Matt Cohen
@mattdcohen
Senior Reporter @DemocracyDocket.com, covering voting rights, far-right extremism and threats to democracy (lol). Collector of records, plants, tattoos, horror movies.
I know it's so minor in the grand scheme of [waves hand] all these terrible things happening, but sheer idiocy of Mamdani TemperatureGate is actually breaking me
as soon as i stepped in my door from the office today the power went out and the estimated time for it to come back is 7am tomorrow… jesus christ why????? 😭😭😭
Now they are reading through the entire bill, out loud, which is poised to take like 2-3 hours to get through lmao. Lawmakers are losing it.
Been seeing a lot of right-wing chatter and (perhaps intentional) misinformation about how South Carolina can still redistrict even after yesterday’s vote. @iamnickreynolds.bsky.social, an ace SC statehouse reporter, broke down why that is very unlikely over on X, which i’m just gonna share here.
GOP SC House Rep seems to think that the NO votes have enough to sink South Carolina's redistricting efforts. We'll see. Right now, Senate is considering amendments to the sine die resolution. Any amendment that passes would send the resolution back to House, effectively delaying redistricting.
SC Senate convening now to vote on redistricting. Reminder: Needs 2/3rds vote in order to move forward with the measure, meaning if just four Republicans vote against redistricting, effort dies. As of 3 hours ago, Nancy Mace said there are at least 5 GOP holdouts. Make of that as you will.
Update in the SC House: Judiciary Committee in recess after Dems gave speeches to delay vote on the new map. Heard some commotion on the stream and turns out, per SC statehouse reporter, someone was removed by law enforcement for cussing out the committee lol.
So i’m in New Orleans for Jazz Fest. Talked to a few people who are mourning yesterday’s devastating Callais decision. This guy is out here handing out buttons and telling folks we need to save democracy.
Lmao, Unite4Freedom is absolutely crashing out over on the hell site over this article I wrote about them yesterday: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...