This long-running thread deserves a new entry, but frankly I’m too tired to put something together, so here’s Stephen Wolf of The Daily Kos instead:
In a critical victory for fair elections and the rule of law, North Carolina voters have elected civil rights crusader Anita Earls as the next Democratic justice of the state Supreme Court. Just as importantly, voters rejected two deceptively written constitutional amendments that Republicans had put on the ballot so they could pack that very same court to stop it from curtailing their worst-in-the-nation gerrymandering and voter suppression. Furthermore, voters rejected Republican legislators’ ploy to usurp Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s power to appoint the state Board of Elections in their quest to prevent Democrats from expanding early voting.
See the link for more progressive jubilation, which I think is justified, given the toxicity of the North Carolina Republicans.
