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Jackie Gardina
@jackiegardina.bsky.social
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Higher ed supporter, podcast host, and a law and politics junkie with a social justice focus. *All opinions are my own
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@jamellebouie.net for Congress! (I was going to say president but we are working on removing power from the Executive Branch).
November 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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I love that you are raising kids who think of others....not their parents obviously, but still.
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Didn't he write it based on a house he would pass as a mail carrier?
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Chris are you seeing in action in states to challenge Obergefell through other means? I have no doubt that opponents have a strategy, I just don't know who far along they are.
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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The Supreme Court did grant review of one case today, Watson v. Republican National Committee, and it's a big one over state laws allowing the counting of ballots cast by Election Day but received after Election Day.

Here's the docket: www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

And question presented:
QUESTION PRESENTED The federal election-day statutes-2 U.S.C. § 7, 2 U.S.C. § 1, and 3 U.S.C. § 1-set the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in certain years as the "election" day for federal offices. Like all other States, Mississippi requires that ballots for federal offices be cast-marked and submitted to election officials—by that day. And like most other States, Mississippi allows some of those timely cast ballots (mail-in absentee ballots, in Mississippi's case) to be counted if they are received by election officials a short time after election day (in Mississippi, within 5 business days after election day). Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-637(1)(a). In the decision below, the Fifth Circuit held that the federal election-day statutes require that ballots be both cast by voters and received by election officials by election day and thus preempt Mississippi's law. The question presented is whether the federal election-day statutes preempt a state law that allows ballots that are cast by federal election day to be received by election officials after that day.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM