Game of Throwns

• Mike Lux (Crooks & Liars) on the Hillary he knows.
• North Carolina Voter Suppression law overturned by Federal court. (Daily Kos, via AlterNet.)  It seems that

  Crucially, the appeals court found that the legislation, which created a strict voter ID requirement, ended same-day registration, out-of-precinct voting, and pre-registration, was “passed with racially discriminatory intent.” And unlike recent rulings against new voter ID law in Texas and Wisconsin, which only ameliorated the impact of those laws, this decision blocks North Carolina’s entire voter ID measure.

  Emphasis mine, added. 
• Zandar has more to say about this ruling.

  the 4th Circuit found that this was deliberate racism on the part of North Carolina Republicans, designed specifically to limit black turnout. Practices like analyzing voter data to see that black voters took advantage of the first week of early voting in the state, and then Republicans specifically eliminating the first week of early voting. This isn't something that was being done in the state's dark past or during Jim Crow, this happened two years ago after Republicans took over the state in 2010 in the backlash against a black president winning the state in 2008.

• Sometimes the good guys win.