

which has been held by longtime Congressman Jim Clyburn.

It is just the latest in a series of warning signs that our courts may not be enough to protect

us against a conservative onslaught against democracy.

Late yesterday, a judge ruled against Fulton County, Georgia in its efforts to get the ballots

that Donald Trump's FBI seized earlier this year returned.

The judge described the events surrounding the Bureau's January raid on an election warehouse

in Fulton County, where Atlanta is located as, quote,

in many ways unprecedented and called some aspects of the investigation, including its reliance on previously debunked conspiracy theories, quote, troubling.

Judge wrote, quote, the seizure in this case was certainly not perfect, a Trump wrote the Trump appointed judge,

but the county had not shown that its rights were callously disregarded either through the lack of probable cause or by the manner of the execution of the seizure, he said.

Okay. That ruling clears the way for the Justice Department to move forward with this

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