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Corporate Accountability Finally Comes To Texas To Oppose Jim Crow 2.0 Voter Suppression Bills
May 4, 2021
In a Wall Street Journal column last week, Sen. Ted “Cancún” Cruz (R-TX) warned that CEOs opposing Republican threats to voting rights will be excluded from his party’s pay-to-play legislative operation — because they’re no longer conservative enough for the GOP. For example, Republicans will stop accepting donations in exchange for “looking the other way” … Read more
Democrats Should be Able to Beat the Party of the Big Lie and Reactionary Obstructionism in the 2022 Mid Terms
May 4, 2021
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With local, state, congressional, and gubernatorial candidates declaring their intentions to run and raise money for the 2022 midterm elections (even while final district lines have not been drawn yet,) it is not too early to start speculating if the Democratic Party can turn back the historical trend that the incumbent Presidents party mostly loses … Read more
U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee And New York AG Blow Up The NRA’s Fraudulent Bankruptcy
May 4, 2021
Years ago, one of my first jobs out of law school was working as an investigator for the bankruptcy trustee, handling Resolution Trust Corporation cases following the Savings & Loan scandal. So I can say with confidence that this is most unusual and rarely occurs. The New York Times reports, N.R.A. Leadership and Bankruptcy Assailed by … Read more
4 Ways to Fight For Voting Rights and Fair Elections
May 4, 2021
The Republican opera bouffe “audit” of Maricopa County ballots is attracting national attention now that Georgia and the major players there have gone silent. The issues raised in Georgia’s legislation are surely going to the courts there. Arizona’s situation is absolutely nuts. In the Legislature, the most damaging legislation that would torque a perfectly good … Read more
Sen. Joe Manchin Opposed to Washington, D.C. Statehood Without a Constitutional Amendment
May 3, 2021
Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution provides, in pertinent part: New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of … Read more
Parallel Universes
May 3, 2021
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The Arizona we have and the Arizona we want seem to bear no relationship to each other. What does that say about the state of our democracy? First, let’s look at the AZ we have. The Southern Poverty Law Center has released its 2020 “The Year in Hate and Extremism” report. https://www.splcenter.org/year-hate-and-extremism-2020 They count … Read more
Senate Prince of Darkness Mitch McConnell Can Take His Opening Bid on Infrastructure and Shove It
May 3, 2021
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Well, Democrats should hope Kyrsten Sinema, Joe Manchin, and other moderate Democrats that think they can get bipartisan support on an infrastructure-jobs plan through Congress was paying attention to remarks from Enemy of the People-Obstructionist in Chief-Legislative Grim Reaper-Moscow Mitch McConnell today. According to reporting by the Hill, the Senate Minority Leader made it perfectly … Read more
Redistricting Wars Head To Court Early
May 3, 2021
States are months away from getting the census data they need to draw new political maps, but courts are already filling up with lawsuits challenging the redistricting process. Politico reports, Delayed census data kicks off flood of redistricting lawsuits: One of the Democratic Party’s most prominent lawyers quickly filed three suits in states where neither Republicans … Read more
