Moderate Conservative Justices Question Arizona’s Voter Suppression Laws
March 5, 2021
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New Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh appear to have formed a moderately conservative bloc that could strike down Arizona’s voter suppression laws, judging from oral arguments on March 2 and prior cases the Justices have tried this term. “Why use voting restrictions that burden minority voters disproportionately?” Roberts … Read more
FBI Is Investigating Whether ‘The Call Was Coming From Inside The House’
March 5, 2021
Update to January 6 MAGA/QAnon Insurrection: Was The Call Coming From Inside The House? Some new developments. POLITICO reports that a Trump appointee was arrested in connection with the Capitol riot: The FBI on Thursday arrested Federico Klein, a former State Department aide [serving as a special assistant in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs], … Read more
AZ Jim Crow Legislators Wants To Limit Your Constitutional Right To Citizens Initiatives
March 5, 2021
The National Conference of State Legislatures explains Supermajority Vote Requirements: Most states require a simple majority vote to pass an initiative measure, whether statutory or constitutional in nature. All states except Delaware also require a vote of the people to pass a constitutional amendment. In most states, the initiative constitutional amendment process is not subject … Read more
Disappointing and Surprising: All Senate Republicans and Eight Democrats Vote Against Raising the Minimum Wage to $15.00
March 5, 2021
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It was not surprising that the Bernie Sanders attempt to put the $15.00 Minimum Wage Increase into the Senate version of the American Rescue Plan failed. All the Republicans were going to vote against it and Democrats Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin were on the record saying they would not support it. What is surprising … Read more
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) Destroys Republican Nonsense About The COVID-19 Relief Bill
March 5, 2021
I couldn’t get the C-Span video crop to work in this blog software, but luckily Senator Chris Murphy put the substance of his speech on his Twitter account.
Florida Scu…Governor Ron DeSantis Plays Highest Bidder with Vaccine Distribution
March 4, 2021
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Most people realized Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was a real piece of work before the COVID 19 Pandemic. His actions (or inactions more accurately) of denying the science and promoting individual choice during the height of the virus spread were indicative of an individual who put political gain over public service responsibility. Now, he is … Read more
Norm Ornstein: Reform The Filibuster To Its Former Requirements
March 4, 2021
Political Scientist Norm Ornstein says if Democrats can’t kill the filibuster, because of recalcitrant Democrats, they can still gut it with reforms. Democrats can’t kill the filibuster. But they can gut it. (excerpt): Progressives’ anger at Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his caucus, who use the filibuster to block every initiative they can, is … Read more
With Friends Like These: Moderate Democrats Weaken The COVID-19 Relief Bill, To What Gain?
March 4, 2021
This is what Sen. Joe Manchin’s demands for “bipartisanship” with a Republican Party with no intentions to ever negotiate in good faith has produced so far on the COVID-19 Relief bill: Democrats negotiating against themselves in a compulsive desire to signal moderation in a futile attempt to appease bad faith Republicans. First Rule of Negotiation: never … Read more
