Please the court, id like quickly to try to reorient the court to marylands case, and then if i can, address some of the concerns that i heard in the argument that you just had. In this case, the court should reverse and vacate for three reasons. The First Amendment retaliation test that was adopted, a single test was used here, fails to provide a management standard because it does not give courts and legislators the means to distinguish between excessive Political Considerations and those deemed constitutionally acceptable. Was this an excessive political consideration . I dont think it was, your honor. Whether the court may like it or not, this is the norm for states where one party receives more than 60 of the vote in congressional elections, those states have a lineup if thats right, then your defense is not really that we cant tell the difference between excessive and nonexcessive. Under measure this is excessive, isnt it . You only need 10,000 votes to do the population measure
Reverse and vacate for three reasons. The First Amendment retaliation test that was adopted fails to provide a manageable standard because it does not give courts and legislators the means to distinguish between excessive political consideration and those that have been deemed constitutionally acceptable. Was this a political consideration . I dont think it is, your honor. This is the norm where states receive one party receives more than 60 of the vote and congressional elections. If that is right in your defense is not really we cant tell the difference between and nonexcessive. To doly need 10,000 votes the population measure. Moved 66,000kers republicans out of the district, flips the composition of the district from 47 republicans and 36 democrats to 45 democrats. Effectively insuring the republicans will never win this seat again, and maryland, which has 35 republicans is going to have one Republican House member for the foreseeable future. How is that not excessive . We assume i
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This is cnn Breaking News good morning made, this sunday and have recovered and we begin with this Breaking News moments ago in russia, the last polls closed following a threeday president ial election. With no genuine opposition candidates appearing on the ballot. The outcome was never in doubt. Vladimir putin is expected to win the vote that will keep his grip on power through 2030. He has already, as russias longestserving ruler since soviet dictator joseph stalin, weve got full coverage for you. Cnns Matthew Chance is in moscow and Fred Pleitgen is in berlin. Matthew, you first despite the lack of opposition, there were there any acts of defiance today were yet to happen. In fact, of the course of the past three days when voting has been taking place has been a surprisingly high level of acts of defiance, disruption at Polling Stations, and things like that. Youve got to remember, russia is a country where public displays of dissent and criticism of the kremlin cant have extremely
Welcome back. Thank you very much. How was the holiday . Very sunny. I think i timed it quite well. Ive missed this wet patch that everybodys been experiencing ive come experiencing and now ive come back are you . Back to sunshine. Where are you . Of france. Yeah. South of france. Yeah. South of france. Yeah. Its lovely. Yeah. Really nice. Can you imagine . And you were just saying that you were busy boozing the flight last night. Well, i had glass of well, i had had a glass of wine, of course, on a wine, but, of course, on a flight, you have to have a little mini bottle. Oh, and it was about 6 00 in the evening. I thought would having thought everyone would be having a drink, but maybe everyone had had on their holidays. Had too much on their holidays. And was drinking and it seemed i was drinking alone flight home. Alone on the flight home. Yeah. How many bottles did you have . No, just the one. Just the one i was working on. Getting the cider. Might getting the cider. I might not dr