In 2016, Senate Republicans stopped President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Antonin Scalia. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it was too close to the election and that the new president should choose the new supreme court judge. Despite nationwide outcry against this, the Supreme Court functioned … Read more
There is a historical parallel between the Southern segregationist Dixiecrats’ response to Brown v. Board of Education, requiring desegregation of the nation’s schools “with all deliberate speed,” to the Trump death cult of anti-science, anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers response to President Joe Biden’s modest plan to mandate Covid-19 vaccines to get control of the deadly Coronavirus pandemic. … Read more
Republicans have spent weeks and employed multiple levels of parliamentary procedures to ram Senator Cathi Herrod’s … er … Senator Nancy Barto’s fetal personhood bill through both houses … twice. SB1457 died in the Senate earlier in April, but the Republicans brought the zombie bill back to life for a do-over. SB1457 inserts BIG government … Read more
The Arizona Republic reported Arizona lawmaker proposes ‘homicide by abortion’ bill; doctors and patients could be charged with murder: An Arizona lawmaker known for his hard-line stance on abortion has introduced legislation requiring prosecutors to charge women who opt to end their pregnancies — and the doctors who help them do it — with homicide. Rep. Walt … Read more
Do not despair in the darkness of the moment, keep the faith and go vote! Democrats are on the cusp of an historic victory that can usher in a new progressive era in American history. Morning in America is coming (heh, heh). A couple of good op-eds on this point for your perusal. First, Jennifer … Read more