If elections are races, 2020 is a triathlon. The first, grueling leg feels like a marathon itself: win the vote. For most races, the popular vote is enough. For the presidential race, of course, the excruciating math of the electoral college comes into play. Winning a majority of votes, or electoral college votes, in a … Read more
The New York Times reports that Republicans Clash on Stimulus as Trump Says ‘Go Big’ and McConnell Demurs: President Trump clashed with his own party on Thursday over a stimulus package to stabilize the economy, calling for a big-spending plan of the kind envisioned by Democrats even as the top Republican leader declared that such … Read more
The Women’s March will return to the nation’s capital and to hundreds of cities across the country on Saturday. Women’s March will bring thousands of marchers to D.C. and cities nationwide this weekend: Thousands of people will take to the streets in the middle of a pandemic to protest the Supreme Court nomination of Amy … Read more
In an extraordinary dissenting opinion, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Karen Nelson Moore called out the Republican corruption of the federal courts in support of the “concentrated effort” of GOP voter suppression. (h/t Election Law Blog). Judge Moore was appointed to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1995 by President Bill Clinton. She graduated … Read more
An interesting exchange occurred on CNN on Tuesday between anchor Wolf Blitzer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Please watch the exchange by clicking the below link. The reader is obviously free to judge for themselves what they see but it seemed that Wolf Blitzer appeared to lay the blame for no new COVID 19 relief bill … Read more