Okay, POP QUIZ! Ready?
If do entary evidence emerges to prove that your client lied to the court, should you:
A. Attempt to amend your testimony and throw yourself on the mercy of the court?
B. Loudly insist that those do ents are PRIVILEGED and accuse your opponent of professional misconduct?
Pencils down! If you are a sane person, the answer is A. But if you and your clients are Republicans, the answer is B, any day of the week and twice on Sundays. And so we find ourselves in yet another day of legal bat tery in the Trump era. TGIF!
As Slate's Mark Joseph Stern reported, the continuing fallout from deceased GOP rat er Thomas Hofeller's hard drives has now produced evidence that Republican legislators in North Carolina may have told one or two wee fibbies to the federal judge in North Carolina back in 2017. After a unanimous Supreme Court tossed 28 of North Carolina's districts for being illegal gerrymanders in Covington v. North Carolina -- how racist do you have to be for Thomas and Alito to be like NAH BRAH? -- the defendants told the judge in August 2017 that they could not possibly make a new, not-racist map in time for a special election for the state legislature that year, because these things take time, and, like, they'd been too busy to even think about getting started. In fact, David Lewis, the North Carolina representative responsible for redistricting, specifically told the court, "I have not yet drawn maps nor have I directed that maps be drawn, nor am I aware of any other en y operating in conjunction with the leadership that has drawn maps." And North Carolina State Senator Ralph Hise, Jr., even promised the court that "Race was not part of the database. It could not be calculated on the system[.]"
Except then Thomas Hofeller died in July 2018, and his daughter Stephanie dug up the digital proof that literally none of that was true. In reality, Hofeller had been working on the maps for months, they were substantially complete by June 2017 so that a new special election could have occurred, and Hofeller had the race data and used it to draw the new North Carolina legislative maps.
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https://www.wonkette.com/north-carol...erjury-ooopsie
"unanimous Supreme Court tossed 28 of North Carolina's districts for being illegal gerrymanders in Covington v. North Carolina"
This will be another case where the Repugs say, effectively, You, the Law, we gonna do what we want to win
What is the penalty, enforced by whom, for, eg, NC telling SCOTUS to off?
I expect the oligarchy SCOTUS5 to ignore "GOP rat er Thomas Hofeller's" work because it was discovered after the citizenship question was argued before them, and to approve the Census mod, also ignoring how Ross violated all procedures for changing the census forms.
Barr said Hofeller paid no role in the census business, but somehow he got paid $2M for his non-role.
Looks like the lie was worth it.
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