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SCOTUS Watch: Decision Gives President Biden The Opportunity To Fire Trump Appointees
June 24, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court has had a fixation on executive branch appointment powers to federal agencies in recent years. You may recall that In 2020, in a 5-4 decision in Seila Law v. CFPB, a case in which the petitioner challenged the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Supreme Court agreed with the … Read more
Tucson Mayor Regina Romero Happy with City Budget and State Assistance to Help Clean and Reopen TARP
June 24, 2021
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This has been a good week for the people of Tucson. First, Governor Doug Ducey and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality have announced the allocation of two million dollars toward accelerating the cleanup and reopening of the Tucson Airport Remediation Plant (TARP.) It is the second allotment from the state designed to help the … Read more
SCOTUS Watch: Chief Justice Roberts Creates New Property Law To Undermine Government Regulation of Business (Updated)
June 23, 2021
In the second long anticipated U.S. Supreme Court decision today, the six conservative Justices on the Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid held that California’s access regulation, which gives union organizers the right to enter the property of agricultural employers for a certain amount of time, constitutes a per … Read more
Michigan Debunks The Big Lie Election Theft Conspiracy Theory
June 23, 2021
The Arizona Senate has embarrassed itself and the state of Arizona with its shitshow of a GQP sham “fraudit” of Maricopa County ballots by an unqualified QAnon conspiracy theorist promoting the Big Lie that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. It is just one big grift of the simple-minded fools who are members of … Read more
Arizona Senate Republicans Pass a Budget for the Dark Ages
June 23, 2021
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Fellow blogger and mentor Larry Bodine may be right when he said, after learning the depressing details of the budget the Arizona Senate Republicans passed this morning, “we’re doomed.” We definitely will be if we do not stay engaged and fight back. Political polarization and fringe tribalism in Arizona has come to a point where: … Read more
SCOTUS Watch: The ‘Cursing Cheerleader’ Wins First Amendment Free Speech Case
June 23, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court decided four cases today, reducing the number of pending cases to eight (I expect four on Friday, and the last four on Monday). The much anticipated “cussing cheerleader” case was decided in her favor, consistent with the Court’s previous First Amendment free speech precedents, i.e., Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School … Read more
Lawrence O’Donnell Trashes Sen. Sinema’s Uninformed Op-Ed On The Filibuster
June 23, 2021
From 1989 to 1995, Lawrence O’Donnell served as a legislative aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY). From 1989 to 1991, he served as senior advisor to Moynihan. From 1992 to 1993, he was staff director of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, then chaired by Senator Moynihan, and from 1993 … Read more
Phoenix had Six Consecutive Days of 115 Degrees or Higher
June 22, 2021
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The Southwest is going through a tremendous heatwave. Record high temperatures are being set in California, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, and Arizona. Utility regulators in Texas and California are counseling homeowners to conserve their air conditioning output because rolling blackouts may occur if they do not. Wildfires like those in the Payson area are being caused … Read more
