Friends, I sat down earlier today for a live conversation with journalist and legal analyst Adam Klasfeld, author of All Rise News. It was a spirited discussion about the events of the day, including the corrupt Roberts Court hearing arguments today in Louisiana v. Callais. Adam published a piece earlier today about this important case for those who want to dive in deeper.
In his essay Adam links to a Politico article that reports:
Ahead of the court’s Oct. 15 rehearing of Louisiana v. Callais — a case that has major implications for the VRA — two voting rights groups are sounding the alarm, warning that eliminating Section 2, a provision that prohibits racial gerrymandering when it dilutes minority voting power, would let Republicans redraw up to 19 House seats to favor the party and crush minority representation in Congress.
The overturning of Section 2 could result in “up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus and 11 percent of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus” being drawn out of their seats, according to the report…
Republicans have long sought to dismantle this portion of the VRA, which generally prohibits race-based discrimination in voting laws and practices. The Supreme Court has previously rebuffed these arguments, but voting rights advocates are worried the Louisiana case will change that.
In our conversation I get to do a deep dive into the main topic of my last two Hopium posts (yesterday, this morning) - that there are signs Republicans are beginning to buckle under the growing weight of the many manifest failures of Trump’s agenda, his clear physical decline, and worsening unpopularity - and that we need to keep fighting him with everything we got.
Get to the conversation when you can. It’s good one. Adam has been working hard to shine a light on Trump’s unprecedented attack on our Constitutional order and I always enjoy when we get to spend time together.
To learn more about Adam here is how he describes himself and his work:
As a longtime legal journalist, I have witnessed the most historic court cases of a generation, including the moment when, after a courtroom rose for the jury, Donald Trump became a convicted felon. I’ve covered Trump’s criminal prosecutions, scores of his civil cases, and his impeachments, appearing every day for seven weeks to discuss his trial on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.
I’ve had a 360-degree view of the judiciary, covering state, federal and military courts internationally. Journalism allowed me to work with my heroes and appear on major print, digital, radio and TV outlets in the U.S. and globally, across the political spectrum. I strongly believe in the power of dispassionate reporting to defeat polarization by laying out facts, without commentary, from a detached distance.
But these days, I feel the need to do more. In an age of profound cynicism about our institutions, readers increasingly ask me a fundamental question about the legal beat: What is the point of these stories? All Rise News is our attempt at an answer, with a relentless focus on the relevance of every dispatch to your life, rights, and power to effect change.
Keep working hard all and looking forward to seeing paid subscribers tonight at 7pm ET……
