Professor Laurence Tribe Has Sound Advice For His Former Student, Merrick Garland
June 30, 2022
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell asked Harvard Law professor what arguments he would present to his former student, Attorney General Merrick Garland, as the “legal highlights” of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony. Professor Tribe used the opportunity to address Merrick Garland directly and expalin to him why Donald Trump and his co-conspirator Coup Plotters must be prosecuted. Merrick Garland and
Ketanji Brown Jackson Sworn In As Associate Justice Of Supreme Court
June 30, 2022
NBC News reports, Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as first Black woman on the Supreme Court: Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice Thursday, making her the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court. Jackson, a former public defender and federal appeals court judge, was sworn in during a small
Liz Cheney: ‘Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution’
June 30, 2022
It is a binary choice: you cannot do both. Period. Rep. Liz Cheney spoke at the Reagan Library for its “A Time For Choosing” speaker series, and she held nothing back in criticizing her fellow Republicans. (So much for Reagan’s 11th Commandment.) The Washington Post reports, Liz Cheney says Republicans face a choice: Trump or
SCOTUS Watch Update: Activist Radical Republican Court Signals It Will Endorse The ‘Independent State Legislature’ Theory To Allow Republicans To Steal The 2024 Election
June 30, 2022
The “clean up” orders list is out and it is bad news from this activist radical Republican Supreme Court. via GIPHY The Court has granted cert in MOORE v. HARPER (21-1271), the redistricting case from North Carolina in which the Court denied an application for stay earlier this year pending the filing and disposition of a
When It Comes to Autonomous Vehicles, It’s Time for Washington, DC, to Catch Up to Arizona
June 30, 2022
Mark Cardenas served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Late last month, Arizona Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly joined 10 Democratic colleagues in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). The letter urged the agency to develop a regulatory framework to foster and support autonomous vehicles. In their letter,
Democrats’ Working Class Problem – Especially Among Hispanics
June 30, 2022
Very often in Democratic politics in AZ you hear a common assumption: that the Hispanic vote is another liberal voting block that we just need to mobilize to win. That is a faulty and dangerous assumption. We also need to persuade many Hispanic voters to come back to the Democratic Party. Ruy Teixeira of the
SCOTUS Watch: Radical Republican Court To The Planet: ‘Burn, Baby, Burn!’
June 30, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court announced its last two opinions this morning. The first opinion is West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, a 6-3 decision by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Gorsuch files a concurring opinion joined by Justice Alito. Justice Kagan dissents, joined by Justices Breyer and Sotomayor. The questions presented are whether the Republican-led states
NAACP STATE CONFERENCE RESPONSE TO DOBBS V. JACKSON’S WOMEN’S HEALTH
June 30, 2022
Below is the press release regarding the Dobbs decision from the Az State Conference NAACP. Wednesday June 29, 2022 Issued by: Charles Fanniel, NAACP Arizona State Conference President (602) 919-7371 | charlesrfanniel@yahoo.com PHOENIX, ARIZONA (June 29, 2022) – The Arizona State Conference NAACP joins with other organizations and most Arizonans to condemn the Supreme Court
