Above: This Richard Nixon pose is not going to impress voters. Governor Doug Ducey has consistently said that he is not interested in running for U.S. Senate when he terms out of office in 2022. He has fantasies about running for president in 2024. We have been over this ground. It had been widely assumed … Read more
A Last-Minute Add to The Stimulus Bill Was Meant to Restrict State Tax Cuts so that states could not steal COVID Relief funds from the recipients Congress deemed deserving of aid and use the federal funds to subsidize tax cuts for the usual suspects, i.e., corporations and the wealthy. A last-minute change in the $1.9 … Read more
The headlines from Supreme Court reporters for the Supreme Court arguments of two Arizona cases on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act on Tuesday appear foreboding: Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog, Majority appears poised to uphold Arizona voting rules. Nina Totenberg at NPR, Supreme Court Seems Ready To Uphold Restrictive Voting Laws. Adam Liptak at … Read more
Paul Blumenthal writes at the Huffington Post, Democrats’ Top Priority Is To Reform Elections. Will It Be The Bill To Break The Filibuster? Congressional Democrats are pushing a sweeping package of voting rights, gerrymandering, election, campaign finance and ethics reforms, called the For the People Act. It’s listed as H.R. 1 in the House and … Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court heard the legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act aka “Obamacare” a week after Election Day in November. A collection of Republican state attorneys general relied on the bogus legal theory of inseverability, claiming that since the GOP tax act of 2017 repealed the individual mandate in an act of political sabotage, … Read more