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I was thinking about how the Senate is heavily tilted in the favor of Republicans (representation based on statehood and not population, which tends to favor rural/white/right-wing people). In turn, since the Senate votes on the justices, this also biases the supreme court against democrats/urban/educated/minorities/non-racists.
It's a month old, but Nate Silver does a great job breaking it down here:
The Senate’s Rural Skew Makes It Very Hard For Democrats To Win The Supreme Court
I don’t have a particularly strong take on how the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will affect either the presidential election or the race for control of the U.S.…fivethirtyeight.com
How does this hack have a job after 2016?