Political Calendar: Week of December 8, 2019
December 8, 2019
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North Korea warning: ‘it is entirely up to the US what Christmas gift it will select’
December 7, 2019
The next few weeks may be critical for US-North Korean diplomacy. North Korean missile and Kim Jong-un’s ‘Christmas gift’ decision: Talks with Donald Trump have not gone according to plan. Strict economic sanctions remain in place and it appears Washington is not going to budge despite Pyongyang’s insistence that they come up with another deal … Read more
House passes bill restoring the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act
December 7, 2019
Since the House of Representatives began its impeachment inquiry into potential abuses of power by Donald Trump, Trump and his Republican congressional defenders have repeatedly claimed it was making other legislation impossible. This is the alternate reality world of Republicans, i.e., lies and propaganda. The reality is House Democrats have passed nearly 400 bills. Trump … Read more
SCOTUS grants temporary stay in Trump financial documents case
December 7, 2019
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday put an administrative one-week hold on a lower court’s order for President Trump’s bank records to be turned over to Congress. Release of Trump’s Banking Records Delayed by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Justice Ginsburg serves as the circuit justice for the Second Circuit, which is based in New York, … Read more
Maricopa County Democrats to Hold Winter Convention on December 14.
December 6, 2019
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The Democratic National Committee has declared that Arizona will be one of the eight major battleground states in 2020. NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd has indicated that Maricopa County is one of five battleground counties their news organization will be watching as a barometer for where the voters are leaning for the 2020 … Read more
Is 2020 the Year the Arizona ELL Law Comes off the Books?
December 6, 2019
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Will the political stars finally align to repeal the law (Proposition 203) mandating English Only Instruction for students with limited English Proficiency in 2020? Proposition 203, passed in 2000, has not yielded the hoped-for outcomes as English learners have fallen behind in both English acquisition and mastery of other core and elective subjects children cannot … Read more
Oh, SNAP! Welfare for large corporate agribusiness, but not food for the working poor (Updated)
December 5, 2019
Bloomberg News recently reported Trump’s $28 Billion Trade War Bailout Is Overpaying Farmers: President Donald Trump’s $28 billion farm bailout may be paying many growers more than the trade war with China has cost them. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s calculations overshot the impact of the trade conflict on American soybean prices, according to six … Read more
