Jonathan Gould, assistant professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law; Kenneth Shepsle, the George Markham professor of government at Harvard University; and Matthew Stephenson, the Eli Goldston professor of law at Harvard Law School, propose a creative solution to the anti-democratic Jim Crow relic Senate filibuster rule that even Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten … Read more
Georgia state troopers arrested Democratic state Rep. Park Cannon on Thursday after she knocked on Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s statehouse office door as he was signing a controversial elections bill into law in a closed-door ceremony. Georgia legislator arrested, pulled out of state Capitol as governor signs voting law: Video of the incident shows Cannon, who … Read more
Parodying the title of Sinclair Lewis’s famous work It Can’t Happen Here, the Lincoln Project’s new ad “Never Happens Here” warns that the country is being divided into a pro autocratic faction and a pro-Democratic-Republic one. Saying “we’re only one Presidential election from the end of America as we’ve known it,” the narrator goes on … Read more
The Lincoln Project is continuing its assault on the Republican Party with the new ad “Democracy.” Commenting that voters in 2020 elected Joe Biden President “with the most votes ever cast for a President in U.S. History,” the narrator pointed out that “most Republican leaders (Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Kelly Loeffler, and David Perdue) are refusing … Read more
I have said for years that the The Commission On Presidential Debates and the media should stop insulting the English language and our intelligence by calling what they do a “debate.” It is in no way a debate, and never has been. What happened last night was exponentially far worse than all preceding presidential “debates” … Read more