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With new judges at the top of the judiciary in both New York and Wisconsin, Democrats are hoping to file lawsuits so that legislative district maps can be redrawn ahead of the 2024 election boosting their odds of retaking the House and making Representative Hakeem Jeffries the next speaker.

In the Empire State, the New York Court of Appeals struck down the legislatures district maps for 2022, saying that the process by which they were drawn violated the state constitution. The case, Harkenrider v. Hochul, created a host of competitive districts that would eventually swing to the Republicans last November.

A former congressman who was deeply involved in the Harkenrider case, John Faso, told the Sun that suing to redraw the maps is clearly an attempt by the Democrats to get a do-over because they lost last year.

A new case pending in the lower courts, Hoffman v. Independent Redistricting Commission, argues that the Harkenrider case only applied to the 2022 elections and the maps should be withdrawn before next year. Mr. Faso said that is a very dubious theory and patently absurd.

We believe our case is strong and that the Harkenrider case is very explicit, Mr. Faso said about their ongoing defense of the district maps.

On April 7, Governor Hochul and New Yorks attorney general, Letitia James, filed an amicus brief in the Hoffman case, saying that New Yorkers deserved to have their district maps drawn by elected representatives, not the courts.

Our states Constitution makes it clear that an independent body, with participation from the general public, is charged with drawing maps for Congressional districts, Ms. James said in a statement. Relying on a process with no accountability and with limited time for public input is not how we engage the public.

One of the lead plaintiff attorneys in the Harkenrider case, George Winner, told the Sun that Democrats are making the cynical move to reinstate their outrageous gerrymander.

Ms. Hochul recently announced the nomination of an appellate court associate judge, Rowan Wilson, to become chief judge. Ms. Hochul also nominated a former state solicitor general, Caitlin Halligan, to succeed Judge Wilson as an associate on the bench. The nomination of these two liberals following the defeat of the more conservative Judge Hector LaSalle to be chief judge has some hoping that redistricting can be returned to the legislature, where Democrats can unilaterally control the process.

Mr. Winner said it is a real possibility that the current maps are struck down and Harkenrider is overturned. The nominations raise the prospect that the case could reach the court of appeals and result in turning the 2024 congressional races district maps over to the Independent Redistricting Commission, the body that recommends maps to the state legislature. Those maps, though, are not binding. It would be a rather egregious result, Mr. Winner said.

Judge LaSalle was rejected by the state senate in February because of his more conservative positions on abortion rights and labor unions. Mr. Winner said a lack of clarity on how Judge LaSalle would rule on overturning the maps likely led many Democratic state senators to vote against his confirmation.

Activists in Wisconsin are also looking to redraw what they see as unfair maps. On April 4, a liberal Milwaukee judge, Janet Protasiewicz, flipped a seat on the Wisconsin supreme court to make the body a 43 liberal majority.

Justice-elect Protasiewicz said explicitly during her campaign that Republicans had gerrymandered the state so aggressively that they have made themselves a permanent majority in both the state legislature and in the U.S. House elections. So thats when I say, yes, those maps are rigged, Judge Protasiezwicz said during a debate.

The conservative majority on the Wisconsin supreme court twice declined to redraw the Republican gerrymander. In both 2021 and 2022, in 43 decisions, the justices handed the GOP major wins something Judge Protasiezwicz said was a mistake.

According to the Capital Times, a progressive legal advocacy group based in Milwaukee, Law Forward, plans to file a lawsuit challenging the maps on the day Judge Protasiewicz is sworn in as an associate justice.

Wisconsin is the most gerrymandered state in the country, a former U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder, said at a rally with Judge Protasiewicz before the election. When you get compared to Texas when it comes to electoral things, thats not a good thing, Mr. Holder said.

Mr. Faso said the more competitive maps that New York adopted create a more vibrant democratic culture in the state, forcing representatives to listen to their constituents more intently than if they were in highly partisan districts. In the original Democratic gerrymander, New York would have 22 Democratic-favoring seats and just four Republican-leaning seats.

With just a four-seat majority in the U.S. House, Speaker McCarthys job is very much on the line as these cases come before New Yorks and Wisconsins top judges.

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It seems Nancy Pelosi never knew or just forgot that in this country Trump is innocent till proven guilty,and not as she said this trial will give Trump a chance to prove he is innocent . When she says no one is above the law she means except Democrats. They use this phrase when talking about Trump, but not when talking about Bill Clinton when he committed perjury under oath. Democrats said it was the puritanical conservatives over a trumped up charge of sex. Nothing happened. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. Hillary Clinton used an illegal private server and destroyed 33,000 emails. Nothing happened. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. Jim Clapper lied to congress about spying on the American people. Nothing happened.

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. John Brenan then lied about domestic spying. Nothing happened. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. Unlike Trumps, advisor Peter Navarro, Obamas Attorney General Eric Holder was never arrested for ignoring a congressional subpoena. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. This is just a tip of the iceberg. If AG Bragg has 34 counts against Trump then why are we waiting until early December. Maybe to influence the upcoming election? Dont think thats what the

founders meant when they included speedy trial. (Jan 6 defendants know about that. ) By the way, what ever happened to the man who attacked Pelosis husband?

In the past few months we have had several train derailments. Some of them had hazardous materials. Am I the only one who thinks this could well be the work of extreme activists? It doesnt take a genius (which none of them are) to weaken a section of track.

Randy Mavencamp

Maple Lake

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Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will campaign for Janet Protasiewicz in the final days of the closely watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race, a spokesperson for Holders group, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, told NBC News.

Holder, whose group pushes for congressional and legislative maps that favor Democrats and tackles gerrymandered maps that favor Republicans, will travel to Wisconsin in the days leading up to the April 4 election to help get out the vote for Protasiewicz, Brooke Lillard, a spokesperson for the group, said.

The Protasiewicz campaign and Holder, who served as former President Barack Obama's attorney general for most of his eight years in office, are still finalizing specific venues and dates for the appearances, Lillard said. A spokesperson for the Protasiewicz campaign directed questions from NBC News to the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.

Holders visit will come during the final days of a contest that will determine ideological control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and with it, the future of prominent issues like abortion rights and election laws.

Another top issue in the officially nonpartisan race has been how the two candidates would rule in cases involving the states Republican-drawn legislative maps.

The current map, which experts have said is one of the most gerrymandered in the country, was approved by the current state Supreme Court last year. As is the case in many states, in Wisconsin, if the governor and the Legislature cannot agree on legislative maps, the issue falls to the state Supreme Court.

Protasiewicz, the liberal candidate in the race, has throughout her campaign called the maps "rigged." Her conservative opponent Daniel Kelly has criticized her for telegraphing how shed rule on important cases.

The contest has already become the most expensive state Supreme Court race in U.S. history. Protasiewicz, along with outside groups supporting her, including the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, has massively outspent Kelly and outside groups supporting him.

Both candidates are running to replace Justice Patience Roggensack, a member of the courts 4-3 conservative majority. A win by Kelly, a former state Supreme Court justice who lost his seat in a 2020 election to liberal Jill Karofsky, would retain conservative control of the court, while a win by Protasiewicz, a Milwaukee County circuit judge, would result in a liberal majority for the first time in 15 years.

Adam Edelman is a political reporter for NBC News.

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A former cop has claimed that the murder of Crenshaw rapper Nipsey Husslein 2019 could have been orchestrated by the LAPD.

In a new interview withComedy Hypepodcast on March 15, Bernard Robins, an ex-officer of the Los Angeles Police Department, discussed the February sentencing of Nipseys killer, Eric Holder Jr., while giving insight into the LAPD's less-than-stellar track record.

Robins suggested they very well could have been behind the murder of the rap legend, who had previously been affiliated with the Rollin 60s, an LA-area gang that is connected to the Crips.

Despite his previous affiliation, Nipsey seemed to have distanced himself from the gang in recent years, instead focusing on community activism through a number of efforts in inner-city Los Angeles - though Robins noted that it didn't stop the LAPD as seeing him as just a "gang member".

Asked if he believed more people could have been involved in Nipsey's death, including police, Robins didn't hold back.

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I think that there could have been, he began. Ive never witnessed any law enforcement officers say that there was something going on or even eluded to it. But theres that possibility.

We know a lot of the positive things that he was doing in the community. So, theres definitely that possibility that they were that determined to stop what he had going, that they probably could have sent [Eric Holder Jr.] to go and do that.

Robins also pointed out allegations that Holder had also been a police informant, which certainly casts further uncertainty over the entire situation.

He continued: I think also that they said [Eric] was an informant for law enforcement. That was a part of the issue that he had with Nipsey Hussle allegedly so we dont know. We dont know what was going on behind those closed doors.

"It could have been a bad day for Holder and he was mad, or it could have been something deeper behind it that caused Nipsey to lose his life."

Holder was sentenced to 60 years behind bars in February 2023 for the shooting death of Nipsey on March 31, 2019, outside his Marathon Clothing store in South Central Los Angeles after the sentencing had been delayed following his conviction by a grand jury in July 2022.

During the proceedings, it was revealed that Holder had been angered over Nipsey labelling him as a "snitch".

Nipsey was like, Man, you know, they got some paperwork on you, you know. I havent read it, you know. Like you my bro, you know. Like maybe you need to take care of that, you know, a witness told the grand jury in 2019.

Holder then returned to the scene and shot the rapper 11 times.

Nipsey's death sparked an outpouring of grief among the hip-hop and his local community, with many reflecting on the legacy he left behind not just as an artist, but as a philanthropist who worked hard to better his own community and the people within it.

Among just some of his charitable acts included buying shoes for school students in Hyde Park, repaving basketball courts, renovating playgrounds, providing jobs for the homeless, and funding funerals for local families and victims of gun violence.

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Far-right broadcaster Pete Santilli called on members of the military to execute former President Barack Obama, former Attorney General Eric Holder, and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice if former President Donald Trump is arrested.

Trump in a lengthy rant on Truth Social over the weekend claimed he would be arrested in connection to the Manhattan district attorney's investigation into hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the final stretch of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Santilli responded on his show by calling for Trump's supporters in the military to rise up and round up Obama and his former administration officials and shoot them against a "concrete wall."

"Get the military, whatever few are left that are gonna side with the people. You military personnel and you people with guns and badges and law enforcement will succumb to the will of the people," Santilli said in a clip flagged by Right Wing Watch.

"And ultimately, we demand, we absolutely demand that the criminals, the criminals in this country, if you want them held accountable, the criminals are Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Susan Rice," he continued. "This entire criminal cabal that came about as a result of the murder of John F. Kennedy, the people that perpetrated the murder of John F. Kennedy, rise up to that."

"Military, join us and put all of them up against a concrete wall...and do what we must do to save not just our country, the entire world," he pleaded.

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