And in further Republican power grabs...KY (ETA: and GA too)

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Kentucky (removing power from the AG):

Now, knowing that Beshear has been an effective check on the governor, Republican state legislators are trying to strip his office of authority.

In February, the Kentucky House of Representatives introduced HB 281, which changes the rules for how the Attorney General and some other officials go about hiring outside attorneys. It was sold as a bipartisan pro-transparency reform, but some observers argued it was an underhanded ploy to limit Beshear’s power.

And now Republicans in the Kentucky senate removed all doubt about the purpose of the bill by unexpectedly proposing new language in the Judiciary Committee. The modified version of the bill would completely strip the Attorney General of power to represent the Commonwealth of Kentucky in most civil cases, in any state or federal court, and instead give that power to lawyers serving at the pleasure of the governor:

www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/07/georgia_republicans_pass_racial_gerrymander.html?utm_content=inf_534_2641_2&wpsrc=socialedge&tse_id=INF_d394a3c0036a11e78c985b6a21c9be24

Georgia (gerrymandering the hell out of the state):

As Aaron Gould Sheinin notes in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the gerrymandering bill was introduced with no prior notice and passed in just two days. Its Republican sponsors didn’t even bother to inform Rep. Sheila Jones, a Democrat, about it—despite the fact that it takes two (predominantly white) precincts from her district and gives her two (predominantly black) precincts in return. Republican Rep. Rich Golick will receive Jones’ white precincts. He, along with several other recipients of white-majority precincts, has seen his margins of victory narrow in recent years, hence the desire for more white voters.

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Fuck Bevin.