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We cover a few "sorta victories" as voters head to the polls in eight states (CA, AL, IA, MS, MT, NJ, NM and SD) on Tuesday, as reports are already surfacing of problems at the polls in South Dakota and in Los Angeles. A "sorta victory" for seven Twitter users who successfully sued the President for blocking them on Twitter \u2013 they were unblocked even as the Dept. of Justice appealed the court's ruling. A \u201csorta victory\u201d for Alabama voters, after an Alabama corporate media outlet finally reported, albeit weakly, on the story of AL Sec. of State John Merrill blocking folks on Twitter who point out his factual errors as the state's top election official \u2013 just hours before voters headed to the polls with Merrill himself on the ballot. In Arizona, a \u201csorta victory\u201d as state elections officials signed a consent decree requiring them to allow tens of thousands of registered voters who failed to provide \u201cproof of citizenship\u201d onto the voting rolls for federal races, but will still result in thousands being disallowed from voting in state and local contests. A new U.S. Supreme Court ruling gave a "sorta victory" to both anti-gay bigots and civil rights advocates in the case of a Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex couple's wedding reception. Slate legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern explains how Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority, tries to "have his cake and eat it too," and how despite ostensibly siding with the baker on rather dubious religious freedom grounds, the decision also appears to strengthen the existing authority of states to bar discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Stern also explains a second ruling in which the court rejected the Trump Administration's attempt to punish ACLU attorneys \u2013 this one a complete victory, not just a "sorta" one. Plus Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report'.