The Laboratories of Democracy

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Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' gets done, and where flowers are on the hillside, blooming crazy.

We begin in North Carolina, where the state legislature kicked some more dirt on the grave of the Voting Rights Act. From The New York Times:

The new map would likely give Republicans an extra House seat. The Republican-controlled legislature approved it just over a week after Phil Berger, the State Senate leader, and Destin Hall, the speaker of the State House of Representatives, said in a joint statement that they were taking action to protect President Trump’s agenda and safeguard Republican control of Congr

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