The situation at our Southern border is horrific. Innocent people who want to escape hardship and cruelty in their home countries and achieve the American Dream, and even those who have crossed into our country illegally, are being denied adequate and timely due process and subjected to harsh treatment that most thought was confined to … Read more
Last month the Phoenix New Times followed up on a Buzzfeed report on the Plain View Project, a database created by a team of Philadelphia attorneys in an effort to catalog bigotry and racism among police officers nationwide on social media. Phoenix Cops Bash Muslims, Call Black People Thugs in Shocking Facebook Posts: The database includes 282 … Read more
What took so damn long? This should have happened weeks ago. Mark Sumner at Daily Kos reports, House files lawsuit demanding Trump’s tax forms: On Tuesday, House Ways and Means Committee chairman Richard Neal filed a lawsuit against the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department, demanding the release of Donald … Read more
Following the first round of Democratic presidential primary debates, Republican “Never Trump” commentators who are counting on Democrats to save our democracy from their own abject failure to prevent the hostile takeover of the Republican Party by a grifter, con man and criminal who has successfully converted the GOP into an authoritarian personality cult of … Read more
It has been quite a reactionary couple of weeks for the four members of Arizona’s Republican House Delegation. In unison, Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Debbie Lesko, and David Schweikert all thought the best way to protect our federal election system was to vote against measures designed to secure them. Hopefully, their constituents will have an … Read more