Paul Waldman recently wrote, The right is done retreating in the culture war. It’s time to roll back rights. Republicans revealed a great deal about themselves during the confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court, little of it flattering. If you were paying close attention, you might have caught the signs … Read more
Every voter who casts a ballot would have their name and address published online by election officials under a proposal being backed by Republican legislators. The secretary of state would also have to say whether each voter cast their ballot early [the AZ GQP is currently suing to declare its own early voting laws unconstitutional] … Read more
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has already been confirmed three times for the federal judiciary by a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has more trial court experience than any sitting Supreme Court justice and more than any justice since Edward Sanford, who was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1923. Judge … Read more
Above: h/t Vox.com, Call it authoritarianism. Paul Waldman of the Washington Post writes, Republicans have a reimagined view of state power — one without constraint: If you thought the antiabortion vigilante law Texas Republicans passed last year was the most appalling abuse of legislative power you’d ever seen, I have some bad news for you. … Read more
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a report today on Extremism on the Ballot in 2022: The American political landscape one year after the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol reflects the yawning divides highlighted on that violent day and reveals the extent to which extremist beliefs have become part of the mainstream. As … Read more