Will the Supreme Court Resurrect Jim Crow Election Laws?
The Supreme Court will hear two cases on Tuesday, March 2, involving whether Arizona’s ballot-harvesting law and out-of-precinct policy discriminate against Hispanics, Native Americans, and African Americans. The Court will use Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965 by Lyndon Johnson, to ascertain whether ballot harvesting and “out of precinct” policies discriminated … Read more
Action Alert: HR 1 For The People Act Is Up For A Vote Next Week
Roll Call reports, “With House Democrats poised to pass their 791-page campaign finance, elections and ethics overhaul as soon as next week, outside groups that support the measure are turning to the Senate.” House set to move on elections overhaul as outside advocates focus on Senate: Left-leaning organizations such as Indivisible, Public Citizen, Democracy 21 … Read more
Senate Parliamentarian Rules Minimum Wage Provision Currently Written as it is Can Not be Included in the American Rescue Plan
In a not surprising development, the Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that the proposed federal minimum wage increase to $15.00 an hour could not be included in the American Rescue Plan-COVID 19 relief bill as written. Reaction among Democrats has been quick. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki issued a statement for the Biden/Harris Administration … Read more
Mayors Gallego and Romero Want Phoenix and Tucson to be Involved in Vaccine Distribution
Both Phoenix and Tucson Mayors Kate Gallego and Regina Romero feel that local cities and towns like theirs should be involved in distributing Coronavirus vaccines to their residents. While visiting Matthew Henson Village, a senior living facility, Mayor Gallego said that state-sponsored vaccination sites like the one at the Cardinals facility in Glendale are not … Read more
It Is Impossible To Work With Seditious Insurrectionists – Spare Me The ‘Bipartisanship’ Nonsense
As Jennifer Rubin says: [Republicans’] attitude toward nominations is symptomatic of their entire approach to politics: It is about theater, about feeding right-wing media (which loves nothing better than to paint progressives as extreme radicals) and never about governance, let alone bipartisanship. If you have been watching any congressional hearings this week, this has become … Read more
Republican Senators and Waffling Democrats need to Cut the Crap and Confirm all of Joe Biden’s and Kamala Harris’s Nominees.
In 1947, legendary Republican Senator and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Arthur Vandenburg, according to David McCullough’s renowned work Truman, sped the confirmation of George C. Marshall as Secretary of State in one day. This action occurred at a time when Cold War Tensions were rising between the United States and the Soviet … Read more
The Long Arm Of The Law Is Closing In On The Trump Crime Family
The Manhattan District Attorney already had a team of forensic auditors working on the Trump Organization’s tax documents and financial records previously turned over by Trump’s former “fixer,” Michael Cohen, and his niece Mary Trump. They already know what they are looking for in the records to be turned over by Trump’s accounting firm Mazars … Read more
Arizona List is Working Now to Turn Arizona Blue in 2022
[fusion_youtube id=”SLoz0G-ji_0″ alignment=”” width=”650″ height=”” autoplay=”false” api_params=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” css_id=””][/fusion_youtube] Arizona is “trending Democratic” and a Democratic pro-choice woman is just waiting to announce that she’ll run for Governor in 2022, according to Claire Knipe, Political Director for Arizona List. “The governor’s race will be messy because there will be an open primary,” she said … Read more
