Daily Links: 01/23/18 – Pennsylvania top court throws out gerrymandered district maps

Pennsylvania’s gerrymandered 7^th District

• Pennsylvania Supreme Court throws out the state’s Republican-favoring gerrymandered district maps ^[pictured], giving the legislature a month to redraw them.
  (via Joe.My.God.)

• Montana governor signs executive order blocking ISPs from securing state contracts if they violate net neutrality.

• New Jersey’s Asbury Park Press has an in-depth, multi-part investigation into state police departments that allow rogue cops to abuse and murder citizens without losing their jobs.
  (via @davidminpdx; retweet by @radleybalko)

• Vermont kinda, sorta, becomes the ninth US state to legalize marijuana, but Vermonters still can’t sell it or smoke it in public.
  (via retweet by @radleybalko)

• Big Horn County, Montana lawyer announces a “crackdown” on pregnant women who consume drugs or alcohol, intends to issue restraining orders and then imprison women who violate them.
  (via @radleybalko)

• Preventing felons from voting is one of the most common and uncontroversial acts of voter suppression, and it shouldn’t be. Now Florida will vote on restoring voting rights to over 1.5 million citizens in November.
  (via @FullFrontalSamB)

• The sham-tastic Republican-controlled House Science Committee wants to investigate a scientist for writing in support of science.

• Finally, the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins lays bare the religious-Right’s hypocrisy: Evangelicals are happy to ignore all of Trump’s lying and adultery so long as he supports their agenda.
  (via @HashtagGriswold; retweeted by @Popehat)

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Edit (01/31/18 @ 6:46 AM ET): Fixed a typo.