Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles recently did a post he titled “It’s Back to The Future with Trump’s 2020 campaign.” Actually, I think the more accurate movie analogy for Trump and his MAGA supporters is the political allegory Pleasantville (1998). As Roger Ebert described it: The movie opens in today’s America, which we have been taught … Read more
Democrats have introduced several measures to amend the Constitution to abolish the Electoral College this year, see H.J.Res.7 (Introduced 01/03/2019), S.J.Res.16 (Introduced 03/28/2019), and on Tuesday S.J.Res.17 (Introduced 04/02/2019) by Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), Dianne Feinstein (D-California) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D- N.Y.). Senators To Introduce Amendment Abolishing Electoral College: Abolishing the Electoral … Read more
So our authoritarian wannabe tinpot dictator suggested during a press gaggle on Tuesday that he wants to “get rid of judges” who disagree with his autocratic executive orders. ‘Authoritarian nutjob’: Outrage grows as Trump proclaims ‘we have to get rid of judges’ in latest border threat: “We need to get rid of chain migration, we … Read more
Moveon.org and a number of its partners are calling for a National Day of Action on Thursday, April 4, to demand that Attorney General William Barr #ReleaseTheReport if he fails to meet the deadline set by Congressional leaders of Tuesday, April 2. Barr has offered an alternate timeline for a redacted version of the report—but … Read more
Today is the deadline congressional committees have set for Attorney General William Barr to produce the full unredacted Mueller Report to congressional committees. Barr will certainly not comply with congressional demands. As Michael Bryan pointed out in his post about our constitutional crisis, Barr keeps adding categories of information he intends to redact from the … Read more