President Joe Biden held his first Press Conference today and defended his Administrations’s policy focus and positions on issues like his Reelection, COVID Vaccinations and Relief, Immigration, the Filibuster, working with Republicans, Voting Rights, Afghanistan, North Korea, China, and Infrastructure. During the question and answer session, the President: Declared that he believes he would run … Read more
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is the conservative uncle you have to tolerate at Thanksgiving dinner because he is family. In 2004, when Joe Manchin was running for governor of West Virginia, he received an “A+” rating from the NRA and received the group’s endorsement when running for governor. He won the 2004 gubernatorial election by … Read more
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, and Burt Neuborne, the Norman Dorsen Professor of Civil Liberties at the New York University School of Law, make a fascinating argument for declaring the anti-democratic Senate filibuster rule unconstitutional in the LA Times. The filibuster is unconstitutional. Here’s how Vice President Harris can take it … Read more
The House has already passed H.R. 1, The For The People Act, now the Senate is preparing to move on its version of the bill, S. 1, The For the People Act, next week. To do so means having to directly confront the anti-democratic Jim Crow era filibuster rule, which the “Grim Reaper” of the … Read more
The House voted 225-206 Wednesday evening to pass a sweeping labor rights bill aimed at making it easier for workers to unionize and provide them increased collective bargaining rights in workplace disputes. Only one Democrat, conservative Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), voted against this bill. Five Republicans surprisingly voted for this pro-labor union organizing bill: Brian … Read more