The U.S. House of Representatives is reportedly scheduled for a floor vote Friday on HR 5, the Equality Act (.pdf), legislation that seeks to ban anti-LGBT discrimination by amending the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act to ban anti-LGBT discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, jury service, education, federal programs and credit. … Read more
Josh Marshall succinctly frames the Trump lawyers’ argument: I want to point out the common argument the President’s personal lawyers (yesterday) and the White House Counsel’s office (in today’s letter) are now making. They argue that the Congress has no legitimate oversight role with respect to the executive branch at all, a stunning argument that … Read more
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I have from time to time referred to our radical Republican-controlled Arizona legislature as the “Alabama of the West.” Alabama is without question the most ignorant and regressive backwater in America, and has been forever, but occasionally the Arizona legislature gives Alabama a challenge to its title. This week Alabama reclaimed its title. Just as … Read more
With over 150 enthusiastic supporters cheering on at the AZ CoWork in Scottsdale, Anita Malik, 2018 Democratic Nominee for Arizona’s Sixth Congressional District (CD6). entered the 2020 race for the House seat currently held by Republican Representative David Schweikert. She promises to finish what she started in the 2018 campaign and create innovative and … Read more