Echoes of Tea Party candidate Todd Akin, the 2012 Republican Senate nominee from Missouri, who provoked ire across the political spectrum by saying that in instances of what he called “legitimate rape,” women’s bodies somehow blocked an unwanted pregnancy. Senate Candidate Provokes Ire With ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comment. A decade later, Republican MAGA candidates have only grown … Read more
The headline at the Arizona Republic reads, without any hint of irony, that Mark Meadows to headline election conference in Phoenix (behind a pay wall). Seriously? This insurrection Coup Plotter is one of the rare cases of actual voter fraud. The New York Times reports, Mark Meadows Spread Trump’s Voter Fraud Claims. Now His Voting … Read more
National Democratic leaders have drafted a proposal that could significantly reshape the party’s presidential nominating process and put an end to Iowa’s prized first-in-the-nation caucuses — be still my heart. Please, oh please be true! If I never again hear the words “Iowa Caucus” it will be too soon. The Des Moines Register reports, National Democratic leaders … Read more
Above: h/t Vox.com, Call it authoritarianism. Paul Waldman of the Washington Post writes, Republicans have a reimagined view of state power — one without constraint: If you thought the antiabortion vigilante law Texas Republicans passed last year was the most appalling abuse of legislative power you’d ever seen, I have some bad news for you. … Read more
The New York Times reported last week, Judge Blocks Effort to Disqualify Cawthorn from Ballot as ‘Insurrectionist’: A judge on Friday blocked a novel electoral challenge that sought to disqualify Representative Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina from running for re-election by labeling him an insurrectionist, issuing an equally novel order that invoked a post-Civil War … Read more