By Blog For Arizona’s Authors Mike Bryan, David Gordon and Pamela Powers Hannley Here is the full video of the event: https://youtu.be/cX7hni-zGD8 Here is the debate transcript. Reactions from Michael Bryan: The first and primary takeaway of the second debate was to totally throw open the race: All of the leading candidates are now on … Read more
By Michael Bryan, Larry Bodine, Pam Powers Hannley and David Gordon. First of all, if you missed it and want to recap in prose: here’s the debate transcript. Here’s the full video: Comments by Michael Bryan: If you ask me, the debate accomplished a few things: It moved forward the debate on immigration and refugees. Julian … Read more
Back in early May, the Trump administration asked the court to strike down all of Obamacare: The Trump administration filed a motion in opposition to the entire Affordable Care Act aka “Obamacare” on Wednesday, arguing in a federal appeals court that the signature Obama-era legislation was unconstitutional and should be struck down. Trump Administration Files Formal Request … Read more
Piling more bad news on top of bad news from the U.S. Supreme Court, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today agreed to clear the Senate’s version of emergency border aid package for strapped federal agencies dealing with the migrant humanitarian crisis, “jettisoning the House’s strict controls on the $4.6 billion in a stinging defeat. In Defeat, Pelosi … Read more
I’m going to take today’s decisions out of order, and review them by relevance instead. As I expected, the two partisan gerrymandering cases (Lamone v. Benisek and Rucho v. Common Cause) were combined together into a single opinion. The court has for years avoided addressing the issue of partisan gerrymandering, with former Justice Kennedy suggesting that … Read more