The Destruction of the Supreme Court

    As my reading pile diminished, I asked my housemate who works in a still operating library to bring me home a pile of books to keep me busy. One of the books she brought me was  Supreme Inequality:  The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for A More Unjust America,Adam Cohen, Penguin Press, NY, 2020. … Read more

Tucson Judge Scott Rash CONFIRMED To Arizona’s U.S. District Court Bench

UPDATE, 5/19/20, 9:40am: Pima County Superior Court Judge Scott Rash was elevated to a lifetime position on Arizona’s U.S. District Court Bench this morning, as the Senate voted overwhelmingly, 74-20, to confirm him. Both of Arizona’s Senators supported his confirmation. Rash is 57 years old and has been the presiding Family Court judge in Tucson. … Read more

Arizona House HHS online meeting

#COVID19: Should Grandma ‘Take One for the Team’? (video)

The House Health and Human Services Committee met on Thursday, May 14, to hear testimony from several California experts on opening up Arizona’s economy. The two primary presenters were scientists whose recent research shows that COVID19 infection in the population could be much more widespread in the population than we had thought and that the virus has been in … Read more

Some Baseball Players are Spoiled Brats

Tampa Bay Rays Pitcher Blake Snell should stick to what he does well which is throwing the baseball. Being a labor activist is not a talent he possesses. Last week, when news leaked that baseball owners would, because of declining revenues and a hoped-for abbreviated half-season schedule for 2020, ask for additional financial concessions from … Read more

The entire Republican Party apparatus is gearing up to suppress the vote in 2020

In 1982, the Republican Party agreed to a consent decree after Democrats sued it for activities at polling places that they said were aimed at suppressing the minority vote. The consent decree barred the organization from using voter challengers, poll watchers, i.e., the “National Ballot Security Task Force,” and vote caging plans to target and intimidate voters … Read more